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According to an official White Paper, the high lamas of Tibetan Buddhism will be chosen by the CCP
May 23 marked the 70th anniversary of the Seventeen Point Agreement, signed under duress on March 23, 1951 by the delegates of the Dalai Lama after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950.
For the May 23 anniversary, China has published yet another White Paper on Tibet. It uses the Seventeen Point Agreement to claim that the Tibetan delegates acknowledged in 1951 that Tibet had always been part of China. Even if they signed under Chinese pressures, this is a tendentious interpretation of the text.
And the Seventeen Point Agreement also stated that, “The central authorities will not alter the existing political system in Tibet. The central authorities also will not alter the established status, functions, and powers of the Dalai Lama. Officials of various ranks shall hold office as usual.”
Obviously, China did not respect that part of the Agreement.
Apart from repeating well-known historical lies, and painting a propaganda view of how happy and free the Tibetans are under the CCP, the White Paper insists that the officially atheistic Beijing regime should control which lamas should be authorized to reincarnate, and informs us that, “by 2020, 92 reincarnated Living Buddhas had been identified and approved” by the CCP.
The document announces that the next reincarnations of high lamas, including the Dalai Lama, will be selected by the CCP through the “Golden Urn” system. This is a method imposed in 1792 by the Qing Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799) through which the names of the candidates were introduced in a specially forged urn, and a lottery system was used. The system was used only between 1793 and 1825 for roughly half the major reincarnation searches and was heavily criticized because of Chinese manipulation.
Continued below.
The Chinese Communist Party is so wise and benevolent that it controls reincarnation » MercatorNet
According to an official White Paper, the high lamas of Tibetan Buddhism will be chosen by the CCP
May 23 marked the 70th anniversary of the Seventeen Point Agreement, signed under duress on March 23, 1951 by the delegates of the Dalai Lama after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950.
For the May 23 anniversary, China has published yet another White Paper on Tibet. It uses the Seventeen Point Agreement to claim that the Tibetan delegates acknowledged in 1951 that Tibet had always been part of China. Even if they signed under Chinese pressures, this is a tendentious interpretation of the text.
And the Seventeen Point Agreement also stated that, “The central authorities will not alter the existing political system in Tibet. The central authorities also will not alter the established status, functions, and powers of the Dalai Lama. Officials of various ranks shall hold office as usual.”
Obviously, China did not respect that part of the Agreement.
Apart from repeating well-known historical lies, and painting a propaganda view of how happy and free the Tibetans are under the CCP, the White Paper insists that the officially atheistic Beijing regime should control which lamas should be authorized to reincarnate, and informs us that, “by 2020, 92 reincarnated Living Buddhas had been identified and approved” by the CCP.
The document announces that the next reincarnations of high lamas, including the Dalai Lama, will be selected by the CCP through the “Golden Urn” system. This is a method imposed in 1792 by the Qing Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799) through which the names of the candidates were introduced in a specially forged urn, and a lottery system was used. The system was used only between 1793 and 1825 for roughly half the major reincarnation searches and was heavily criticized because of Chinese manipulation.
Continued below.
The Chinese Communist Party is so wise and benevolent that it controls reincarnation » MercatorNet
