China has no theological foundation to select the following Dalai Lama, says US

China has no theological foundation to select the following Dalai Lama, in keeping with a best US diplomat, announcing that the Tibetan Buddhists have effectively picked their non secular chief for centuries.

“I travelled to Dharamshala, India to talk to the Tibetan neighborhood that have been assembled there in exile and to inform them that the United States is adverse to China choosing the following Dalai Lama,” Ambassador at Massive for World Non secular Freedom Samuel D Brownback informed newshounds on Tuesday throughout a convention name, recalling his talk over with to India in October.

“They’ve no proper to do this. They’ve no theological foundation to do this. The Tibetan Buddhists have effectively picked their chief for centuries, if now not longer, and they have got the correct to do this now,” he mentioned in line with a query.

Brownback mentioned the United States helps that non secular communities have the correct to select their very own management.

“That no doubt comprises the following Dalai Lama. So we’ve driven again in opposition to that. We’re going to proceed to chase away in opposition to that. We expect that’s totally flawed of the Chinese language Communist Party to claim that they have got that proper,” he mentioned.

The 14th Dalai Lama, now 85, has been residing in India ever since he fled Tibet in 1959 following a Chinese language crackdown on an rebellion by means of the native inhabitants. The Tibetan government-in-exile operates from Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh. Over 1,60,000 Tibetans are living in India.

Brownback accused China of one of the vital worst non secular persecution scenarios on this planet lately, if now not the worst. “It’ll now not assist them of their struggle on terrorism,” he mentioned, including, that the Chinese language are seeking to promote it to the sector that that is an effort to stop terrorism, however they’re going to create extra terrorists.

“The solution to terrorism isn’t locking up everyone. The solution to terrorism is non secular freedom, permitting other people to freely apply their religion, and so they received’t struggle you as a lot. If the Chinese language weren’t at warfare with religion, they’d have a extra open society, however they’d even have a extra glad citizenry that seeks to apply their religion and be left by myself and left in peace,” he mentioned.

He known as on China to forestall their warfare on religion, which may not be a success anyway, however in opposition to the Uyghurs, in opposition to the Tibetan Buddhists, in opposition to the Christian area church, in opposition to the Catholic Church, in opposition to Falun Gong.

“They’re persecuting all faiths. And the large person who we introduced lately was once this effort to truly chase away on the usage of era to create those digital police states to persecute non secular adherence. That is one thing they’ve achieved in Tibet, they’re doing in Xinjiang, and rolling out elsewhere of their nation. We need to prevent this from spreading to different international locations around the globe or spreading extra to different international locations around the globe,” Brownback mentioned.

(With inputs from PTI)

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