hurricanemaxi Wed 24 Aug 2011, 11:17 amChina’s official Tibetan spiritual leader, the Panchen Lama, in a visit to the country’s northwest has told Tibetan Buddhists to obey the law in what analysts say is a government effort to undermine anti-Chinese protest and the exiled Dalai Lama.
The government-appointed lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, 21, made a 13-day visit from his home in Beijing to an ethnic Tibetan region and performed rituals at one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most prominent monasteries, Xinhua reported. The visit was part of China’s attempt to boost Norbu’s religious credentials for an eventual role in choosing a successor to Tibet’s main spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said D.S. Rajan, director of the independent Chennai Centre for China Studies in India.
With the Dalai Lama, 76, continuing his 50-year-old campaign for Tibetan autonomy from Chinese rule, “China’s government says it will choose his successor and the Panchen Lama traditionally has a voice” in that process, Rajan said in a phone interview yesterday. “They want to create a cooperative Tibetan religious leadership” to undermine anti-Chinese protests that have erupted each year since 2008 riots that were the deadliest in Tibet for two decades, Rajan said.
Since March, two Tibetan monks in Sichuan province have immolated themselves while others have demonstrated in favor of the Dalai Lama’s return to China, leading to police curfews and detentions of hundreds of monks, Tibetan exile groups say. Those protests are several hundred kilometers south of the area visited by Norbu.
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The government-appointed lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, 21, made a 13-day visit from his home in Beijing to an ethnic Tibetan region and performed rituals at one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most prominent monasteries, Xinhua reported. The visit was part of China’s attempt to boost Norbu’s religious credentials for an eventual role in choosing a successor to Tibet’s main spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said D.S. Rajan, director of the independent Chennai Centre for China Studies in India.
With the Dalai Lama, 76, continuing his 50-year-old campaign for Tibetan autonomy from Chinese rule, “China’s government says it will choose his successor and the Panchen Lama traditionally has a voice” in that process, Rajan said in a phone interview yesterday. “They want to create a cooperative Tibetan religious leadership” to undermine anti-Chinese protests that have erupted each year since 2008 riots that were the deadliest in Tibet for two decades, Rajan said.
Since March, two Tibetan monks in Sichuan province have immolated themselves while others have demonstrated in favor of the Dalai Lama’s return to China, leading to police curfews and detentions of hundreds of monks, Tibetan exile groups say. Those protests are several hundred kilometers south of the area visited by Norbu.
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