Dalai Lama ‘making a fool’ of Buddhism, writes Chinese official

China seems to taking a hard-line stance on exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, saying that he is “making a fool” of Tibetan Buddhism. The Chinese official wrote his propositions — he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful are not buying it.

Describing the spiritual guru as a violent separatist who fled into exile in India, China said that he failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 who denies instigating violence and says he only wants Tibet’s genuine autonomy. The debate of reincarnation is encouraged by the mutual hatred of the two sides and their rivalry for control over Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhists believes that on the death of the senior Lama his soul is reincarnated in the body of a child.

According to China, the tradition must go on and the country’s officially atheist communist leaders are well within their rights to approve his successor, as it has been inherited from China’s emperors.

However, the spiritual leader, who is hailed throughout the world irrespective of religions, suggested that his title could come to an end on his death which the China is not ready to accept. They accuse the Noble Peace Prize-winning monk of betrayal and also being disrespectful towards the Tibetan religion indicating that there might be no more incarnations.

In an article written by Zhu Weiqun, chairman of the ethnic and religious affairs committee of the top advisory body to China’s parliament, in Global Times, the writer stressed that Dalai Lama had to respect reincarnation’s religious and historic traditions.

“The Dalai Lama continues to proclaim his reincarnation is a ‘purely religious matter’ and something only he can decide, but he has no way to compel admiration from the faithful,” Zhu wrote for Global Times. “He’s been proclaiming he’ll reincarnate as a foreigner, as a bee, as a ‘mischievous blond girl’, or even proposing a living reincarnation or an end to reincarnation,” the writer added.

The writer known for his hard-line stance on Tibet and was part of the Beijing’s team that failed in their bids to talk to the representatives of the Noble prize winner.

It may be recalled that 21 years ago, after Dalai Lama named a boy in Tibet as the reincarnation of the previous Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, China put the child under house arrest and installed another.