{"id":34638,"date":"2021-08-01T00:13:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/31\/tibet-and-china-clash-over-next-reincarnation-of-the-dalai-lama"},"modified":"2021-08-01T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:13:26","slug":"tibet-and-china-clash-over-next-reincarnation-of-the-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34638","title":{"rendered":"Tibet and China clash over next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual leader has mused that he may return as a woman. But his succession has turned into a political battle<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, during a meeting of Tibetan leaders in Dharamshala in India, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was asked about his reincarnation. Addressing the room of monks, religious teachers and Tibetan politicians, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2008\/aug\/27\/tibet.china1\" title=\"\">the Dalai Lama<\/a> asked them to look into his eyes. \u201cDo you think it\u2019s time now?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>It was a meeting that would end with the Tibetan leaders agreeing that the issue of reincarnation was one that would be decided only by the Dalai Lama himself. But China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/28\/china-confirms-peaceful-liberation-of-tibet-1951\" title=\"\">which annexed Tibet<\/a> in 1951 and has retained tight control over the region ever since, has other ideas. It insists that the choice of the next Dalai Lama lies only with China, and have even enshrined this right into Chinese law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/31\/tibet-and-china-clash-over-next-reincarnation-of-the-dalai-lama\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual leader has mused that he may return as a woman. But his succession has turned into a political battleA couple of years ago, during a meeting of Tibetan leaders in Dharamshala in India, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was asked about h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,211,50,1447,62,371,61,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-buddhism","category-china","category-dalai-lama","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tibet","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638\/revisions\/34639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}