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Tibetan spiritual person the Dalai Lama, successful yellowish robe, is helped by attendant monks arsenic helium arrives to preside implicit an lawsuit during which Tibetan exiles prayed for his longevity, a time earlier his 90th birthday, successful Dharamshala, India, Saturday, July 5, 2025.(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
DHARAMSHALA – Tibetan spiritual person the Dalai Lama said that helium hopes to unrecorded until helium is implicit 130 years old, days aft helium laid retired a succession program by saying he plans to reincarnate aft his death.
The Dalai Lama, who is celebrating his 90th day connected Sunday, made these comments during a ceremonial organized by his followers to connection prayers for his agelong life.
“I person been capable to service the Buddha dharma and the beings of Tibet truthful acold rather well, and I anticipation to unrecorded implicit 130 years,” the Dalai Lama told thousands of followers who had gathered Saturday successful India's bluish municipality of Dharamshala.
Dharamshala has been the Dalai Lama's location successful exile since 1959 aft helium fled Tibet successful the aftermath of a failed uprising against Chinese rule. Since then, helium has sustained Tibet’s aspirations for greater autonomy nether Chinese Communist Party regularisation and mobilized Tibetans wrong and extracurricular China.
On Wednesday, the Dalai Lama said that he intends to reincarnate, paving the mode aft his decease for a successor to instrumentality connected a mantle stretching backmost 500 years. Tibetan Buddhists judge the Dalai Lama tin take the assemblage into which helium is reincarnated.
That announcement ended years of speculation that started erstwhile helium indicated that helium mightiness beryllium the past idiosyncratic to clasp the role.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual caput of Tibetan Buddhism besides said that the adjacent Dalai Lama should beryllium recovered and recognized arsenic per past Buddhist traditions, portion stressing that his bureau volition pb the search.
China views the Dalai Lama arsenic a separatist and has insisted that lone Beijing has the authorization to o.k. his successor.
Meanwhile, the exiled Tibetan assemblage of much than 20,000 radical successful Dharamshala is gearing up to observe the Dalai Lama’s day connected Sunday. His followers person enactment up elephantine posters and billboards crossed town, arsenic tens of thousands of radical are expected to be the event, including Buddhist leaders of assorted sects and followers from crossed the world.
Barbara Weibel, a U.S. national who has been pursuing Buddhism for much than 30 years, said she “had to beryllium present for this.”
"I privation this agelong beingness ceremonial to support him live arsenic agelong arsenic possible,” she said.
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