EZReview - One Marshmallow But TWO Kids

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EZReview - July 3rd, 2025

The 14th Dalai Lama, also known as the head of the Gelug school, Tenzin Gyatso, is turning 90 this week. For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been living as a representative of Tibet's struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party rule, and has been exiled as an increasingly powerful Beijing has become ever more assertive in suppressing it.

On Wednesday, the Dalai Lama announced that he will have a successor after his death, and his office will have the sole authority to identify his reincarnation. However, the Chinese Communist Party insists that it holds the authority to approve the next Dalai Lama.

China has long maintained that Tibetans are free to practice their faith. But that faith is also the source of a centuries-old identity, which human rights groups say Beijing is slowly eroding. They claim that countless Tibetans have been detained for staging peaceful protests, promoting the Tibetan language, or even possessing a portrait of the Dalai Lama. Many Tibetans are concerned about the new laws governing the education of Tibetan children.

"I often say to the younger-generation Tibetans: We sometimes get spoiled because we are leaning on this very solid rock. One day, when the rock goes away, what are we going to do?" said Thupten Jinpa, the Dalai Lama's longtime translator, who assisted the leader in his latest memoir.

Good to be noticed, the Dalai Lama states that his successor will be born in the "free world" outside China, urging Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhists globally to reject any candidate selected by  Beijing.