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</html>";s:4:"text";s:38305:"For those of us in exile, I said that our priority must be resettlement and the continuity of our cultural traditions. Soon, Lhasa would fall to the invaders. Thinking the time was ripe for him to break his elected silence, His Holiness called a press conference on 20 June 1959 during which he formally repudiated the Seventeen-Point Agreement. [231][232][233] The 14th Dalai Lama had become the joint most popular world leader by 2013, (tied with Barack Obama), according to a poll conducted by Harris Interactive of New York, which sampled public opinion in the US and six major European countries. I'm going to Lhasa, I'm going to Lhasa, I would say. [192][193] The jade sheets of confirmation of authority says, You, the Dalai Lama, is the legal incarnation of Zhongkapa. Tibetan refugees have constructed and opened many schools and Buddhist temples in Dharamshala. "[27], According to the 14th Dalai Lama, long ago AvalokiteÅvara had promised the Buddha to guide and protect the Tibetan people and in the late Middle Ages, his master plan to fulfill this promise was the stage-by-stage establishment of the Dalai Lama theocracy in Tibet. On 17 March 1959 during a consultation with the Nechung Oracle, His Holiness was given an explicit instruction to leave the country. Two months later, in October, news reached Lhasa that an army of 80,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army had crossed the Drichu river east of Chamdo. Therefore, in 1674, the Kangxi Emperor, annoyed by the Fifth's less than full cooperation in quelling a rebellion against the Qing in Yunnan, ceased deferring to him as regards Mongol affairs and started dealing with them directly. [7] The traditional function of the Dalai Lama as an ecumenical figure, holding together disparate religious and regional groups, has been taken up by the present fourteenth Dalai Lama. [103] His influence grew so quickly that soon the monks at Sera Monastery also made him their Abbot[35] and his mediation was being sought to prevent fighting between political power factions. The elevation and the surrounding peaks combine to give it a highly changeable climate, and the continuous passage of cloud and wind creates a constantly moving pattern on the surface of the waters. [144][145] The 5th Dalai Lama wanted to use the golden seal of authority right away. “I remember feeling great sorrow when I realized what this really meant: Tibet must expect to face the entire might of Communist China alone”. [95] Their emptied lands were then awarded to other peoples. First, His Holiness’s immediate elder brother Lobsang Samden was already there. Buddhism . [222] He died after just 11 months, no reason for his sudden and premature death being given in these accounts, Shakabpa and Mullin's histories both being based on untranslated Tibetan chronicles. [101] While there, a Ming court envoy came with gifts and a request to visit the Wanli Emperor but he declined having already agreed to visit Eastern Tibet next. [75] The Gelugpa elders had to break with tradition and recognised him as Gendun Drup's tulku. [144] However, Lobzang Gyatsho noted that "The Tibetan version of the inscription of the seal was translated by a Mongolian translator but was not a good translation". [29][61] Tashilhunpo was destined to become 'Southern Tibet's greatest monastic university'[62] with a complement of 3,000 monks. In Central Asian Buddhist countries, it has been widely believed for the last millennium that Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva  of compassion, has a special relationship with the people of Tibet and intervenes in their fate by incarnating as benevolent rulers and teachers such as the Dalai Lamas. Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has advised his followers in China to chant a mantra to contain the threat posed by coronavirus, which has reportedly left over 100 dead. Before he was taken there, he changed his name, took the throne at the age of four, and finally became a monk at the age of six in the year 1940. [254], Lhamo Latso ... [is] a brilliant azure jewel set in a ring of grey mountains. You are granted the jade certificate of confirmation of authority and jade seal of authority, which you enshrine in the Potala monastery to guard the gate of Buddhism forever. In 1718 they were halted not far from Lhasa to be defeated and then ruthlessly annihilated by the triumphant Dzungars in the Battle of the Salween River. (Views expressed are his own) The author is a senior Indian journalist, photographer and a keen Tibet watcher for over four decades. [228] According to most Western journalistic sources[229][230] he was born into a humble family of farmers as one of 16 children. It is possible that it will soon have outlived its usefulness. [223] On the cause of his early death, accounts diverge. [96], Gongma Gyaltsen Palzangpo of Khyomorlung at Tolung and his Queen Sangyey Paldzomma also became his favourite devoted lay patrons and disciples in the 1530s and he visited their area to carry out rituals as 'he chose it for his next place of rebirth'. [220][221], In 1856 a child was born in south central Tibet amidst all the usual extraordinary signs. Passing through Amdo, he founded a second great monastery, Kumbum, at the birthplace of Tsongkhapa near Kokonor. [105], Meanwhile, Altan Khan, chief of all the Mongol tribes near China's borders, had heard of Sonam Gyatso's spiritual prowess and repeatedly invited him to Mongolia. “I am often asked whether I truly believe this. [184], According to Mullin, despite living through such violent times Kelzang Gyatso was perhaps 'the most spiritually learned and accomplished of any Dalai Lama', his written works comprising several hundred titles including 'some of Tibet's finest spiritual literary achievements'. The Imperial Residents in Tibet, after the first flush of zeal in 1750, grew less and less interested and efficient. [99] Gradually, he was shaping himself into a national leader. The use of the Chinese Golden Urn at the insistence of the Regent, who was later accused of being a Chinese lackey, confirmed this choice to the satisfaction of all. It would be no match for the recently victorious People's Liberation Army (PLA)”. He did recognize him in 1710, however, after sending a Qing official party to assist Lhazang in 'restoring order'; these were the first Chinese representatives of any sort to officiate in Tibet. This led eventually to the murder of Kanchenas in 1727 and a civil war that was resolved in 1728 with the canny Polhanas, who had sent for Qing assistance, the victor. The boy, Lhamo Thondup, was first taken to Kumbum monastery. If I resisted, he was to kill me. His spiritual accomplishments brought him lavish donations from devotees which he used to build and furnish new monasteries, to print and distribute Buddhist texts and to maintain monks and meditators. When his father died in 1398 his mother was unable to support the young goatherd so she entrusted him to his uncle, a monk at Narthang, a major Kadampa monastery near Shigatse, for education as a Buddhist monk. All documents sent for the country's important ceremonies must be stamped with this seal, and all the other reports can be stamped with the original seal. [82] He also stayed in Kongpo and Dagpo[83] and became known all over Tibet. At the beginning of November, about a fortnight before the day of His Holiness's investiture, his eldest brother had arrived in Lhasa. [6] The Dalai Lama was an important figure of the Geluk tradition, which was politically and numerically dominant in Central Tibet, but his religious authority went beyond sectarian boundaries. Because Amdo, the province where we were both born, and in which Kumbum is situated, lies so close to China, it had quickly fallen under control of the Communists. He spoke in mystical verses, quoted classical texts out of the blue[73] and said he was DromtÃ¶npa, an earlier incarnation of the Dalai Lamas. He has worked to overcome sectarian and other divisions in the exiled community and has become a symbol of Tibetan nationhood for Tibetans both in Tibet and in exile.[8]. The Oracle's decision was confirmed when a divination performed by His Holiness produced the same answer, even though the odds against making a successful escape seemed terrifyingly high. Then in 1705, he used the Sixth's escapades as an excuse to seize full control of Tibet. As he grew older, Karma Kagyu adherents, finding their sect was losing too many recruits to the monkhood to burgeoning Gelugpa monasteries, tried to contain Gelug expansion by launching military expeditions against them in the region. [226] Shakabpa on the other hand, without citing sources, notes that Trinley Gyatso was influenced and manipulated by two close acquaintances who were subsequently accused of having a hand in his fatal illness and imprisoned, tortured and exiled as a result. [76] At 12 he was installed at Tashilhunpo as Gendun Drup's incarnation, ordained, enthroned and renamed Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo (1475â1542). (Norbu & Turnbull 1968, pp. [66] This led to decades of military and political power struggles between Tsangpa dynasty forces and others across central Tibet. During the mummification process, the head was discovered to have turned from facing south to the northeast. [239] He continued to seek greater autonomy from China, but Dolma Gyari, deputy speaker of the parliament-in-exile, stated: "If the middle path fails in the short term, we will be forced to opt for complete independence or self-determination as per the UN charter". Finally, he was accidentally discovered, living incognito in a Shiva temple in the middle of Varanasi. Arriving in Mongolia in 1585, he stayed 2 years with DhÃ¼ring Khan, teaching Buddhism to his people[115] and converting more Mongol princes and their tribes. [271], In response to this scenario, Tashi Wangdi, the representative of the 14th Dalai Lama, replied that the Chinese government's selection would be meaningless.  [57] When eventually Tsongkhapa's successor the Panchen Lama Khedrup Je died, Gendun Drup became the leader of the Gelugpa. [52] He rose to become Abbot of Drepung, the greatest Gelugpa monastery, outside Lhasa. [250] The government of the People's Republic of China has stated its intention to be the ultimate authority on the selection of the next Dalai Lama. [49] When Gendun Gyatso was given the titular name "Dalai Lama" by the TÃ¼med Altan Khan in 1578,[50]:153 his two predecessors were accorded the title posthumously and he became known as the third in the lineage. This ruined palace, called Tritse Marpo, was originally built around 636 AD by the founder of the Tibetan Empire, Songtsen Gampo for his Nepalese wife. Hugh Richardson's summary of the period covering the four short-lived, 19th-century Dalai Lamas: After him [the 8th Dalai Lama, Jamphel Gyatso], the 9th and 10th Dalai Lamas died before attaining their majority: one of them is credibly stated to have been murdered and strong suspicion attaches to the other. [65], At the age of 50, he entered meditation retreat at Narthang. [124], In fact, throughout the 5th's minority, it was the influential and forceful Sonam Rabten who inspired the Dzungar Mongols to defend the Gelugpa by attacking their enemies. This may be either a claimed 'vision' or some 'indication' of the direction in which to search, and this was how Tenzin Gyatso was determined to be the next Dalai Lama. The story of the Dalai Lama is the story of Tibet, and there's a few things that warrant a little up-front explanation. [253], The particular form of Palden Lhamo at Lhamo La-tso is Gyelmo Maksorma, "The Victorious One who Turns Back Enemies". However, in the aftermath of the Tibetan Uprising in 1959, he fled to India with the Dalai Lama because of his fear of being discovered and used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese Communists. I also loved the huge flocks of hooting geese we saw from time to time”. I liked to sit in the hens' nest and make clucking noises. “I remember very little detail apart from a great sense of wonder at everything I saw: the vast herds of drong (wild yaks) grazing across the plains, the smaller groups of kyang (wild asses) and occasionally a herd of gowa and nawa, small deer which were so light and fast they might have been ghosts. Shetra contrived to return, deposed the Regent, who fled to China, and seized power, appointing himself 'Desi' or Prime Minister. [110] At the second invitation, in 1577â78 Sonam Gyatso travelled 1,500 miles to Mongolia to see him. When Lhamo Thondup was two years old, a search party that had been sent out by the Tibetan government to find the new incarnation of the Dalai Lama arrived at Kumbum monastery. The next day, a ceremony was held in which Lhamo Thondup was conferred the spiritual leadership of his people. For the Kangxi Emperor however, the alliance between the Dzungar Mongols and the Tibetans was unsettling because he feared it had the potential to unite all the other Mongol tribes together against the Qing Empire, including those tribes who had already submitted. Already the previous autumn there had been cross-border incursions by Chinese Communists, who stated their intention of liberating Tibet from the hands of imperialist aggressors. They finally received a vision that the new Dalai Lama would be found in the northeast part of Tibet. So they began to search the neighbouring villages. As the winter drew on and the news got worse, people began to advise that His Holiness be given full temporal (political) authority. From November 1956 to March 1957 His Holiness visited India to participate in the 2500th Buddha Jayanti celebrations. Returning to Tashilhunpo[70] he died 'in a blaze of glory, recognised as having attained Buddhahood'. The title "Dalai Lama" was conferred posthumously to the 1st and 2nd Dalai Lamas. Lhazang Khan, now acting as the only outright foreign ruler that Tibet had ever had, then sent him to Beijing under escort to appear before the emperor but he died mysteriously on the way near Lake Qinghai, ostensibly from illness. He ascribes the probable cause of these early deaths to negligence, foolishness and lack of proper medical knowledge and attention. To Altan Khan, Sonam Gyatso identified himself as the incarnation of DrogÃ¶n ChÃ¶gyal Phagpa, and Altan Khan as that of Kubilai Khan, thus placing the Khan as heir to the Chingizid lineage whilst securing his patronage. When Lhazang was requested by the Tibetans to leave Lhasa politics to them and to retire to Kokonor like his predecessors, he quit the city, but only to gather his armies in order to return, capture Lhasa militarily and assume full political control of Tibet. Soon after, the newly recognized Dalai Lama was taken to the Jokhang temple where he was inducted as a novice monk in a ceremony known as taphue, meaning cutting of the hair. [227], The 13th Dalai Lama assumed ruling power from the monasteries, which previously had great influence on the Regent, in 1895. "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West." [111] [201] This account also corresponds with TJ Norbu's observations above. Considered to be 'the first Chinese scholar in Europe'[209] he stayed five months and gave enthusiastic accounts in his journal of his regular meetings with the Ninth Dalai Lama whom he found fascinating: "beautiful, elegant, refined, intelligent, and entirely self-possessed, even at the age of six". [117], The Fourth Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso (1589â1617) was a Mongolian, the great-grandson of Altan Khan[119] who was a descendant of Kublai Khan and King of the TÃ¼med Mongols who had already been converted to Buddhism by the Third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso (1543â1588). Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru allowed in the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government officials. After five years of complex diplomatic negotiations about whether the emperor or his representatives should meet the Dalai Lama inside or outside the Great Wall, when the meeting would be astrologically favourable, how it would be conducted and so on, it eventually took place in Beijing in 1653. Discovery as Dalai Lama When Lhamo Thondup was two years old, a search party that had been sent out by the Tibetan government to find the new incarnation of the Dalai Lama arrived at Kumbum monastery. [176][177] In 1723, however, after brutally quelling a major rebellion by zealous Tibetan patriots and disgruntled Khoshut Mongols from Amdo who attacked Xining, the Qing intervened again, splitting Tibet by putting Amdo and Kham under their own more direct control. Soon after his arrival in Mussoorie on 20 April 1959, His Holiness met with the Indian Prime Minister and the two talked about rehabilitating the Tibetan refugees. [145] Tibetan historian Nyima Gyaincain points out that based on the texts written on golden sheets, Dalai Lama was only a subordinate of the Emperor of China. In 1951, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government were pressured into accepting the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet by which it became formally incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Meanwhile, Lobsang Tashi and Lukhangwa were to remain in an acting capacity”. [81], Gendun Gyatso's popularity in Ã-Tsang grew as he went on pilgrimage, travelling, teaching and studying from masters such as the adept Khedrup Norzang Gyatso in the Olklha mountains. [277] As an "engaged Buddhist" the Dalai Lama has an appeal straddling cultures and political systems making him one of the most recognized and respected moral voices today. The circumstances are such that it is very likely that some, if not all, were poisoned, either by loyal Tibetans for being Chinese-appointed impostors, or by the Chinese for not being properly manageable. [176][177] After the Kangxi Emperor died in 1722 and was succeeded by his son, the Yongzheng Emperor, these were also withdrawn, leaving the Tibetans to rule autonomously and showing the Qing were interested in an alliance, not conquest. It was further felt that it was not the Dalai Lama's decision to reincarnate. He studied and taught Buddhism there for the next seven years. [123] However, in 1618 Sonam Rabten, the former attendant of the 4th Dalai Lama who had become the Ganden Phodrang treasurer, secretly identified the child,[124] who had been born to the noble Zahor family at Tagtse castle, south of Lhasa. Shambhala Publications. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. [67] In an attempt to ameliorate these clashes, from his retreat Gendun Drup issued a poem of advice to his followers advising restraint from responding to violence with more violence and to practice compassion and patience instead. How he was discovered The thirteenth Dalai Lama died in December of 1933. [29] The 1st Dalai Lama soon became Abbot of the greatest one, Drepung, and developed a large popular power base in Ã. It also increased Qing suspicion about Tibetan relations with the Mongol groups and led him to seek strategic opportunities to oppose and undermine Mongol influence in Tibet and eventually, within 50 years, to defeat the Mongols militarily and to establish the Qing as sole 'patrons and protectors' of Tibet in their place. [140], GÃ¼shi Khan died in 1655 and was succeeded by his descendants Dayan, Tenzin Dalai Khan and Tenzin Wangchuk Khan. The Indian government had already agreed to provide asylum to His Holiness and his followers in India. [35] The 3rd built on his predecessors' fame by becoming Abbot of the two great monasteries of Drepung and Sera. The five minor subjects included poetry, drama, astrology, composition and synonyms. According to their plan they would set him free to go to Lhasa if he would undertake to persuade me to accept Chinese rule. He made himself known as the tulku of Gendun Gyatso and was formally recognised and enthroned at Drepung in 1546. [265], The government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has claimed the power to approve the naming of "high" reincarnations in Tibet, based on a precedent set by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. [225], In any case, Trinley Gyatso died within three years of assuming power. . [35] He spent his winters in Lhasa, writing commentaries and the rest of the year travelling and teaching many thousands of monks and lay people. This Tibetan government also enjoyed the patronage and protection of firstly Mongol kings of the Khoshut and Dzungar Khanates (1642â1720) and then of the emperors of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1720â1912). Until 1674, the Fifth Dalai Lama had mediated in Dzungar Mongol affairs whenever they required him to do so, and the Kangxi Emperor, who had succeeded the Shunzhi Emperor in 1661, would accept and confirm his decisions automatically. He then instituted a custom whereby on the last day of Monlam, all the monks would work on strengthening the flood defences. [58] He was based there, as its Abbot, from its founding in 1447 until his death. [34] Soon recognised as an exceptionally gifted pupil, the abbot tutored him personally and took special interest in his progress. In fact, this text is said to have laid the foundation for the Tibetans' later identification of the Dalai Lamas as incarnations of AvalokiteÅvara. As it turned out, the Chinese who even forged the Tibetan seal had forced the delegation headed by Ngabo into signing the agreement. For 113 years, therefore, supreme authority in Tibet was in the hands of a Lama Regent, except for about two years when a lay noble held office and for short periods of nominal rule by the 11th and 12th Dalai Lamas. “From now on, I was to be shaven-headed and attired in maroon monk's robes”. This arrangement, with a Kashag under the Dalai Lama or his regent, outlasted the Qing dynasty which collapsed in 1912. The Indian Government agreed to bear all the expenses for setting up the schools for the Tibetan children. [120] So, in 1620, Mongol troops allied to the Gelugpa who had camped outside Lhasa suddenly attacked and destroyed the two Tsangpa camps and drove them out of Lhasa, enabling the Dalai Lama to be brought out of hiding and publicly enthroned there in 1622. The name "Dalai Lama" is a combination of the Mongolic word dalai meaning "ocean" or "big" (coming from Mongolian title Dalaiyin qan or Dalaiin khan,[13] translated as Gyatso or rgya-mtsho in Tibetan)[14][15] and the Tibetan word à½à¾³à¼à½à¼ (bla-ma) meaning "master, guru". By 1862 this led to a coup by Wangchuk Shetra, a minister whom the Regent had banished for conspiring against him. Invited to become the Abbot he declined, already being Abbot of Drepung and Sera, but left his deputy there in his stead. In 1648, after quelling a rebellion of Tibetans of Kansu-Xining, the Qing invited the Fifth Dalai Lama to visit their court at Beijing since they wished to engender Tibetan influence in their dealings with the Mongols. [56], In 1415 Gendun Drup met Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelugpa school, and became his student; their meeting was of decisive historical and political significance as he was later to be known as the 1st Dalai Lama. Tenzin Gyatso, however, has stated that he will not be reborn in the People's Republic of China, though he has also suggested he may not be reborn at all, suggesting the function of the Dalai Lama may be outdated. (Sheel 1989, p. 20) He expelled the ambans and all Chinese civilians in the country and instituted many measures to modernise Tibet. In a later interview published in the English language press he stated, "The Dalai Lama office was an institution created to benefit others. Being accountable to ourselves is at the core of lasting change. 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[162] According to Mullin, however, the emperor's support came from genuine spiritual recognition and respect rather than being politically motivated. [190][191] Qianlong Emperor officially accept Gyiangbai as the 8th Dalai Lama when the 6th Panchen Erdeni came to congratulate the Emperor on his 70th birthday in 1780. [36] After being given the Mongolian name 'Dalai',[37] he returned to Tibet to found the great monasteries of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet and Kumbum in Amdo, north-eastern Tibet. [154] The regent was then murdered by Lhazang or his wife, and, in 1706 with the compliance of the Kangxi Emperor the Sixth Dalai Lama was deposed and arrested by Lhazang who considered him to be an impostor set up by the regent. [32] This strong connection caused the Mongols to zealously support the Gelugpa sect in Tibet, strengthening their status and position but also arousing intensified opposition from the Gelugpa's rivals, particularly the Tsang Karma Kagyu in Shigatse and their Mongolian patrons and the BÃ¶npo in Kham and their allies. Consequently, the Dalai Lama has alluded to the possibility of a referendum to determine the 15th Dalai Lama. That way, if the situation deteriorated, I could easily seek exile across the border with India. “I remember pulling at his moustache once and being hit hard for my trouble”, recalls His Holiness. Then, the Panchen Lama, in Shigatse, negotiated the lifting of the ban, enabling the boy to be recognised as Lobsang Gyatso, the 5th Dalai Lama. 59â60). [163], In any case, the Kangxi Emperor took full advantage of having Kelzang Gyatso under Qing control at Kumbum after other Mongols from the Dzungar tribes led by Tsewang Rabtan who was related to his supposed ally Lhazang Khan, deceived and betrayed the latter by invading Tibet and capturing Lhasa in 1717. [118], For a lifetime of only 45 years, his accomplishments were impressive and some of the most important ones were due to his relationship with Altan Khan. The poem, entitled Shar Gang Rima, "The Song of the Eastern Snow Mountains", became one of his most enduring popular literary works. The process can take around two or three years to identify the Dalai Lama, and for the 14th, Tenzin Gyatso, it was four years before he was found. Polhanas died in 1747 and was succeeded by his son Gyurme Namgyal, the last dynastic ruler of Tibet, who was far less cooperative with the Qing. 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