Dalai Lama Will Give Up Political Role In Tibetan Government-In-Exile

DHARMSALA, India -- The Dalai Lama says he will give up his political role in Tibet's government-in-exile, shifting that power to an elected representative.

The Tibetan spiritual leader has long said he wanted the elected government-in-exile based in this Indian hill town to have more power.

He says in a Thursday speech he would soon be proposing amendments to the exile constitution "reflecting my decision to devolve my formal authority to the elected leader."

Comments

[Rik Little]

02:56 PM on 04/27/2011

Dalai Lama and Tai Chi RULE. I hope this transfer of Tibetan power means that His Holiness will be the one to replace Charlie Sheen on CBS Two and a Half men. He is really the only one who could save the show besides charlie. Best of luck to them all.

[Pod-gers]

04:17 PM on 03/25/2011

9th Annual peach Blossom festival opens in Tibet, too bad HH will miss it.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-03/25/c_13798287.htm
Wow! This is wonderful, literally wonderful! Something positive about China's Tibet but HH never has a good word to say about his homeland! Pity.

[Pod-gers]

12:55 PM on 03/28/2011

Photos of children in Lhasa! Just wonderful!
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/28/c_13801677_4.htm
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[HawaiiSteve]

04:34 PM on 03/15/2011

I don't usually repost my comments, but I feel this one hits the spot and provides some light on the motivation behind many of the negative comments here coming from the PRC.

The Chinese know and fear the power HH has in the rest of the world. They are deeply afraid of him and his power to sway public opinion against them. One needs to look no further than the hoards of PRC drones that descend on this site (any many others as well) anytime a story about HH appears. It's too bad they are so afraid of his teachings about love and compassion. They only need to open themselves up to the teachings and they will see that there is nothing to fear. They are like ants disturbed by a fountain in the garden. They spend all their time uselessly breaking their teeth on the stone, never knowing that all they have to do is climb up and take a drink of the cool water.

[Pod-gers]

08:14 PM on 03/15/2011

Let me know when HH has any genuine teachings to give.

Perhaps if he did some sitting instead of globe trotting he would recover his mind?

NO MORE CROWS!

Tharpa Chotrin

[HawaiiSteve]

08:51 PM on 03/15/2011

It's obvious that you've never actually read anything HH has published. That's OK, because your heart is so full of hate and ignorance I don't think you'd understand his message anyway. I pray that one day you'll free yourself from the poison of hate. Life is so much sweeter without it.

[quintus]

12:09 PM on 03/17/2011

The only sitting it's obvious that you do is on the seat of a toilet. You wouldn't know what meditation was if it hit you on the head. That's obvious.

[HanMeiRen]

08:10 AM on 03/16/2011

I disagree with your judgment on the political landscape with to the Dalai Lama.

IMHO you are grossly over-estimating the Dalai Lama’s power.

[HanMeiRen]

08:15 AM on 03/13/2011

My repeated requests to quintus for clarification on one of his posts have not been responded. I am seeking this forum for help and guidance.

Here is the post in response to Pod-gers’ using of “Tibetan Chinese” (the entire trail started with quintus’s post at 9:47pm on 3/11/2011 on this forum):

------ start of post from quintus ----------------------------------¬--
"Tibetan Chinese" is what exactly? Han Chinese who wannabe Tibetan? I don't blame them: I'd want to switch out my identity, too, if I were them.
-------enf of post from quintus ---¬----------¬----------¬----------¬---

How should one interpret the above post?

[quintus]

11:40 AM on 03/12/2011

As for "freedom" of religion in China, anyone who wants the real picture, need only read about the forced organ harvesting by the CCP on LIVING Falun Gong members.

http://www .theepocht imes.com/n 2/china/re searchers- unravel-ho rrors-in-c hina-52663 .html

You and your CCP sidekick Pod-gers are not fooling anyone.

[Pod-gers]

12:40 PM on 03/12/2011

Falun Goon is not a religion, nor do they claim to be a religion. In fact, the goonies claim that anyone who follows any religion will be condemned to hell forever.

Not only that, in case you have not read the Falun goon's little blue book, anyone who practices Tai Chi will also be condemned to hell.

rememberm nowm Falun Goon in not indigenous to China, it was exported to China wrom those white as white nordic countries. falun is a town in Sweeden, where GW Bush, Salem and Osama bin Laden had their photo taken. It is a playground for the righ and wannabe famous.

get real

[quintus]

01:19 PM on 03/12/2011

I don't really care where Falun Gong came from or whether or not it's a "religion." The point is what the CCP is doing to those who purport to be it's followers. That's the monstrous point I'm trying to elucidate. The extent or degree to which China's leadership will go in dealing with it's "dissidents."

[wereeverywhere]

02:34 PM on 03/12/2011

Revealing attitude toward freedom of conscience- CCP persecutes a group. Instead of concern for said persecution, you attack the victim.

[HanMeiRen]

02:42 PM on 03/12/2011

First of all you are inferring too much from my statement. Did I comment on China’s freedom of religion? Or did I just claim that the CCP does NOT consider Buddhism dangerous at all? So there goes your straw man’s argument.

Now, as far as labeling Pod-gers as a sidekick of me, I am honored but I humbly decline the compliment. If anything, label me as a sidekick of Pod-gers. Interestingly your use of “sidekick” startled me a little and when I looked back at my post with the excerpt from Time magazine I found “sidekick”, which was used to label the Panchen Lama as the sidekick of the Dalai Lama. What irony.

Care to explain why you would switch out your identity as stated in your following post:

------ quote from quintus ------------
"Tibetan Chinese" is what exactly? Han Chinese who wannabe Tibetan? I don't blame them: I'd want to switch out my identity, too, if I were them.
-------------------------------------------

[Pod-gers]

09:48 PM on 03/11/2011

I think he is just doing this because he missed out on the super Iron Rabbit Tibetan Happy New Year Gala in Lhasa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ_K0AYebpo&feature=related

Tibetan Song / Tashi Losar / Happy Tibetan New Year (3;54)

:) Enjoy!

[quintus]

09:47 PM on 03/11/2011

What is it about the Dalai Lama that drives the CCP crazy? He has never advocated violence, even against those who ruthlessly invaded his country and took it by force, killing, by all estimates, one million Tibetans and systematically destroying all 10,000 monasteries. Even after 52 years of an illegal occupation where Tibetans are often treated as less than human by their invaders, where they are regularly imprisoned and tortured for crimes as serious as practicing their religion, carrying a picture of the Dalai Lama, or speaking their own language. Even as he watches his country overwhelmed by Han Chinese whose aim it is to make the Tibetans an ethnic minority in their own country. Even as the country is raped and pillaged for it's natural resources, etc. etc. And still he has called for nonviolence.

And yet, the CCP absolutely h*tes this man even though he is respected and loved by millions around the world for his wisdom and his compassion and authenticity. I guess that's all they have in their arsenal against him: their h*te.

The irony is that China wants desperately to become the world's next super power and wants, perhaps, above all, the respect that goes hand in hand with such an achievement and yet, it is precisely their treatment of the Dalai Lama and his people that will forever deny them that very respect.

[Pod-gers]

10:21 PM on 03/11/2011

Tibetan Chinese have moved on, you should too. Holding on, not letting go is opposite Tibetan Buddhist teaching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6YgVGh46hs

HaHa! This is really funny!

[quintus]

11:37 AM on 03/12/2011

"Tibetan Chinese" is what exactly? Han Chinese who wannabe Tibetan? I don't blame them: I'd want to switch out my identity, too, if I were them.

[wereeverywhere]

07:45 PM on 03/12/2011

Strange how CCP thinks the Tibetans haven't moved on. In neither political or Buddhist terms is your statement correct.

[HanMeiRen]

02:27 PM on 03/11/2011

You be the judge. Is the following propaganda?

-----------------
Two of the world's most out-of-this-world spiritual leaders, the Dalai Lama, 21, and his sidekick, the Panchen Lama, 19, Red-ruled gods-on-earth to some 3,000,000 Tibetans, neared the close of their six-week tour of India honoring the 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha—and celebrated in a great big way. Picking up $105,000 petty cash one morning at Calcutta's Communist-capitalist Bank of China, the Dalai Lama continued his madcap spending spree. No haggler, the Lama snapped up a $1,300 diamond-studded watch; when told it was a bit costly, he emitted a hearty, innocent laugh. He also amassed some German cameras, Swiss watches, radios and fountain pens, dropped about $3,000 at the races on tardy nags. He drew the line one evening, however, when a naughty Calcutta nightclub, featuring a couple of near-naked girl dancers, rang him up to confirm his table reservation. Protesting that the Lama was a wag's logical victim, his secretary cried: "This is horrible! This could never happen in Tibet!"
----------------

Excerpt from:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809049,00.html

[Pod-gers]

08:56 PM on 03/11/2011

Interesting. Some call him His Material Highness. Seriously, though, he had a fondness for watches when he sat the thrown in Lahsa.

Here is a super story about the US Operation Great Wall.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/12/c_13773932_7.htm
I wish Indai would get back what was spirited away from Tibet.

China loves Buddhism, never mind the propaganda from the camp of the run away god-king.

[quintus]

09:50 PM on 03/11/2011

Yes, how ironic that many educated Chinese are flocking to Tibetan Buddhism and yet their government considers this a great threat.

[bunjmaster]

01:29 PM on 03/12/2011

Your link doesnt point to anything mentioning the dalai lama. What source is that from ?

[HanMeiRen]

03:20 PM on 03/12/2011

When I clicked the link I was taken to the correct article.

The source is Time magazine, published on Feb 11, 1957. Might be in the People subsection.

The link should work. If it still does not work for you I can provide the details steps to search the Time magazine.

[wakeupyouall]

01:43 PM on 03/11/2011

The thing about Chinese Propagandist is they belive their own propagands LOL. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

[Pod-gers]

09:24 PM on 03/11/2011

The problem with the Free Tibet Movement is they no longer believe in reincarnation, and that presents a succession challenge! It is hillarious and a tragidy at the same time, yep, a tragi-comedy!

[wereeverywhere]

02:14 PM on 03/12/2011

The Free Tibet movement has many problems, mainly that they're unfree because of CCP occupation. Your interest in reincarnation is touching, but again has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

[quintus]

11:35 AM on 03/12/2011

That's a prerequisite for the job: successful brain-washing by the CCP before being hired.

[HanMeiRen]

06:55 AM on 03/11/2011

The 14th Dalai Lama stated on March 10, 2011:
“Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the Tibetan people’s peaceful uprising of 1959 against Communist China’s repression in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, and the third anniversary of the non-violent demonstrations that took place across Tibet in 2008. …”

When it is the Dalai Lama’s turn it is “peaceful uprising”, it is “non-violent demonstrations”.

Is it so?

Or he has a different interpretation of “peaceful” as well as “non-violent”.

[tcny]

09:04 AM on 03/11/2011

Ah, Chinese government propagandists start work pretty early in the morning, no?

[HanMeiRen]

09:15 AM on 03/11/2011

My next shift dropped the ball otherwise you should have seen more "propaganda".

Good morning to you too.

[Pod-gers]

09:19 PM on 03/11/2011

Acording to the book, Born in Tibet, "rumours were circulated" that China was going to hurt His Holiness. They were told to go the the theatre where he was expeted to be. However, he was not there, because he had already been guided out of Lahsa by the CIA . There is a book by the CIA that shows them leading him out, he is on a horse and dressed in his finest robes and furs.

He had previoully collected all the gold and jewels he could, from Tibetan people all across China to build a thrown, but he never told them he had made the decision to hook up with the CIA.

The people who showed up at the theatre had no idea he was taking the money and runing away to Indai, they thought the Chinese had kidnapped him. Now, I wonder, who do you suppose spread those rumours?

So, just like in Lahsa '08, the so called uprising in '59 was incited as part of a covert ops campaign paid for by US taxpayers. And we have been footing the bill for this scam ever since. last year, some $14-20 million, it is hard to nail it down, because money for these Tibet programs are incerted as line items in various appropiations bills.

Right now Tibetans in China are celebrating their New Year with beer and traditional observences, while the Tibetan self exiled CIA tools plot their next moves and asking congress not to cuth funding.

[Pod-gers]

11:08 PM on 03/10/2011

India news reports that he said he is not leaving his political activities, he just wants someone else to be elected, because he noticed he has held the "office" linger than Mubarak. Of Course, Mubarak was president of a real country, that is recognized by other countries. But, so be it, looks like he is just palying a game, and not leaving political activities after all.

[HanMeiRen]

05:21 AM on 03/11/2011

Are you saying the Dalai Lama’s “retirement” is the same “retirement” of Deng who continued to be China’s supreme political leader after unloading all his official titles?

So his “retirement” is not “retirement” as understood by me (I can not claim others have the same understanding). What a shock.

[Pod-gers]

10:49 PM on 03/10/2011

Moderator, does Huff post permit ad hominum attacks? I believe they do not. Please moderate nased on guidelined for a[ppropiateness.

I have filed a complaint and will follow up.

I expect to be able tom post comments that meet the guidelines without belin g harrased,ganged up on, intimidated or bullied. I fine ad hominum attacks abusive.

Please do not permit any more ad hom inum attacks.

Thank you,

[wereeverywhere]

03:00 AM on 03/11/2011

Hypocrite. How low to celebrate the Chinese denial of fundamental human rights and self-determination to the Tibetan people and to then in turn complain that you're being put upon. Not that even crypto-racist attacks on Tibetans that propagate the Party line of an authoritarian government should be censored- *even you* deserve free speech for your absurdities.

[HanMeiRen]

09:39 AM on 03/11/2011

“attacks”, yes. “crypto-racist attack”, no.

I challenge you to back up you accusation of “crypto-racist”.

[Pod-gers]

09:25 PM on 03/11/2011

When did burning 5 young, beautiful shope girls alive become a human right?

I am pleased that China caught and punished those responsible.

Good for China!

[tcny]

09:06 AM on 03/11/2011

Do you drive yourself or take mass transit to your office at the Chinese embassy, or do you work from home?

[HanMeiRen]

09:41 AM on 03/11/2011

Do you drive yourself or take mass transit to your Office of the Dalai Lama, or do you work from home?

[wrabbitt]

08:34 PM on 03/10/2011

Leaving an opening for Sarah Palin, gods gift to humanity, (thats hard to say with a straight face.)

[HanMeiRen]

07:34 PM on 03/10/2011

Oh, I wonder how much money the CCP paid to Mr. Brendan O'Neil:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100079401/the-dalai-lama-the-latte-sipping-classes-favourite-religious-leader-finally-agrees-to-step-down/#

[Pod-gers]

11:03 PM on 03/10/2011

faved!

[mike72]

03:33 AM on 03/11/2011

"Brendan O'Neill is the editor of spiked, an independent online phenomenon dedicated to raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism in all their ancient and modern forms."

Hey that is exactly what I have been doing in this forum. Nice job, Brendan!

[LMPE]

07:03 PM on 03/10/2011

Whaddaya mean you're giving up? Being a quitter (e.g., Sarah Palin) is NOT the Dalai Lama that we know!