TOKYO: In a sharp message to China to back off from interfering in the succession process of the next Dalai Lama, the Japanese Buddhist conference for World Federation has placed on record its position that the Tibetan individuals should decide the follower of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on the basis of Tibetan culture and history, and not China.The Japan Buddhist Conference for World Federation is an umbrella organisation that brings together a variety of sects of Japanese Buddhism, with millions of fans in Japan and other countries and the letter has strongly voiced objections over Chinas continuous disturbance in Tibets spiritual and spiritual matters.
His Holiness, Dalai Lama, the 14th turned 87 years on July 6, 2022.
The issue of his future successor is slowly getting attention all over the world.
We the monks of Japan believe that Tibetan individuals should pick the next follower based upon their Tibetan Buddhist culture and history , reverend Eihiro Mizutani, the secretary general of Japan Buddhist conference for World Federation stated in the letter while highlighting that China had no role in this.
PRC, which manages Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is exercising the policy which would select the Dalai Lamas follower under the Chinese governments leadership, based on the Tibetan Buddhism Living Buddha Reincarnation Management Law, enacted in the year 2007.
Nevertheless, Peoples Republic of Chinas national policy is based on communism and is considered non-religious.
The Japanese Buddhist Conference said, Non-religious people deciding spiritual leader is contradictory in itself .