Dalai Lama clashes with Chinese government over future successor

NBC News' Josh Lederman gives a breakdown on the long-time spiritual feud between the Chinese government and the exiled Dalai Lama. He explains how tensions are reaching new heights amid the search for the leader's successor.  

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[SGALAXIA]

Only the Avatar, master of the 4 elements, can bring peace to the world...

[silafaupaulmeredith]

Maybe the CIA would appoint the next Dalai Lama

[jackytang]

The kid licked by His tongue is the next Dalailama

[maxben]

He’ll find the next one by their tongues

[TruthShallPrevail]

The Chinese propaganda bots are in full force

[KingofPeriodicTable]

Almost all spiritual leaders are material and hypocrites. Some even disgusting.

[litchi]

Was also a slave master. Go check.
The Chinese liberated slavery in Tibet.

[sporadics]

Temu: you can get a Dalai Lama for 1.99 with free shipping...

[pringleberg]

I hear the dalai lama treats children very respectfully

[Cletus_the_Elder]

This can only be resolved with a meeting of the tongues.

[BeijingGenocideOlympic.]

My condolences to the millions Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Southern Mongolians who lost their *lands, identity, and dignity*
and now become genocide victims of the Chinese regime 🇨🇳.

[maapaa]

Long live his holiness Dalai Lama 14th 🙏

[ArabicReja]

The situation of *Tibet vs. China* is exactly the same as Ukraine vs. Russia 🇷🇺 right now.
- Tibet was an independent country when China invaded and is now occupying it.

[iangang]

The Dalai Lama sounds like the Pope and the Avatar in a different universe.

[rufus]

This is quite biased reporting, Wikipedia did a much better job discussing the controversy surrounding Dalai Lama's succession process. The "Golden Urn" selection was used with some frequency in recent history (with only exemptions submitted by previous Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, historically the head of "Search Committee" of next Dalai Lama). So as they say, reality is often much more nuanced than what is reported here.

[chinolee]

LONG LIVE HIS HOLINESS THE GREAT 14TH DALAI LAMA ❤❤❤❤❤THE LIVING BUDDHA OF COMPASSION ❤❤❤❤

[twood]

Historical record showed during the time of Kangxi Emperor, he once had a conversation with the Dalai Lama of his time and asked to explain the process of choosing future successor. The outcome was that Kangxi said the process is completely rigged, meaning they can pick anyone they want and call it the next Dalai Lama. Then the emperor ordered them to redesign the process of choosing future successors. Then few years later one of the mongo banner lord heard of this and implemented this process in mongo lands and made his son the religious ruler. Spiritual leader have a nice ring to it, but there is nothing spiritual about it. If Kangxi Emperor can change the rule of the game, that means anyone can do it.

[lastChang]

China🇨🇳 must not interfere into the internal matter of Tibetan's selection of the next Dalai Lama's process.
It's an internal Tibetian matter!

[lhojong]

Let us first find Chairman Mao’s reincarnation.. Lol...

[Aidann]

It wouldn’t be the first time the Chinese government restructures the succession of the Dali Lama. In the Qing dynasty the Qianlong emperor changed the reincarnation system in the past and instead chose the 8th Dali lama out of an urn just like the government wants to do today. The thing many westerners don’t understand is that this isn’t a new phenomenon. Chinese emperors always were the ones to give authority to the Dali Lama because Tibetan Buddhism was the state religion for China at one point in history.