Will the Tibetan spiritual leader disclose a plan of inheritance when he is 90 years old?

Hundreds of Dalai Lama followers gathered in northern India for the 90th birthday of Tibetan spiritual leader of exile, against the backdrop of the increasing expectation that he could give an idea of ​​his possible heir.

The Dalai Lama has to release a video message and a statement on Wednesday, his office told him to the BBC, although there is no clarity in what he will say.

The Dalai Lama fled across the border to India in 1959 after an unsuccessful uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet.

He set up a government in exile in the northern city of the Indian Hill Dharamsala and was regarded as an alternative source of power for those who resent Tibet’s strict control in Beijing.

The main birthday on Sunday will be preceded by the three-day 15th Tibetan religious conference beginning Wednesday morning. The celebrations began on Monday – Dalai Lama’s birthday according to the Tibetan lunar calendar.

More than 7,000 guests will be present, including a number of Indian ministers. On Monday, the photos showed the Hollywood actor of the Dalai Lama, Richard Gere, a longtime follower.

The Dalai Lama, who said earlier that she would post her order about her sequence about 90’s birthday, told a gathering on Monday that “there will be some framework in which we can talk about the continuation of the Dalai Lamas institution.” He has not developed.

In the past, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism was torn apart Nobel Peace, which is torn apart between whether or not to continue with the 600-year-old institution. A few years ago, he said that his heir may be a girl or that he may not have an heir at all.

But in recent years, he also said that if he had extensive support among Tibetans in exile for the publication – as he had – then he would continue and his office would choose an heir.

He always insisted that his heir would be born outside China, something that angered Beijing.

Although the Dalai Lama has always stood up for a “middle road” to resolve Tibet status – real self -government in China – Beijing considers him a separatist. It says that the standard of living of people in Tibet has improved significantly in its management.

Youdon Aukatsang, a MP from the Tibetan Parliament in exile, said it did not expect a clear cut procedure to be placed this week.

“I think everyone expects some revelation from his holiness about his rebirth. But I do not expect a very specific kind of revelation,” he told the BBC.

The present Dalai Lama, he said, “is a binding and unifying force for the Tibetan movement” and some Tibetans believe that someone should be recognized soon as his heir because they are worried that he may have an impact on the community and the movement forward.

“The Dalai Lama Institution is very important for the Tibetan struggle. It is also a symbol of the Tibetan identity and the beacon of our spiritual refuge. It will continue. I think there will be a vacuum, but we have to continue, we have no choice,” he said.

“We have many, very big shoes to fill, but we have to fill them, right? I think many people will have to get into this role, one person will not be enough.”

However, experts say that if he announces an heir, then China is also expected to name his own Dalai Lama.

“China will claim that only the Communist Party in China, based in Beijing, has the authority to find the rebirth of the Dalai Lama,” Dibaey Anand, Professor of International Relations at Westminster University, told the BBC.

“After a period of a few months or a faw years, they will have the onpteges Identify a small Boy as the Next Dalai Lama and Impose The Course, A Majority of Tibetans ARE In the World Are Going to make fun of it.

Aukatsang says that “despite all these years of trying to control the hearts and minds of Tibetan people inside Tibet”, Beijing “completely failed.”

The Dalai Lama, chosen by China, says that “not only the Tibetans will be recognized, but the world will not recognize it because China does not have legitimacy to find the future Dalai Lama.”

“We are concerned, but we know that regardless of our concern, China will invent its own Dalai Lama, we will call it Chinese recognized the Dalai Lama. I do not worry that the Dalai Lama will have some credibility in the Tibetan world or the Buddhist world.”

Tibetan Buddhists believe that their higher monks are reincarnated and the Dalai Lama is chosen by Buddhist officials if they are convinced that the one they choose, the port of their predecessor’s soul.

The present – the 14th – Dalai Lama was born on July 6, 1935 in a small Tibetan village into a family of farmers and was named Lhamo Dhondub. When he was two years old, a party to search for Buddhist officials acknowledged him to rebirth the 13 previous Dalai Lamas.

According to his official biography, the clinning evidence came when his employees show a number of possessions belonging to his predecessor. The young child correctly identifies the objects belonging to the 13th Dalai Lama, saying, “This is mine. It’s mine.”

Recommended before he was four years old, he was educated in a Tibetan monastery and has a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy.

But in 1950, when he was 15, the troops of Mao Zedong’s newly carried communist government moved to Tibet. A year later, China compiled an agreement with 17 points, legitimizing the inclusion of Tibet in China.

The Tibetan Uprising in 1959, seeking an end to Chinese rule, was crushed and thousands of protesters were killed.

The Dalai Lama fled to India on foot along with 10,000 followers and settled in Dharamsala, governing a government in exile from there. In 2011, he gave up his political role, but remained a senior spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

Some of those who escaped with him still dream of returning to Tibet.

“My faith is that I will go back to Tibet. If not me, my younger generations will definitely come back,” said the 84 -year -old Losang Choedon, who attends the celebrations on Monday.

Choedon’s daughter and grandchildren were born – and spent their entire lives in India. Nevertheless, her 15-year-old grandson, NGAWANG LHUNDUP, feels deeply related to her homeland as ancestors.

He has been listening to Tibet stories since he was a child and says he would have thought of a visit to Tibet, even though he was under Chinese rule.

“But if it was free from Chinese invasion, I would be more than pleased to return to Tibet.”