The United States wants the United Nations to take up the Dalai Lama\u2019s succession in an intensifying bid to stop China from trying to handpick his successor, an envoy said after meeting the Tibetan spiritual leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said he spoke at length about the succession issue with the 84-year-old Dalai Lama last week in the monk\u2019s home-in-exile of Dharamsala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brownback said he told the Dalai Lama that the United States would seek to build global support for the principle that the choice of the next spiritual chief \u201cbelongs to the Tibetan Buddhists and not the Chinese government\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI would hope that the UN would take the issue up,\u201d Brownback said after returning to Washington.He acknowledged that China, with its veto power on the Security Council, would work strenuously to block any action, but he hoped countries could at least raise their voices at the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy estimation undoubtedly is that the communist party has thought a lot about this. So they\u2019ve got a plan and I think we have to be equally aggressive with a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dalai Lama once traveled incessantly, drawing huge Western audiences with his good-humored lectures on compassion and happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the Nobel Peace Prize winner has slowed down and earlier this year suffered a chest infection, although he is not known to have serious health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brownback said he found the Dalai Lama \u201cquite jovial\u201d and that the monk had told him, \u201cLook, I\u2019m going to live another 15, 20 years; I\u2019m going to outlast the Chinese government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China, which argues that it has brought modernisation and development to the Himalayan region, has increasingly hinted that it could name the next Dalai Lama, who would presumably be groomed to support Chinese rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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