{"id":5533,"date":"2025-07-02T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2025-07-06T05:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:00:31","slug":"the-gaden-phodrang-trust-has-sole-authority-to-recognise-the-future-reincarnation-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5533","title":{"rendered":"The Gaden Phodrang Trust has sole authority to recognise the future reincarnation : Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Dharamshala. Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama has once again publicly reaffirmed that the authority to recognise his reincarnation rests solely with the Gaden Phodrang Trust established by him, not with any external political power, including China.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In a statement released on Wednesday, July 2, the Buddhist leader said the institution of the Dalai Lama would continue, following widespread appeals from Tibetan communities and Buddhist practitioners across Asia.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5537 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839-750x1061.jpg 750w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1751432462839-1140x1612.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1448px) 100vw, 1448px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cI am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue,\u201d he said. \u201cI have received messages from Tibetans in Tibet and abroad, as well as from followers of Tibetan Buddhism across the Himalayan region, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, and even mainland China.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The 14th Dalai Lama, born Lhamo Dhondup in 1935, was identified at the age of two through a traditional process involving visions, omens, and ritual testing. That same process, considered deeply embedded in the Buddhist belief, has been challenged by China, which claims it holds final authority over all reincarnations of Tibetan religious figures.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In today&#8217;s statement, the Dalai Lama referenced a 2011 meeting, where he had already outlined the succession process. In that statement, he said the responsibility for identifying a future Dalai Lama would rest exclusively with the Gaden Phodrang Trust, the official body associated with his office, and would involve consultation with senior lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions and other established spiritual mechanisms.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">He reiterated, \u201cThe Gaden Phodrang Trust has sole authority to recognise the future reincarnation; no one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250702_105351_278.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dharamshala. Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama has once again publicly reaffirmed that the authority to recognise his reincarnation rests solely with the Gaden Phodrang Trust established by him, not with any external political power, including China. \u00a0 In a statement released on Wednesday, July 2, the Buddhist leader said the institution of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot_20250702_105220_Facebook.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}