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14th Dalai Lama

14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama is the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was born in 1935 and was selected as the 14th Dalai Lama at the age of two. Many Tibetans around the world regard the Dalai Lama as their spiritual leader. He fled from China in 1959 and has not returned since. He is known as a charismatic speaker and lifelong advocate for human rights and religious freedom for Tibetans inside Tibet.
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6 Jul 1935
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14th Dalai Lama
Li Ganjie is head of the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department and a member of the now 22-man Politburo. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

China must ‘strengthen education’ of Tibetan Buddhists, Beijing official says

On inspection tour, Li Ganjie urges local authorities to promote new ‘unity’ law to ethnic minority groups.

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China’s Communist Party

Panchen Lama says reincarnation must follow Chinese laws, be endorsed by Beijing

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SCMP Highlights

Chinese families in ‘broken houses’; PLA’s warning: SCMP daily highlights

Diplomacy

China cuts ties with Czech president over his birthday visit to Dalai Lama

Beijing says it ‘lodged serious protests with the Czech side’ after Pavel left Japan to make private trip to see exiled spiritual leader.

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China says it is cutting ties with Czech President Petr Pavel after he met the Dalai Lama on July 27 in Leh, Ladakh, India, as part of the exiled spiritual leader’s 90th birthday celebrations. Photo: Dalai Lama/Facebook
China-India relations

India’s Modi urged to attend China’s victory parade. What would it mean at home?

Amid thawing ties between the Asian giants, commentators look at why the Indian leader should – or should not – visit China in September.

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China-India relations

China and India to restart direct flights after more than five years

Resumption comes as India’s foreign minister makes first trip to Beijing since 2020, meets counterpart Wang Yi and Vice-President Han Zheng.

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China-India relations

Will Dalai Lama succession row put China-India thaw at risk?

Tibet is a red line that cannot be crossed, one observer warns, while another says ‘young and weak’ thaw will survive reincarnation dispute.

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Children take part in a Tibetan circle dance around a portrait of the Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday, in McLeod Ganj near Dharamsala, India, on Sunday. India has hosted the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala since 1959. Photo: AFP
China-India relations

China protests over Indian PM Narendra Modi’s birthday greetings to Dalai Lama

Beijing’s second warning in a week cautions India on Tibet issues, advising New Delhi not to ‘meddle’ in Chinese internal affairs.

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Tibet

Beijing says Dalai Lama’s succession plan breaks tradition, tensions set to rise

Beijing’s foreign ministry responds to the exiled spiritual leader who says his office has sole authority to recognise next Dalai Lama.

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China’s Communist Party

Chinese religious groups warned of ‘hidden danger’ from foreign infiltration

United Front chief Li Ganjie’s message to faith groups follows Xi Jinping’s call to ‘Sinicise’ religion in meeting with Tibet’s Panchen Lama.

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The latest warning echoes Xi Jinping’s comments during his recent meeting with the Panchen Lama. Photo: Xinhua
Tibet

Dalai Lama to issue July 2 message, expected to address succession

The video message will be shown just days before the Nobel Peace Prize-winning monk is expected to celebrate his 90th birthday.

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The Dalai Lama presides over an event during which exiled Tibetans prayed for his longevity in Dharamshala, India, on June 4. Photo: AP
China’s Communist Party

China warns against separatism ahead of Dalai Lama’s expected succession decree

During inspection tour, Chen Wenqing says political and legal bodies must fully understand Qinghai’s unique geopolitical position.

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China-EU relations

In human rights talks, EU warns of ‘deterioration’ of basic freedoms in China

Brussels cites ‘interference’ in Dalai Lama succession plan and jailed Uygur and Tibetan activists as examples of erosion of freedoms.

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US-China relations

Open Questions | Ex-CIA official Dennis Wilder on why US-Europe rift is ‘highly exaggerated’

The national security specialist and former CIA official on US-China ties and the group chat discussion that shocked the world.

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US-China relations

Open Questions | Xi-Trump meeting is ‘far away’: former CIA official says China needs to take steps on fentanyl

Dennis Wilder says China needs to stop using the fentanyl issue as a political card. He says that before Trump and Xi meet, negotiations are in order and that the US stance towards Taiwan hasn’t changed.

Xi-Trump meeting is ‘far away’: former CIA official says China needs to take positive steps on fentanyl
Tibet

Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing

The Drepung Monastery in Lhasa has the capacity to look for the exiled spiritual leader’s successor under Beijing’s supervision, Tibetology researcher says.

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Tibet

Explainer | Why the choice of the next Dalai Lama is such a sensitive issue for Beijing

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has hinted his successor may be born outside China, setting the scene for intense controversy.

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India

Dalai Lama’s brother, architect of talks with China, dies at 97

Gyalo Thondup began discussions between Dharamsala and Beijing in 1979, in a departure from his earlier approach of armed struggle.

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Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama’s elder brother, is seen in Dharamsala in this undated file photograph. Thondup died at his home in India on Saturday evening. Photo: AFP
China’s Communist Party

China’s ideology tsar signals to Dalai Lama at Buddhism reincarnation exhibit

China’s fourth senior official Wang Huning visits China Tibetology Research Centre, as officials vow national unity and ethnic solidarity.

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China’s Communist Party

Buddhists urged to obey reincarnation rules as Dalai Lama mulls successor

Top monks and religious experts gather for seminar aimed at making Tibetan Buddhism ‘compatible with socialist society’.

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Hong Kong Basic Law

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

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Tibet

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

The Potala Palace in the Tibet Autonomous region of China. It was the residence of the 14th Dalai Lama until he fled to India during the 1959 Tibetan uprising, which followed by two years an offer by Beijing’s leaders to take a “long-term” view of Tibet’s reforms.
Tibet

China warns US not to allow ‘separatist activities’ by Dalai Lama

Beijing protests to Washington after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader meets senior American officials in New York.

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Tibet

Tibet, Summer Davos and more

A US delegation’s visit to the Dalai Lama prompted denunciation from Beijing. Also in the news, China rolled out measures to support its tech-laden Star Market, and economic data was mixed. Next week, “Summer Davos” kicks of in Dalian and a mitigation trial of Hong Kong opposition figures convenes.

China-India relations

US lawmakers meeting Modi after Dalai Lama signals India shift on China: analysts

India, one expert says, has ‘indicated that it is willing to gradually ramp up pressure on issues like Tibet and Taiwan’.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) poses with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (on his left) and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (on his right). Photo: Twitter/@narendramodi
China’s Communist Party

Xi visits Tibetans and temple in China, calls for ethnic unity

Xi urges provincial leaders to make Qinghai a national clean-energy highland, international ecotourism destination and green export base.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping visits a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Xining, Qinghai province, on Tuesday. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

US lawmakers meet Tibet’s Dalai Lama, pressure China on talks

The group, which includes ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi, says it won’t let China influence the spiritual leader’s choice of successor.

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US-China relations

China warns US over congressional delegation’s trip to meet with the Dalai Lama

Washington should ‘have no contact with the Dalai group in any form, and stop sending the wrong signal to the world’, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman says.

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