The Dalai Lama succession scam: The Dalai Lama has declared that he will decide the method upon which his reincarnated successor will be decided. 達賴喇嘛繼任騙局：達賴喇嘛宣布，他將決定其轉世繼承人的確定方式 By KJ
The Western press is framing his “reincarnation” as his last act of defiance against Beijing. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/asia/dalai-lama-90-birthday-reincarnation-battle-china-intl-hnk
This is nonsense. The Dalai Lama has no more authority to decide his successor or his method of succession than the Pope has to decide his.
Tradition dictates succession.
This explains the traditional method and why it was implemented https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1940477330163749312
People who claim that the Dalai is the reincarnation of the Buddha are wrong.
The Buddha does not reincarnate. That’s the definition of the Buddha: the awakened being that has transcended the cycle of birth and rebirth.
“If it’s reborn, it’s not buddha”.
Neither is the Dalai Lama the leader of Tibet, of Buddhism, or even Tibetan Buddhism. He is one of the leaders of a single sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the Gelugpa (the other is the Panchen Lama). There are 5 other major schools, some of which do not recognize any central authority. Nor is “TIbetan” Buddhism uniquely TIbetan. Nepal, Mongolia, and other countries practice the Vajrayana-influenced tradition but have nothing to do with the Dalai Lama.
As for those who argue that this is Chinese political interference in an autonomous religious tradition, they fail to understand that the very institution of the Dalai Lama was created and endowed by the Ming Tributary King Shunyi [Altan Khan] upon Sonam Gyatso, the leader at the time of the Gelugpa. (Sonam Gyatso was designated the third Dalai Lama by Shunyi, and the previous Gelugpa leaders retroactively designated as reincarnations (or pre-incarnations, if you will)).
The specific idea of a reincarnating leader (the “Tulku system”) came out of several political needs:
First, to ensure succession of theocratic power within [a technically] celibate order–e,g, the great grandson of Shunyi was designated the 4th Dalai Lama.
Second, to prevent assassination–Tibetan palace intrigue had led multiple assassinations; in particular the assassination of Buddhist King Ralpachen led to the creation of the Tulku system, a political appropriation of the reincarnation trope that was designed to send the message “it’s useless to assassinate me, I will just keep coming back”.
Third, to ensure continuity of patriarchal dominance through a myth of “male motherhood”–a divine, self-reproducing male
This is the most likely scenario for “reincarnation”: selection by CIA/Western NGO, https://nitter.poast.org/barua2004/status/1940831190791115136#m
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