China hopes that Dalái Lama can “return to the right track” and is open to talk about the future of the Nobel Peace Prize, provided that certain conditions are met, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who turns 90 this year, fled in 1959 of Tibet to India after a failed uprising against the Chinese domain, but has expressed his desire to return to Tibet before he died.
China is open to talk about the future of Dalái Lama whenever he abandons his position to divide the “Mother Homeland,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Jiakun, in a press conference.
Guo thus responded to a request for comments on the death of the older brother of the spiritual leader, Gyalo Thondup, who had previously acted as his unofficial envoy in conversations with Chinese leaders. Gyalo Thondup died on Saturday, at the age of 97, at his home in the Indian city of Kalimpong.
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Dalái Lama must recognize that Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable parts of China
Dalái Lama must openly recognize that Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable parts of China, whose only legal government is that of the People’s Republic of China, Guo said, using the official name of the country.
Dalái Lama resigned in 2011 as a political leader of the Tibetan government in exile, which Beijing does not recognize. Official conversations with their representatives have stagnated since then.
As Dalái Lama ages, the question of his successor becomes increasingly urgent. China insists that he will choose his successor as a spiritual leader of Tibet.
However, Dalái Lama affirms that he will clarify the issues about his succession, as if he will reincarnate and where he would, continuing the Tibetan Buddhist belief, when he turns 90 in July.
A new book of Dalái Lama is expected to go on sale in March coinciding with the anniversary of the uprising, a frame for the future of the Tibet “even after me gone,” he said.
With Reuters information
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