Dalai Lama meddelte torsdag, at han vil holde som tibetanernes politiske leder og fremover alene optræde som deres åndelige overhoved.
Den 75-årige vinder af Nobels fredspris længe talt om at træde tilbage som leder af den tibetanske eksilregering, der først og fremmest er en ceremoniel titel, men fortsætte i den langt vigtigere rolle som åndeligt overhoved.
Dalai Lama flygtede fra Tibet i 1959 efter et fejlslagent oprør mod den kinesiske besættelse 9 år før. Han bor i eksil i Indien og taler for et “meningsfuldt autonomi” for Tibet i Kina.
I den anledning har vi modtaget følgende fra Nordisk Institut for Asien-studier (NIAS):
In Focus: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s Retirement from Politics
Today, the 10th of March 2011, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama announced that he will transfer his formal authority to the leader that the exile-Tibetans chose in the upcoming elections for a Tibetan Prime Minister-in-Exile.
Trine Brox, Assistant Professor in Tibetology and China Studies at Copenhagen University comments on the Dalai Lama’s statement in this week’s In Focus blog on the AsiaPortal.
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