2nd June 2011
Late last year he had considered it, now he is getting serious: A few weeks ago , the Dalai Lama from his Indian asylum, that he resigns from his position as political leader of Tibet. His successor in that office to be elected into office, it said. His position as spiritual leader while he was keeping.
A clever, especially a long overdue step. It is exactly this Vereininigung two offices in his person or the resulting confusion, who was speaking to his people, for now, the secular and the religious leader, it forbade his people to oppose him. Because its Buddhist leaders they had to follow unconditionally, but not his policy, it said the former German translator of the Damai Lama, the Buddhist Helmut Gassner, zeitgeist over in an interview .
The extent of the Tibetan "god-king" really delivers its power remains to be seen critically. The Dalai Lama also did well to educate his followers openly that he has given up already in 1988 the right to a free Tibet. Autonomy under China was enough for him, so Gassner, and is already given since 1959. To his followers he would rather keep to the facts covered. Speaks to the issue in this country, they will be addressed by "Free Tibet" activists are not uncommon. But they would still want to know exactly what they support.
In addition, a slightly older, but still timely "Panorama program" on the other side of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism:
