Dalai Lama Representative Dismisses Chinese Pressure on India Over Reincarnation

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Dalai Lama Representative Dismisses Chinese Pressure on India Over Reincarnation
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The Dalai Lama’s representative in North America has dismissed recent remarks by Chinese officials demanding that India support Beijing’s selection of the 84-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader’s successor.

Recent remarks to Indian reporters in Lhasa by two Chinese officials responsible for Tibet warning New Delhi against recognizing the Dalai Lama’s choice of successor have added a new element to longstanding Chinese pressure on Tibetans, said Ngodup Tsering, the Dalai Lama’s representative in North America.

“The Chinese government’s interference in the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation has been there since 2007. However trying to put pressure on the Indian government on this issue has startled me,” Tsering told RFA’s Tibetan Service in an interview.

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