Dalai Lama says his successor to be born outside China

By Krishna N. Das

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama's successor volition beryllium calved extracurricular China, the spiritual person of Tibetan Buddhism says successful a caller book, raising the stakes successful a quality with Beijing implicit power of the Himalayan portion helium fled much than six decades ago.

Tibetans worldwide privation the instauration of the Dalai Lama to proceed aft the 89-year-old's death, helium writes successful "Voice for the Voiceless", which was reviewed by Reuters and is being released connected Tuesday.

He had antecedently said the enactment of spiritual leaders mightiness extremity with him.

His publication marks the archetypal clip the Dalai Lama has specified that his successor would beryllium calved successful the "free world", which helium describes arsenic extracurricular China. He has antecedently said lone that helium could reincarnate extracurricular Tibet, perchance successful India wherever helium lives successful exile.

"Since the intent of a reincarnation is to transportation connected the enactment of the predecessor, the caller Dalai Lama volition beryllium calved successful the escaped satellite truthful that the accepted ngo of the Dalai Lama - that is, to beryllium the dependable for cosmopolitan compassion, the spiritual person of Tibetan Buddhism, and the awesome of Tibet embodying the aspirations of the Tibetan radical - volition continue," the Dalai Lama writes.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled astatine the property of 23 to India with thousands of different Tibetans successful 1959 aft a failed uprising against the regularisation of Mao Zedong's Communists.

Beijing insists it volition take his successor, but the Dalai Lama has said immoderate successor named by China would not beryllium respected.

China brands the Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize successful 1989 for keeping live the Tibetan cause, arsenic a "separatist".

When asked astir the publication astatine a property briefing connected Monday, a spokesperson for China's overseas ministry said the Dalai Lama "is a governmental exile who is engaged successful anti-China separatist activities nether the cloak of religion.

"On the Tibet issue, China's presumption is accordant and clear. What the Dalai Lama says and does cannot alteration the nonsubjective information of Tibet's prosperity and development."

'REPRESSIVE COMMUNIST CHINESE RULE'

Beijing said past period it hoped the Dalai Lama would "return to the close path" and that it was unfastened to discussing his aboriginal if helium met specified conditions arsenic recognising that Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable parts of China, whose sole ineligible authorities is that of the People's Republic of China. That connection has been rejected by the Tibetan parliament-in-exile successful India.

Supporters of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan origin see Richard Gere, a follower of Tibetan Buddhism, and Nancy Pelosi, the erstwhile talker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

His followers person been disquieted astir his health, particularly aft genu country past year. He told Reuters successful December that helium mightiness unrecorded to beryllium 110.

In his book, the Dalai Lama says helium has received galore petitions for much than a decennary from a wide spectrum of Tibetan people, including elder monks and Tibetans surviving successful Tibet and outside, "uniformly asking maine to guarantee that the Dalai Lama lineage beryllium continued".

Tibetan contented holds that the psyche of a elder Buddhist monk is reincarnated successful the assemblage of a kid connected his death. The existent Dalai Lama was identified arsenic the reincarnation of his predecessor erstwhile helium was two.

The book, which the Dalai Lama calls an relationship of his dealings with Chinese leaders implicit 7 decades, is being published connected Tuesday successful the U.S. by William Morrow and successful Britain by HarperNonFiction, with HarperCollins publications to travel successful India and different countries.

The Dalai Lama, who has said helium volition merchandise details astir his succession astir his 90th day successful July, writes that his homeland remains "in the grip of repressive Communist Chinese rule" and that the run for the state of the Tibetan radical volition proceed "no substance what", adjacent aft his death.

He expressed religion successful the Tibetan authorities and parliament-in-exile, based with him successful India's Himalayan metropolis of Dharamshala, to transportation connected the governmental enactment for the Tibetan cause.

"The close of the Tibetan radical to beryllium the custodians of their ain homeland cannot beryllium indefinitely denied, nor tin their aspiration for state beryllium crushed everlastingly done oppression," helium writes. "One wide acquisition we cognize from past is this: if you support radical permanently unhappy, you cannot person a unchangeable society."

Given his precocious age, helium writes, his hopes of going backmost to Tibet look "increasingly unlikely".

(Reporting by Krishna N. Das successful New Delhi; further reporting by Lewis Jackson successful Beijing; Editing by William Mallard)