New Delhi: In a step that has implications of spiritual and foreign policy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to the Dalai Lama on his birthday on Tuesday.
This is the first time Modi openly acknowledged contact with Tibetan Spiritual leaders in many years.
Coming at a time when Indian-Chinese relations are at the time they are the most tenuous, PM actions on Tuesday will resonate well in Beijing and other parts of the world.
“Speaking on the phone with his holiness @DalaiLama to deliver greetings on his 86th birthday.
We hope he lives a long and healthy life.” Message Modi is innocent, but bring a lot of weight given a unique place of India in Tibetan affairs and its relationship with China.
Speaking on the phone with holiness @DalaiLama to deliver greetings on his 86th birthday.
We hope he lives long and healthy .- Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1625556036000 best carrying Chinese and Tibet observers surprised.
Coming as done from the highest level, it can be the beginning of a clearer policy in Tibet.
Dalai Lama said because he became a refugee and now settled in India, he had taken full advantage of Indian freedom and religious harmony.
“I want to assure you that for the rest of my life, I am committed to reviving ancient Indian knowledge,” he said.
Chinese experts and Tibet Claude Arpi told Toi, “I think this is good news.
This is a strong message for China, especially before the 12th military talks.
It is also a message that India is behind the Dalai Lama for whatever she is Decide for his succession.
As far as I know, this is the first time Indian PM has spoken with his holiness in the old Dalai for his birthday and made it known openly.
I hope it will overshadow a closer relationship between Delhi and DL and with CTA (Central Tibet administration ).
“India hasn’t openly taken a position on the old Dalai succession, but it has been known that it must be the only preservation of Tibetans and no one must have a role in it.
China, in the latest white paper in Tibet, has emphasized that China will control the reincarnation process of the Dalai Lama.
“This is a step that is welcomed either in the right direction and hopefully will lead to emphasizing that the desire of the Dalai Lama about the problem of his reincarna will be respected by the Indian government,” said Amitabh Mathur, a former advisor in the Ministry of Tibetan to the Ministry of Tiabet.
By 2020, Trump administration passes through Tibetan policy and support law, where the US asserts that only the Dalai Lama must have control over the reincarna.
Which has been continued by Biden.
Meanwhile, the President of the Tibet-in-Exile government, Penpa Tsering, told PTI in Dharamshala on Tuesday that the Chinese government had to realize that the old Dalai was the key to resolving the Sino-Tibetan conflict and had to invite it to “Tibet and China on a pilgrimage without prerequisites anything “.
The new Sikyong CTA has been related to the Indian government in recent weeks, according to sources.