Right to Dalai Lama's reincarnation belongs to Tibetan Buddhist System: US Ambassador
Dharamshala/UNI: Lending support to the Tibetan people, the United States on Monday said the decision to pick a successor to The Dalai Lama belongs to the Tibetan Buddhist system, The Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist leaders, and not anybody else, neither any government nor any entity.
These views were expressed by US Ambassador at Large for InternationalReligious Freedom Samuel D Brownback, who, along with a delegation from his country, met The Dalai Lama, here at the latter's residence.
The delegation arrived in McLeod Ganj at the special invitation of CTA President Lobsang Sangay, to be the official chief guest for the First International Conference on Tibetan Performing Arts and the 60th-anniversary celebrations of Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA).
The Ambassador also met a group of survivors of religious persecution, who had recently escaped from the Chinese-controlled Tibet and had an hour-long interaction with them, while they narrated their accounts.
Speaking in the meeting, he said, ''We believe in religious freedom; the United States strongly supports religious freedom. We believe people all over the world deserve this right and they should be able to practice theirs peacefully and freely.
''Unfortunately, Tibetans aren't allowed to practice their faith freely in Tibet and they have to come to India and other places to practice their faith, so I was hearing with some people that had recently left and all for the reason of wanting to practice their faith freely,'' he added, in an indirect reference to China.
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