![]() (His predecessor had died in 2012.) The People’s Republic of China then sanctioned Mongolia over the Dalai Lama’s visit. On a visit to Mongolia in 2016, the Dalai Lama announced that this 10th reincarnation had been born. ![]() The history of the Dalai Lama and the Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, and the decisions their predecessors made, have shaped the map of Tibet, China, and Mongolia today. But the PRC controls only a portion of historical Mongolia, a Chinese region known as Inner Mongolia, while Mongolia itself, once protected from Chinese ambitions by its status as a Soviet satellite, is now an independent country. The Jebtsundamba Khutughtu line has traditionally led Buddhists in Mongolia, just as the Dalai and Panchen Lamas have in Tibet.īizarrely, for an atheist communist party-state, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) claims that only it can decide on reincarnations of Tibetan Buddhist lamas-a privilege the PRC says it inherited from the Manchu rulers of the Qing Empire, which included both Mongolia and Tibet. Mongolia and Tibet share a Buddhist tradition, usually known as “Tibetan Buddhism,” in which lineages of reincarnated lamas play an important role. At a public teaching in Dharamsala, India, on March 8 this year, the Dalai Lama mentioned, almost in passing, the presence of the boy reincarnation of the Jebtsundamba Khutughtu-a Mongolian high lama like the Dalai Lama himself.
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