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Beijing (AFP) March 8, 2011 The eventual death of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, will have no major impact on the stability of the Chinese-ruled region, state media on Tuesday quoted top officials as saying. The officials attending China's annual session of parliament hit out at the Dalai Lama, calling him a "wolf in monk's robes" and saying he did not have the right to decide how his successor would be chosen. "There will be little repercussions (when the Dalai Lama dies) due to religious factors, but we will take that into consideration and will surely guarantee long-term political stability in Tibet," the Global Times quoted Qiangba Puncog, head of the region's parliamentary delegation, as saying. "I dare not say that Tibet will not see any incidents, big or small, forever, but I dare say that the current situation in Tibet is on the whole stable," the former regional governor said Monday. "The Tibetan people wish for stability and object to trouble-making." China has long viewed the 76-year-old Dalai Lama as a "splittist" seeking to separate Tibet from China -- charges that the 1989 Nobel peace prize winner has repeatedly denied. His thorny relationship with China's Communist rulers has led him to state that he would have no misgivings ending the centuries-old tradition of relying on high-ranking monks to choose his reincarnated successor after he dies. The current governor of Tibet, Padma Choling, said the Dalai Lama was in no position to make that decision. "I am afraid it is not up to anyone to abolish the reincarnation institution," the paper quoted him as saying. "What he says does not count ... we must respect the historical institutions and religious rituals of Tibetan Buddhism." Traditionally, the search for the Dalai Lama's reincarnated successor was conducted by the region's high lamas. But China's officially atheist Communist Party-ruled government has claimed the right to intervene, citing a precedent set by a past emperor. Tibet's top Communist Party official Zhang Qingli further blamed the Dalai Lama for instigating anti-Chinese riots in Tibet three years ago that turned deadly in Lhasa and spread to other Tibetan-populated regions in China. The London-based pressure group Free Tibet immediately condemned the officials' remarks as "another high point of farce" in China's attempt to vilify the spiritual leader and exert control over Tibet. "Stamping out loyalty and devotion to the current Dalai Lama and eradicating his influence in Tibetan society, to the extent of banning photographs of him, is central in China's Tibet policy," Free Tibet Director Stephanie Brigden said in a statement. "Efforts to control his reincarnation have subsequently been put at the centre of China's policies to cement its rule in Tibet."
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