00:00The school of ひなりんししさで
00:04じじぎゅうき
00:07みろまつ じみゅうきとね
00:11だって ひなりんししこぐどうせね
00:13たししゃよな
00:15でたがたししゃしわ かだ
00:30July 6, 2025
00:46A landmark day not just for Tibetans
00:50but for millions across the world.
00:53His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
00:55the revered symbol of compassion,
00:58peace and resistance turns 90.
01:02His journey from a village in the Tibet
01:04to the halls of the Nobel Peace Prize
01:07is one of faith, exile, resilience
01:11and global spiritual leadership.
01:16But behind the celebrations
01:17lies a growing anxiety.
01:20Tibet's future remains uncertain
01:23and so does the future
01:26of the Dalai Lama institution itself.
01:33Born on July 6, 1935
01:35to a farming family
01:37in the village of Takser,
01:39he was just two
01:40when High Lamas identified him
01:42as the reincarnation
01:44of the 13th Dalai Lama.
01:46He was given a name
01:48as long as his destiny.
01:50Jetsun Jomphel Engawang
01:53Lobsang Yeshi
01:54Tenzin Gyatso
01:55Holy Lord, Gentle Glory
01:58Compassionate, Defender of the Faith
02:01and Ocean of Wisdom
02:03Taken to the thousand-room Potala Palace
02:07in Lhasa,
02:08he was trained in Buddhist philosophy,
02:10metaphysics and governance.
02:12But childhood ended abruptly
02:15in 1950
02:16when the Chinese army
02:18invaded Tibet.
02:20At just 15,
02:21he was enthroned
02:22as head of state.
02:25Nine years later,
02:26on March 10, 1959,
02:29a massive uprising
02:30erupted in Lhasa.
02:32It was crushed.
02:33The Dalai Lama fled.
02:35It took him
02:3713 harrowing days
02:39to cross the Himalayas.
02:41He reached India,
02:42never to return to Tibet.
02:47In the quiet hill town
02:49of Dharamsala,
02:50the Dalai Lama rebuilt
02:51his shattered nation in exile.
02:55Thousands of Tibetans followed.
02:57They preserved language,
02:59rituals,
03:00culture
03:01and above all,
03:02hope.
03:03He launched
03:04a global campaign for Tibet,
03:06not demanding independence,
03:08but seeking a middle way,
03:10genuine autonomy
03:11under Chinese sovereignty.
03:14His moral authority grew.
03:16In 1989,
03:17he was awarded
03:18the Nobel Peace Prize
03:19for advocating
03:20reconciliation
03:22despite brutal oppression.
03:25Clad in maroon robes,
03:27simple sandals
03:28and wide-rimmed glasses,
03:30he became
03:31an unlikely celebrity.
03:33His mischief and humour
03:36were magnetic.
03:37Once,
03:38he even joked
03:39that he might reincarnate
03:40as a blonde woman.
03:43But Beijing remained unmoved,
03:45branding him a separatist
03:47and a wolf
03:49in monks' robes.
03:50He is more than a spiritual icon.
03:54The Dalai Lama
03:55is a philosopher,
03:57an environmentalist,
03:58a peacemaker.
04:00He has authored
04:01dozens of books
04:02on meditation,
04:03ethics,
04:04politics,
04:05happiness
04:06and even science.
04:07Forbid U.N.
04:08Forbid U.N.
04:10Forbid U.N.
04:11Forbid U.N.
04:41With his 90th birthday, the world awaited his decision.
05:07Would there be a 15 Dalai Lama?
05:10That answer has now arrived.
05:14The Dalai Lama announced on July 2nd that the 600-year-old Tibetan spiritual institution
05:21will continue after his death, a landmark reassurance for Tibetans in exile and Buddhist followers worldwide.
05:30He said his office, the India-based Gaden Fortrang Trust, would have exclusive responsibility
05:39for identifying his successor, even as China insisted it would.
05:45The Dalai Lama announced on July 2nd, which is the first time he was born in the U.S.
05:50and the first time he was born in the U.S., the first time he was born in the U.S.
05:57and the first time he was born in the U.S.
06:01The Dalai Lama announced on July 2nd, which was the first time he was born in the U.S.
06:19He said he had received countless appeals over the past 14 years from Tibetans in exile, across
06:40the Himalayas, from Mongolia, Russia, China and even from within Tibet, urging him to let
06:47the institution continue.
06:50China, meanwhile, reiterated its claim.
06:53The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama must be approved by the central government.
06:59It says this would involve drawing lots from a golden urn, a method Beijing insists upon,
07:05but the Dalai Lama calls spiritually hollow.
07:12How do you identify the reincarnation of a spiritual leader?
07:16The process is part faith, part mysticism, part ritual.
07:22Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of Avalokiteshwara, the Bodhisattva
07:29of Compassion.
07:30The current Dalai Lama was chosen after passing tests, recognizing objects of his predecessor
07:37as a toddler.
07:39Other methods include consulting oracles, especially Ni-Chang, a trance medium of protected deity
07:47Do-je-drak-den, reading signs and visions such as rainbows or dreams, divination rituals,
07:55dreams inside door balls.
07:58The golden urn, a practice enforced by Chinese emperors and now controversially held by Beijing.
08:05Some Dalai Lamas were hidden during turbulent times.
08:09One pretended to be on retreat for 15 years.
08:13Another wore eye shadow to impersonate the deceased leader for visitors.
08:18Secrecy has always protected authenticity.
08:22Now it must shield against political manipulation.
08:27Interestingly, the Dalai Lama earlier said he will leave clear written instructions for the
08:33future.
08:34But he has alternatively suggested his successor could be a girl or an insect or that his spirit
08:41could transfer or emanate to an adult.
08:48In Dharamshala and beyond, Tibetans reflect with pride and worry.
08:53For nearly 90 years, the Dalai Lama has served as a symbol.
08:58But to those closest to him, he remains a humble monk.
09:03His long-time translator Thupten Jinpa describes the importance of the Dalai Lama.
09:09The idea of a world where there is no Dalai Lama is almost unthinkable.
09:17And I know for a fact that he has received petitions from across the Tibetan Buddhist world,
09:22including some from inside Tibet in a confidential way.
09:26And then when we think of the Dalai Lama, it is important to think beyond the Tibetan people.
09:32Because the Tibetan Buddhism covers a massive amount of space.
09:37From a nationhood perspective, it is confined to the Tibetan people.
09:41But from a religious, spiritual perspective, it goes way beyond the Tibetan borders.
09:46So I think there is a lot of stake, not just for the Tibetans, but also for entire community
09:52in these regions to make sure that the name Dalai Lama and the institution continues.
09:59So in some sense, the Dalai Lama institution is like the papal institution for the Tibetan Buddhist world.
10:05My hope is that, you know, before his birthday, on July the 6th, his all-in-his-will issue a formal statement.
10:13Now, if my guess is right, and if he says that the continuity of the institution will remain,
10:20which means then there will be a new Dalai Lama after he's gone.
10:23Personally, I don't think it's going to work.
10:26Because a large part of the power of the institution and its mystique is precisely because of that system
10:37of finding a new child from completely—I mean, the present Dalai Lama was born to a peasant family.
10:44His parents were uneducated, illiterate.
10:47I mean, that is the beauty of the system.
10:50Pension Lama that they have chosen, everybody calls the Chinese pension and false pension.
10:55Same thing will happen.
10:57You know, the loyalty is to here, and nothing China does can actually shift that.
11:04They can suppress, they can ban—you know, the current Dalai Lama's photographs are banned into that.
11:10They can ban, they can force, but you can never change people's heart.
11:17What's in the heart belongs to the individual.
11:20As he turns 90, the Dalai Lama's body grows frail, but his voice, his mission, his message remains unshaken.
11:33He has said he wants to live to 113 years.
11:38But more importantly, he wants the Tibetan identity, faith, and dream to outlive him.
11:46Tibetans wait.
11:48The world watches.
11:50China hovers.
11:52But the next Dalai Lama, if he or she is to be found, will come not from force, but from faith.
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