Choosing Next Dalai Lama

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  1. reincarnation
    a second or new birth
    The remarks were among the clearest indications yet that China will appoint a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama after the current Dalai Lama dies, setting off a struggle with exiled Tibetan leaders over religious control of the Chinese territory.
  2. government-in-exile
    a temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their country is liberated
    The Tibetan government-in-exile in India says the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama is a fraud.
  3. endorse
    approve of
    It says the real one, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was endorsed by the Dalai Lama, was abducted with his family in 1995 by the Chinese government and has not been seen since.
  4. culminate
    end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
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    Times Topic: Dalai Lama
    The official, Hao Peng, a deputy party secretary and vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, told a small group of foreign journalists that the selection of reincarnations, what the Chinese call “living Buddhas,” must follow a process that is rooted in history and that culminates in approval of the reincarnations by the central government.
  5. abbot
    the superior of a community of monks
    Chinese officials had announced the Golden Urn ceremony in order to overrule the Dalai Lama’s endorsement of the boy found by a search party led by Chadrel Rinpoche, the abbot of Tashilhunpo Monastery.
  6. political prisoner
    someone who is imprisoned because of their political views
    He was 6 at the time and is called “the world’s youngest political prisoner” by Tibet advocacy groups.
  7. debacle
    a sudden and complete disaster
    Like the Panchen Lama debacle, the selection of a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama by the Chinese would create a scenario of dueling Dalai Lamas, because the 14th Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles in India are already discussing how they will choose the next Dalai Lama.
  8. autonomous
    existing as an independent entity
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    Times Topic: Dalai Lama
    The official, Hao Peng, a deputy party secretary and vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, told a small group of foreign journalists that the selection of reincarnations, what the Chinese call “living Buddhas,” must follow a process that is rooted in history and that culminates in approval of the reincarnations by the central government.
  9. ornate
    marked by complexity and richness of detail
    Mr. Hao was speaking during a news conference in an ornate reception room of the government offices in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
  10. exile
    the act of expelling a person from their native land
    The remarks were among the clearest indications yet that China will appoint a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama after the current Dalai Lama dies, setting off a struggle with exiled Tibetan leaders over religious control of the Chinese territory.
  11. atheist
    someone who denies the existence of god
    Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party, which is officially atheist, insists religious traditions must be followed.
  12. relic
    an antiquity that has survived from the distant past
    The Golden Urn is a relic possessed by China that was used occasionally by the Manchu emperors of the Qing Dynasty to anoint Tibetan lamas in their efforts to exert control over Tibet.
  13. trot
    ride at a gait faster than a walk
    Chinese officials trot him out on ceremonial occasions.
  14. sect
    a subdivision of a larger religious group
    The monastery is the seat of power of the Panchen Lama, the second-ranking lama of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism, behind the Dalai Lama.
  15. exert
    put to use
    The Golden Urn is a relic possessed by China that was used occasionally by the Manchu emperors of the Qing Dynasty to anoint Tibetan lamas in their efforts to exert control over Tibet.
Created on Thu Jul 01 20:27:41 EDT 2010

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