[Today’s Prayer] China, Dalai Lama succession structure responses with speed… Panchen Lama rises and stability emphasized

As the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is expected to mention the issue of his successor on the occasion of his 90th birthday next month, China's steps to solidify its control over Tibet are also accelerated.

On the 6th of this month , President Xi Jinping met with Panchen Lama Gyalchen Norbu (35), recognized by the Chinese government as the second-highest official in Tibetan Buddhism, at his office in Zhongnanhai, Beijing.

During the meeting, President Xi encouraged him, saying , " Take the 10th Panchen Lama as an example and strive to become a living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism, and make greater contributions to ethnic unity, religious peace, and the stable development and progress of Tibet. "

The city council also emphasized, "I hope that the Panchen Lama will inherit the glorious tradition of 'patriotism and love for religion' of Tibetan Buddhism and firmly safeguard the reunification of the motherland and the unity of the nation, " and "I hope that he will play a better role in solidifying the sense of community of the Chinese nation, systematically promoting the sinicization of religion, and promoting the modernization construction of Tibet.

Gyalchen Norbu presented Xi with a traditional Tibetan scarf called a kata or katak, as a gift and reply, "I will firmly support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and firmly safeguard the reunification of the motherland and the unity of the nation. "

Gyalchen Norbu is the person who the Chinese government unilaterally nominated as the 11th Panchen Lama in 1995 when it intervened in the selection process of the Panchen Lama .

The Dalai Lama, who has led a non-violent independence movementand established a government-in-exile in Dharamsala, northern India, in opposition to Chinese rule, regards him as a “ fake Panchen Lama ” or “ official Panchen Lama ” and does not recognize his legitimacy.

When the 10th Panchen Lama passed away in 1989, the boy Gedun Choekyi Nyima, who the Dalai Lama declared to be his reincarnation, disappeared shortly after his appointment and is known to be living under de facto detention by the Chinese authorities .

The Panchen Lama is the second-highest leader in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama, and has the decisive authority to find his reincarnation and establish him as the new Dalai Lama when the Dalai Lama passes away.

China claims that the appointment of a successor is under the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities when the Dalai Lama dies.

Source: News

Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. (Judges 55:3)

As Tibet approaches the 90th birthday of its leader, the Dalai Lama, we hear of a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's second-in-command, to cement a sense of ethnic Chinese unity and systematically promote the Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism, while asserting that the naming of the Dalai Lama's successor is in the hands of Chinese authorities.

God, the Chinese government is taking away the freedom of the Tibetan people by controlling even the nomination of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

Let the word of truth that overcomes falsehood prevail among the Tibetan people, whose national identity and traditions are rooted in Tibetan Buddhism, and let the hope of your eternal kingdom come first among the Tibetan people.

We believe that it is You who will save the Tibetan people by Your sure favor to David and establish an everlasting covenant in the land of Tibet.

Allow the gospel of life to Tibet in the face of continued persecution by the Chinese government, so that the Tibetan people may come out of their false darkness and receive Jesus Christ as their light!

As the Chinese church and the global church stand in solidarity and pray for the revival of the Tibetan people, may the persecution of the Chinese government and the long-standing lies of Tibetan Buddhism lose their power and the door of salvation be opened to the Tibetan people!

Consequently, would you allow mercy and peace among the suffering Tibetan Christian community, and send missionaries to Tibet and a million great armies to China through the pulpits of the Tibetan Church!

Let the Tibetan people arise as an army of David, bearing the cross of truth and witnessing the gospel to all nations! Let the Tibetan people arise, worshipping in the highest places from China to the ends of the Himalayas!

Let there be seven thousand global Tibetan movements, seven thousand Tibetan church plants, and seven thousand local Tibetan missionaries by 2025!