Kalon Tripa Speaks on the Future Prospects for Tibet
Monday, 16 June 2008, 5:49 p.m.
 KalonTripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche delivers a keynote address on the ‘Future Prospects for Tibet’ at the India International Centre in New Delhi on Monday, 16 June 2008/Photo: Tenzin Dasel, Phayul Online Website |
Dharamshala: Kalon Tripa
Samdhong Rinpoche, head of the Kashag of the Central Tibetan
Administration delivered a keynote address on the ‘Future Prospects for
Tibet’ at the India International Centre in New Delhi on Monday.
The lecture was convened by Dalip Mehta, the former ambassador of
India to Bhutan and Trustee of the Foundation for Universal
Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Around thirty people, including officials serving in the Indian
government, retired officials and senior correspondents attended at the
lecture.
Speaking on the nature of Tibetan struggle, Kalon Tripa said
the Tibetan struggle is not a political ideological conflict, neither
an ethnic conflict, nor a power struggle, but it is an issue between
truth and false, justice and injustice.
Kalon Tripa said true the nature of Tibetan struggle is the
Tibetan people’s universal responsibility to preserve the precious
Buddhist tradition of immense value to all living beings, which
originated from the great land of India and today not available in any
part of the world.
Kalon Tripa also gave a detail background on the formulation of
the Middle-Way Approach to seek meaningful autonomy instead of
independence in the mid-1970s and after Deng Xiaoping’s declaration
that “except independence” all other issues can be discussed through
negotiations.
Kalon Tripa spoke on the prospects of implementing the
provisions of national regional autonomy to all the Tibetan inhabited
areas, as enshrined in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of
China. If these provisions of Constitution and autonomy law are
implemented in true spirit it will ensure the welfare of Tibetan people
and the protection of Tibet’s unique culture, religion, tradition and
language.
