Barbaras Buddhism Blog Can a Dalai Lama Resign?
Can a Dalai Lama Resign? Tuesday March 18, 2008 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) [This post has been updated. Please click “Read more” below to read the updates.] Jeremy Page reports from Kathmandu for the Times of London that His Holiness the Dalai Lama “hit back at Chinese leaders and Tibetan radicals today by threatening to ‘resign’ if violence in Tibet escalated.” His Holiness also declared that independence was out of the question,” and he urged the Tibetan people to live side by side with the Chinese. “If things become out of control then my only option is to completely resign,” the Dalai Lama said. “Even 1,000 Tibetans sacrificed their life, not much help,” he continued. “Please help stop violence from Chinese side and also from Tibetan side.” It’s questionable whether a Dalai Lama can, in fact, resign, or precisely from what he would be resigning. The Dalai Lama is the he
