Monitored by: BBC SWB 27 May 1995

Source: Xinhua news agency domestic service, Beijing, in

Chinese 1525 gait 25 May 95

Text of report by Xinhua news agency

Lhasa, 25th May: Resolution of the third session of the Sixth

Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress on Dalai Lama's unlawful

act of arbitrarily proclaiming Panchen's reincarnation

(adopted toy the third session of the Sixth Tibet Autonomous

Region People's Congress on 25th May 1995)

For the sake of safeguarding the motherland's unification,

opposing separation and safeguarding the gratifying situation

characterized by Tibet's social stability, harmony and unity, the

following resolution has been adopted in connection with the Dalai

Lama's unlawful act of arbitrarily proclaiming Panchen 's

reincarnation:

1. With regard to the issue about the reincarnation of Living

Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism, it has been known to all that, ever

since the system of "drawing lots from a golden vessel"

promulgated by the central government of the Qing dynasty in 1792,

several reincarnations of Dalai and Panchen Lamas are to be found

according to religious rites and procedures. Then, with the

approval of the central government, a "lot-drawing from a golden

vessel" is to be held among the potential children in front of

Sakyamuni's statue, and the one selected should finally be

forwarded to the central government for official approval. This

has been a historical convention as well as an established system.

After the 10th Panchen Lama died, the Party Central Committee and

the State Council showed great concern for and attached importance

to the issue of finding his reincarnation, and promptly came up

with the decision concerning 'the search and confirmation of the

reincarnation and the referral of it to the State Council for

approval". Over the past six years or so, the reincarnation search

group formed by people within Tibet's Buddhist circles

has accomplished a great deal of work and made important headway

in this regard according to religious rites and procedures.

However, just when the search is set to reach its final

confirmation stage according to procedures and religious rites

as well as historical convention, the Dalai Lama disregarded the

established historical system, disrupted the religious rites, went

against the will of people of all nationalities and the vast

number of believers, monks and nuns in Tibet, and suddenly and

arbitrarily proclaimed in India on 14th May 1995 that a boy in

Tibet was "Panchen's reincarnation". This announcement is totally

unlawful and invalid. People of all nationalities and the vast

number of religious believers, monks and nuns in Tibet are greatly

indignant over the announcement and firmly object to it.

2. Since his desertion from Tibet several decades ago, the

Dalai Lama, the ringleader of the separatist clique, has long been

engaged in confronting the central government and in splitting the

motherland and sabotaging national solidarity. After suffering

defeat in a series of political ventures to divide the motherland,

he now again uses the issue of the Panchen Lama's reincarnation to

launch his separatist activities, trying to cheat certain people

who do not understand the historical convention. religious rites

and the truth, and upset the normal process of finding the Panchen

Lama's reincarnation in a vain attempt to achieve his sinful

objective of splitting the motherland, obstructing Tibet's

economic development, creating unrest in Tibet. and undermining

our region's social stability, harmony and unity. The interference

and sabotage he has long conspired in have once again exposed the

reactionary nature of the Dalai Lama's separatist clique.

3. We firmly believe that, with the solicitude shown by the

Party Central Committee and the State Council. the guidance of the

regional party committee, and the support of people of all

nationalities in Tibet, the search for and confirmation of the

10th Panchen Lama's reincarnation certainly can be successfully

accomplished without interference according to the State Council's

decision, as well as religious rites and procedures and the

established historical system.

The session exhorts the vast number of people throughout Tibet to

recognize the Dalai clique's reactionary nature, to expose the

Dalai Lama's conspiracies, to firmly maintain a high degree of

unity with the Party Central Committee and the State 'Council, to

be firm, to take a clear-cut stand in fighting the Dalai clique's

unlawful disruption of the search for the 10th Panchen Lama's

reincarnation, to work with one heart and one mind, to safeguard

the central government's authority, to earnestly implement the

guidelines laid down by the Third Central Forum on Tibetan

Affairs, to ensure Tibet's stability and development, and to

expedite social progress in all sectors in Tibet.