difficult days for the young Urgyen Trinley Dorje, 17th Karmapa, Holder of the main lineage of ' important school of Buddhism Karma Kagyu and now at the heart of a true Himalayan intrigue that seems to come out from the pen of novelists such as Le Carré or Forsyth. On 27 January in the Gyuto monastery (in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh where he has lived since 2000 Urgyen Trinley) joint investigation local police and intelligence services in New Delhi, led to the discovery of a huge sum of money not declared. He speaks the equivalent of more than 60 million rupees (about 950,000 euro) in various currencies including the Chinese yuan. The treasurer of the young blade and two Indian businessmen have been arrested and he was subjected to an interrogation that left quite unsatisfied that the police were evidently believed in the words of the lama who denies any wrongdoing. But the importance of the story is not so much currency in the accident as the fact that for the first printing large areas clearly stated that Indian intelligence believe the 17th Karmapa a pawn in Beijing.
Urgyen Trinley, who was born in 1985 in eastern Tibet, was the first reincarnated lama to be recognized by the Chinese government in 1992 agreed to his settlement in the Tsurphu monastery (central Tibet). But at the end of December 1999, the Karmapa decided to flee Tibet and take refuge in India where he arrived in early January 2000, after an adventurous journey to the limits of human possibilities. Who went immediately from the Dalai Lama, the 17th Karmapa was immediately received by the Tibetan leader who welcomed him and gave him hospitality in the Gyuto Monastery. The news of the blade appeared to escape from this world a serious setback for the Chinese government. Unique to stay But the skeptics were 007 Indians to whom such a daring escape by a group of teenagers (the Karmapa had fled to his sister and a small group of young friends) can overcome both the control of China is a land so hostile it was not appeared clear. In all these ten years there was always rumored that the secret services of Delhi tenessero an eye on the Karmapa (who, incidentally, is disputed by some senior members of his own school who recognized as the 17th Karmapa another young Tibetan , Trinley Thaye Dorje). Now, just when the tension between India and China is at the peak of the last 30, arrives this complicated affair.
Situation imbarazzante anche per il Dalai Lama che in una dichiarazione rilasciata ieri ha auspicato di svolgere indagini più approfondite prima di giungere a conclusioni affrettate sottolineando inoltre che il Karmapa ha molti discepoli cinesi cosa che potrebbe spiegare la presenza dell’ingente somma in yuan ritrovata nel monastero. Meno diplomatica la reazione di numerose organizzazioni tibetane dell’esilio che parlano di grossolano equivoco e in alcuni casi ventilano addirittura la possibilità di trovarsi di fronte a un complotto ai danni del Karmapa. Pechino, da parte sua, ha ovviamente rilasciato una dura smentita. “Le speculazioni che il Karmapa possa essere una spia cinese sono assurde e mostrano solo l’attitudine sospettosa dell’India,” Zhitao said Xu, a member of the CCP Central Committee
At this point the investigation is impossible to say anything definitive. The only thing certain is that if after having crafted a "his" Panchen Lama (the second spiritual authority of Tibet), Beijing was also able to handle the movements of the 17th Karmapa in India, things could not go wrong only for Tibetans but also for New Delhi. In fact, the Karmapa has many followers in the entire Himalayan range that forms the border between China and India from Ladakh to the state of Arunachal Pradesh through Sikkim. One area where there are thousands and thousands of square miles of land the subject of decades of disputes (And a war in 1962) between Beijing and New Delhi. The idea of \u200b\u200ba presence in these areas of religious centers that refer to a spiritual leader controlled by Beijing is a ghost that has long disturbed the sleep of 007 Indians. The discovery of a large sum of money so illegal in the monastery of the 17th Karmapa gave the ghost seems to have consistency on earth.
Piero Verni
Urgyen Trinley, who was born in 1985 in eastern Tibet, was the first reincarnated lama to be recognized by the Chinese government in 1992 agreed to his settlement in the Tsurphu monastery (central Tibet). But at the end of December 1999, the Karmapa decided to flee Tibet and take refuge in India where he arrived in early January 2000, after an adventurous journey to the limits of human possibilities. Who went immediately from the Dalai Lama, the 17th Karmapa was immediately received by the Tibetan leader who welcomed him and gave him hospitality in the Gyuto Monastery. The news of the blade appeared to escape from this world a serious setback for the Chinese government. Unique to stay But the skeptics were 007 Indians to whom such a daring escape by a group of teenagers (the Karmapa had fled to his sister and a small group of young friends) can overcome both the control of China is a land so hostile it was not appeared clear. In all these ten years there was always rumored that the secret services of Delhi tenessero an eye on the Karmapa (who, incidentally, is disputed by some senior members of his own school who recognized as the 17th Karmapa another young Tibetan , Trinley Thaye Dorje). Now, just when the tension between India and China is at the peak of the last 30, arrives this complicated affair.
Situation imbarazzante anche per il Dalai Lama che in una dichiarazione rilasciata ieri ha auspicato di svolgere indagini più approfondite prima di giungere a conclusioni affrettate sottolineando inoltre che il Karmapa ha molti discepoli cinesi cosa che potrebbe spiegare la presenza dell’ingente somma in yuan ritrovata nel monastero. Meno diplomatica la reazione di numerose organizzazioni tibetane dell’esilio che parlano di grossolano equivoco e in alcuni casi ventilano addirittura la possibilità di trovarsi di fronte a un complotto ai danni del Karmapa. Pechino, da parte sua, ha ovviamente rilasciato una dura smentita. “Le speculazioni che il Karmapa possa essere una spia cinese sono assurde e mostrano solo l’attitudine sospettosa dell’India,” Zhitao said Xu, a member of the CCP Central Committee
At this point the investigation is impossible to say anything definitive. The only thing certain is that if after having crafted a "his" Panchen Lama (the second spiritual authority of Tibet), Beijing was also able to handle the movements of the 17th Karmapa in India, things could not go wrong only for Tibetans but also for New Delhi. In fact, the Karmapa has many followers in the entire Himalayan range that forms the border between China and India from Ladakh to the state of Arunachal Pradesh through Sikkim. One area where there are thousands and thousands of square miles of land the subject of decades of disputes (And a war in 1962) between Beijing and New Delhi. The idea of \u200b\u200ba presence in these areas of religious centers that refer to a spiritual leader controlled by Beijing is a ghost that has long disturbed the sleep of 007 Indians. The discovery of a large sum of money so illegal in the monastery of the 17th Karmapa gave the ghost seems to have consistency on earth.
Piero Verni
