Monday, April 15, 2024

Does His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama advocate Laicism?

For now, we do seriously need to give a close look at 'why His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet willingly devolved his centuries old full political authority to a people-elected leader (Kalontripa to  Sikyong) at the outset of 2011, with his half onus of it having already passed on to the same leader of Tibetans diaspora.' He has now and again emphasized on the need of clear demarcation between the religious and political institutions, namely political or worldly deeds for the laity and spiritual deeds for the ordained. From this very act, not just speech and moralizing over, it can be perceived that he advocates laicism at institutional level, namely at functioning level. But at the same time, he has emphasized on the co-existence of, as per the Western term, 'church and state' and that at individual level, namely a politician or a political leader with a strong moral fiber shall prove more domos-oriented or come out as the real utilitarian doer of a public servant. 

Though our democracy in exile is still nascent, thanks for the grandness of HHDL's view and vision and courage, we are proudly sort of one hundred years ahead of those states where a commoner or plebeian can't sound off a phrase of dissatisfaction or being disgruntled against his leader or king or monarch, etc. But we should still work hard to pave the way for that clear demarcation between the two institutions that are sort of more or less jumbled for the time being.