Building Bridges with Buddhism: The Sino-Indian Experience
... influence the succession of the Dalai Lama. It used the 2006 World Buddhist Forum conference, for instance, to showcase the Beijing-anointed Panchen Lama as the successor to the Dalai Lama [17] . India’s Buddhist diplomacy Unlike China, which used Buddhism as a soft power resource right from the 1950s, it is only in recent years that India has seriously adopted Buddhist diplomacy. In 2011, Delhi played host to the first Global Buddhist Congregation, attended by scholars and monks from 32 countries [18] . Then,...
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