{"id":74253,"date":"2011-03-10T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=74253"},"modified":"2011-03-10T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:04:10","slug":"dalai-lama-says-resigning-as-tibet-political-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/10\/dalai-lama-says-resigning-as-tibet-political-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama Says Resigning as Tibet Political Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dalai Lama has announced that he is stepping down as political leader of the Tibetan government in exile, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/dalai_lama_tibet_resigning_as_political_leader\/2333550.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>RFE\/RL<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old Buddhist monk made the announcement today in Dharamsala, the northern Indian town that serves as the home of the exiled Tibetan government, in a speech marking the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese control.<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama said it was time to move forward with an elected political leader of the movement, but that he will remain Tibet&#8217;s spiritual leader.<\/p>\n<p>The Tibetan exile parliament is expected to discuss changes at the top of the political leadership in a session scheduled to begin next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after the failed uprising against Chinese rule of the Himalayan territory.<\/p>\n<p>The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate says he now supports meaningful autonomy for Tibet within China.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has described him as a separatist responsible for stirring up unrest in Tibet.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 75-year-old Buddhist monk made the announcement today in Dharamsala, the northern Indian town that serves as the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23189,23190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}