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ttp://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/01/china_india_and_karmapa_lama The Karmapa's comeuppance? Jan 31st 2011, 17:09 by Banyan
The suspicion is that some of the money came from China, for the Karmapa to use to buy influence in Tibetan
monasteries in India, notably in Sikkim?where the 16th Karmapa had his seat at Rumtek monastery. On January 31st
India’s home minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, said no conclusion had been drawn as to whether he was a Chinese
agent or not. China’s government, for its part, has felt moved to deny that it sent a living Buddha into India to spy for
it, and has lamented the “mistrustful attitude” the Indian suspicions betray.
疑惑がもたれているのは、一部の金が中国から贈られ、インドに於けるチベット仏教の僧院に対するカルマパの影響力を
中国が買っているのでは、というもの。インド内務相は彼が中国のエージェントであるか否かについて結論は出ていない
と述べている。中国側は関与を否定している。
It does seem incredible that China and the Karmapa are in cahoots, or even that China connived in his escape and has
been using him as a stooge. His flight to India was humiliating for China: even a young monk it had feted and nurtured to
help bolster its rule in Tibet rejected it in the most dramatic way. But as I suggested in my print column on January 8th,
the ructions the Karmapa disputes have caused among exiled Tibetans may have given China the last laugh.
カルマパと中国の共謀というのは信じがたい話に見えて、中国が彼のインドへの脱出を黙認し、スパイ役に使うというのも
ちょっと在り得なさそうだが、この大騒ぎでインド在住のチベット人の間にカルマパについて混乱が起こることは中国にとって
喜ばしいかもしれない。
They also have implications for another theme of that column?the Dalai Lama’s hints at his own retirement from
political involvement. The Karmapa is perhaps the only other exile who could come close to unifying Tibetans. His
troubles make the Dalai Lama’s hopes of a retreat into a purely religious role even harder to realise.
ダライ・ラマは政治シーンからの引退を暗示していて、そうなればチベット人の統合の象徴になり得るのはカルマパだけで
ある。カルマパの騒動はダライラマの引退の希望にも影を投げることになる。