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Conflict is brewing over who will succeed the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is turning 90 and has announced that he will be reincarnated – but China also wants to choose his successor.
Dalai Lama's great escape: How India stood by Tibetan spiritual leader and how Dharamshala became his headquarters
Tenzin Gyatso,  the 14th Dalai Lama, was only 23 years old when he fled Tibet in March 1959 into China. His arduous journey, which started from Lhasa where he disguised himself as a Chinese soldier, ...
Dalai Lama, god-king for Tibetan Buddhists, will have a successor. That decision is consequential
The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for ...
Dalai Lama says Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, AP explains
The Dalai Lama said Wednesday there will be a successor after his death. But China insists that it alone has the authority to ...
Dalai Lama's succession plans renews China tussle: What does 'Dalai Lama' mean? How it became a political title?
The elderly Dalai Lama, earlier this week, assured followers that upon his death, he would be reincarnated as the next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and spelt out a succession process, setting ...
'Does India have strategy to counter Beijing's plan?': Brahma Chellaney on China's plans to seize control of Dalai Lama institution
The analyst also mentioned that if Beijing is successful in tightening its iron hand on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, then the ...
India backs Dalai Lama's position on successor, contradicting China
A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify his successor as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a rare comment ...
Tibet Succession: China Rattled By Dalai Lama’s Statement – What Did He Say?
Who will be the next Dalai Lama? The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has spoken. His words stirred a hornet’s nest in ...
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India snubs China on Dalai Lama succession plan
A day after China said that the Dalai Lama's successor would be chosen following its seal of approval, India on Thursday made ...
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Dalai Lama Affirms Centuries Old Tradition Of Picking Successor To Continue, China Balks
DHARAMSHALA – As he approaches his 90th birthday, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, announced on July 1 ...
In snub to China, India says only Dalai can pick successor
India has firmly rejected China's claim regarding the selection of the next Dalai Lama, asserting that the decision rests ...
At 90, the Dalai Lama braces for final showdown with Beijing: his reincarnation
For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...