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Successor of Dalai Lama
Issue 49, December 09, 2007
On November 27, 2007, speaking in Amritsar, northern India, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama told the BBC that Tibetans have to decide his successor if the institution should continue at all after his death. He said that Tibet would reject a Chinese-picked successor. Traditionally, Tibetan senior Buddhists congregate after the death of the Dalai Lama and identify a young boy as the incarnation of the Dalai Lama based on the religious rituals and testing him by showing the belongings of Dalai Lama and letting him identify as his own.
China has been occupying Tibet since 1950. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet after the failed uprising against the Chinese rule in 1959. Since then the Dalai Lama has been living in exile in India.
