Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama confirmed on Wednesday that he will reincarnate and that his Zurich-based foundation has the sole authority to identify his reincarnation, defying Beijing, which sees the Dalai Lama as a separatist.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate made the announcement in a video message days before his 90th birthday, in Dharamshala, northern India, where he has lived in exile for the past 65 years after escaping communist rule in China.
The confirmation ended years of speculation that he could become the last Dalai Lama, ending a succession of reincarnations that lasted more than 500 years.
The Dalai Lama stressed that his Gaden Phodrang Trust “has sole authority to recognize the future reincarnation,” and “no one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter.”…
Dalai Lama Confirms Plans for a Successor, Defying Beijing
