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The Dalai Lama is a political exile who has “no right to represent the Tibetan ... Tibetan tradition holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a child on ...

The Dalai Lama's successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan region he ...

In Tibetan tradition, it is believed that when a senior Buddhist monk passes away, his soul ... regime has no legitimate authority over the reincarnation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Even living Buddhas aren’t above the law in China. A new book written by the Dalai Lama, the highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism and considered the manifestation of bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara ...

Tibetan tradition holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. The current Dalai Lama was identified ... will continue “no matter what ...

The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader said in his new book. This is the first time the 89-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader has explicitly said that his ...

FILE PHOTO: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is escorted into a hall by red-robed monks holding his hands at his Himalayan residence in Dharamshala ...

Tibetan tradition holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. The current Dalai Lama was identified ... will continue "no matter what ...