In a book published earlier this month, the Dalai Lama unnerved Beijing by saying that he would be reincarnated as a child born outside China.

The office of the Dalai Lama, who has in recent years apologised for remarks he made about women and to a young child, referred an interview request to the Sikyong. Most historians say Tibet was ...

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 as the reincarnation of his predecessor ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The fourteenth Dalai Lama has written scores of books, most of them about ...

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 ...

In Tibetan tradition, it is believed that when a senior Buddhist monk passes away, his soul is reincarnated in the body of a child. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was recognised as the ...

Dharamshala: The Dalai Lama, who will turn 90 on July 6, has said that his successor as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism will be born in the “free world”, in an apparent reference to ...

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 as the reincarnation of his predecessor ...