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Dalai Lama Confirms Succession Plans Amid Chinese Calls For Approval

The whole business of succession would be a lot simpler if the Dalai Lama could just regenerate, like Doctor Who. When the time comes for The Doctor to stop looking like David Tennant and start looking like Matt Smith, there’s flame coming out of his head and gushing out of his sleeves, and then he explodes. When the smoke clears, there’s the new Doctor.

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Dalai Lama Confirms Succession Plans Amid Chinese Calls For Approval

12 hours ago·New Delhi, India

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The Renaissance of the Dalai Lama: Why China Wants to Interfere – «Nzz Accent»

The spiritual head of the Tibetans is a thorn in the eye of the government in Beijing. Too famous, too popular, too unifying is the 14th Dalai Lama. But now China has a chance to break the power of the Tibetan spiritual identification figure.

13 hours ago·Zürich, Switzerland

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Dalai Lama Succession: Who Is Gyaltsen Norbu, The Panchen Lama Backed by Beijing

In the heart of one of the world’s most sensitive spiritual and geopolitical conflicts lies a figure virtually unknown outside China: Gyaltsen Norbu, the Panchen Lama appointed by Beijing. While the 14th Dalai Lama remains in exile in India, the question of his eventual succession and who controls it has emerged as a battleground between the Chinese government and the Tibetan Buddhist community in exile. China’s appointment of Norbu as the 11th …

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