Dalai Lama shuts out China, reveals when his successor will be chosen
Dalai Lama
on Wednesday confirmed that he will be reincarnated after his death and made it clear that no government, group, or outside force has
any
authority to interfere in the sacred process of choosing his successor.
He said the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue and the Gaden Phodrang trust has sole authority to recognise the future reincarnation, ending years of waiting by followers of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader for details about his succession.
"I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue", he said in a video broadcast at the start of a meeting of religious leaders in the Indian Himalayan town where he has lived for decades.
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