Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama confirmed that he will have a successor when he dies. It is a landmark decision for Tibetans, many of whom had feared a future without a leader. the Dalai Lama said his...

The Dalai Lama yesterday assured his followers that upon his death he would be reincarnated as the next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and spelled out a succession process that sets up a renewed clash with China.

The confusion is hardly surprising — Taiwan’s government is ruled under a Constitution written for a faraway mid-20th-century Chinese government founded when Taiwan was a Japanese colony

The Dalai Lama on Wednesday affirmed that he should have a successor and said the next Dalai Lama should be chosen by the Gaden Phodrang Trust, a non-profit group that he set up — rejecting moves by China to steer his succession.

Tibetans say the statement of Dalai Lama making clear that he would have a successor is a direct message to China

Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama declared that the institution of the Dalai Lama would persist, with the Gaden Phodrang Trust holding sole authority to recognize his future reincarnation, dismissing China's claims. He clarified that the next...

The Tibetan spiritual leader has told followers that 'no one else has any such authority to interfere.'

The BBC speaks to Tibetans in Aba, which has long been at the heart of resistance to Chinese rule.

This comes after Dalai Lama declared that the Gaden Phodrang Trust, a non-profit institution he established, has the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation.

(TibetanReview.net, Jul02’25) – The Dalai Lama has on Jul 2 made public to reaffirm what he has already repeatedly indicated before, including in his most recently published book, that his reincarnation will continue and the search for the 15th...