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While the Dalai Lama succession question sits right at the center of China’s quest to redefine and remake Tibet in its own image, spiritual legitimacy can’t be granted by government order; states can compete for influence, but the next Dalai Lama’s real authority will come from the Tibetan Buddhist community and the wider Buddhist world, writes Saurabh Chauhan.*
Every time the Dalai Lama appears in public these days, there’s this quiet question hanging in the air. You hear it in monasteries, in conversations among Tibetans and in diplomatic backrooms across Asia: what happens when he’s gone?
His 91st birthday celebrations in Leh this July felt both j...
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