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While recognizing the reincarnation of a religious leader in Tibetan Buddhism is a process that intrinsically involves religious beliefs and practices, the fact that this practice and political power have been tangled for a long time in Tibet while the next Dalai Lama will matter to Tibetans both inside Tibet and in exile mean that there will almost certainly be two Dalai Lamas after the current one, writes Saurabh Chauhan.*
Who gets to decide the next Dalai Lama? That question sits at the centre of a quiet but serious fight between the Tibetan exile community and the Chinese government. For Tibetans, this has always been a religious matter. For ‘atheist’ Beijing, it’s...
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