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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Theravada Buddhism: who will succeed a 90-year-old Dalai Lama?

DATELINE:

Dharamsala, INDIA

The Dalai Lama has spent decades in exile

thinking about ways to prevent the Chinese

government from taking control of Tibetan

Buddhism after his death and ending the

struggle for Tibetan autonomy.

Wednesday July 2, 2025 as monks filed

into a much-anticipated conference at

Dharamsala,

as part of a 90th birthday party

for the Dalai Lama, he made it

clear that tradition would prevail.

The institution would continue

and his successor will be selected

through the usual process of 

reincarnation. His office will have

"sole authority" in identifying

the next Dalai Lama.

SOURCE: NYTimes.com/

world/Asia/dalai-lama-successor-tibet-china.html

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