COMMENT: The Dalai Lama’s death and reincarnation will be a defining moment for Indian politics
Published by IntelliNews By Ben Aris in Berlin At the heart of the Tibetan plateau lies a profound challenge for India’s foreign policy: the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. Already 89 years old, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dali Lama and head of the Buddhist Yellow Hat sect, says himself that he is not long for this world and has suggested that he may be the last of his line. The problem is that when he dies, the race will be on to find a reincarnation to replace him and that China has already said that the fifteenth Dali Lama will