Quoted by Reuters
The Buddhist monk in charge of protecting the Dalai Lama and predicting the future of the Tibetan people is thinking about the major obstacles that lie ahead in the serene surroundings of a monastery in Dharamsala, India.
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As the 14th in his line of succession approaches 89 years old, there is increasing doubt over who will succeed him, particularly given China’s insistence on selecting a new leader.
Although, Dalai Lama has expressed his plans to clarify the succession process around his 90th birthday.
“His Holiness is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, then there will be a fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth,” the medium, known as the Nechung, said. “In countries, leaders change, and then that story is over. But in Tibet, it works differently.”
Dalai Lama is currently recuperating in the United States from a medical procedure.
China, seeing the current Dalai Lama as a potential separatist threat, is adamant about choosing the next Dalai Lama.
Tension is likely to arise over Beijing’s selection of the Dalai Lama’s successor.
China is determined to select the future Dalai Lama because it views the current Dalai Lama as a possible separatist threat.
Beijing’s choice of the Dalai Lama’s successor is sure to cause tension.
