Why does China care who the following Dalai Lama is? | Daily Podcast
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The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is popping 90 and has confirmed – after years of uncertainty – that he could have a successor after his dying and won’t selected to finish the road.
In Tibetan Buddhist custom, the Dalai Lama is reincarnated after they die. Monks search, choose, and college a successor – normally a toddler. The present Dalai Lama was recognised on the age of two. He and an estimated 150,000 Tibetans now stay in exile in India, and different nations, after China annexed Tibet a long time in the past.
And that makes who the following Dalai Lama is, a priority of China’s.
Joining Matt Barbett is Professor Robert Barnett, who based the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University and is now at University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He has additionally met the Dalai Lama a number of instances.
Producers: Soila Apparicio and Emma Rae Woodhouse
Digital Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Wendy Parker
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