Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist ...

A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...

The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for ...

The Dalai Lama said Wednesday there will be a successor after his death. But China insists that it alone has the authority to ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching ...

Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama can choose the body into which he is reincarnated. His succession plan is ...

In a rebuke to China, the Tibetan spiritual leader says only his foundation has the power to recognise his successor.

The Dalai Lama said that the 600-year-old institution will continue after his death and that he would have a successor after ...

The search for a Dalai Lama's reincarnation begins only upon the incumbent's death. In the past, the successor has been identified by senior monastic disciples, based on spiritual signs and ...