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Dalai Lama, On Eve Of 90th, Aims To Live For Decades More

The Dalai Lama said Saturday he dreamed of living for decades more, as the Buddhist spiritual leader prayed with thousands of exiled Tibetans on the eve of his 90th birthday.

International Business Times

Hafta letters: Zohran Mamdani, spending on elections, Dalai Lama and Tibet

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Dalai Lama says he hopes to live another 40 years on eve of 90th birthday

There has been speculation over the succession plan for the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.

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As the Dalai Lama turns 90, photos show the global arc of his life

The Dalai Lama is revered as a deity by millions of Tibetan Buddhists and known worldwide as a resolute voice for peace, spirituality and Tibet ’s autonomy. He is also seen as a threat by China, which accuses him of wanting to wrest Tibet from Beijing's control.

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Prayers For The Dalai Lama In The Heart Of Mongolian Buddhism

Incantations ring out at Mongolia's largest monastery as worshippers pray alongside pictures of the Dalai Lama, whose 90th birthday on Sunday has raised fresh questions about the future of the 600-year-old Tibetan spiritual institution.

International Business Times

China and India spar over Dalai Lama’s succession

Beijing warns New Delhi against interfering in its ‘domestic affairs’

The Independent UK

Dalai Lama, god-king for Tibetan Buddhists, will have a successor. That decision is consequential

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

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Tibetans in exile wonder: Will the next Dalai Lama be as charismatic as this one?

The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death

The Independent UK

How will the next Dalai Lama be chosen?

The next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism may be chosen differently

Evening Standard

Inside the Dalai Lama’s succession and what it means for China and the Tibetan struggle

As he turns 90 this week, the Dalai Lama has announced that he will be reincarnated, setting his followers on a collision course with China. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar speaks to activists and the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile about what this means for the future of Tibetan Buddhism

The Independent UK

Dalai Lama confirms he will have a successor after his death

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

Al Jazeera

How will the next Dalai Lama be chosen – and who could it be?

Dalai Lama confirms that a successor will be chosen. Here’s how – and why it matters to Beijing, Washington, New Delhi.

Al Jazeera

Dalai Lama Says He Will Have Successor After His Death

The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet confirmed Wednesday that he will have a successor when he dies, reassuring Buddhist followers around the globe that the 600-year-old institution of the Dalai Lama will continue.

International Business Times

The Dalai Lama says he plans to reincarnate after his death

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending years speculation that started when he indicated that he might be the last person to hold the role

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Dalai Lama Suggests Institution To Continue At 90th Birthday Launch

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gave on Monday the strongest indication yet that the 600-year-old institution would continue after his death, at prayer celebrations for his 90th birthday.

International Business Times

Tibetans Face Up To Uncertain Future As Dalai Lama Turns 90

Tibetans in exile celebrate the 90th birthday of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama next week, an occasion overshadowed by uncertainty about the future of the role and what it means for their movement.

The Conversation

China’s Everest obsession: following Mallory’s footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain

To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible – giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer heads even reaches their chief’s shoulder. Beside Everest they escape notice, such is the pre-eminence of the greatest. (George Mallory, 1922)

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Hong Kong bans mobile game about overthrowing communist regime

Game lets players pledge allegiance to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Tibet, or Uyghurs

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China's Panchen Lama pledges loyalty to the Communist Party in a meeting with Xi

State media in China says that the man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged adherence to the ruling Communist Party during a rare face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

The Independent UK

Ancient DNA fills ‘critical gap’ in genetic history of Tibetans

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Archaeologists finally crack origin mystery of Tibet’s ‘ghost ancestors’

Study confirms China’s Yunnan province as key crossroads of human migration

The Independent UK

China accused of ‘indoctrinating’ Tibetan children from age of four with state-run boarding schools

Group says lives of Tibetan children are ‘irrevocably altered to serve the purposes of the Chinese government’

The Conversation

Disaster authoritarianism: how autocratic regimes deal with earthquakes

An earthquake that struck south-east Asia in late March is thought to have killed more than 3,000 people in Myanmar, a country ruled by a military junta that has blocked humanitarian aid and continued waging war on quake-ravaged rebel territory.

The Independent UK

Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes southwest Tibet

No casualties have been reported so far

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At The Doorstep Of Tibet: I Traveled And Photographed The Uncharted Part Of Western Sichuan (25 Pics)

I travel from Seda to Yaqing and Dzongsar - Western Sichuan neighbors Tibet on its western edge and most parts of this region are historically connected with Tibet.

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