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Tue Jul 15 2025

Stakes high as Dalai Lama, China clash over choice of successor

Police detain Tibetan exiles during a protest against the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who was scheduled to participate in a G20 foreign ministers' meeting, near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India, March 1, 2023. The 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, has been living in India since fleeing there in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet.

China's insistence that it will identify the next Dalai Lama foreshadows the chance that followers will have to decide who the real successor is.

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