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Beijing has indicated that it will not negotiate the selection of a successor to the aging Dalai Lama with him, insisting that it has the final decision on the reincarnated successors to the Buddhist region's top lamas, this according to Padma Choling, governor of the Tibet Autonomous Region, who said there was no need now to discuss the issues related to the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. At present, the succession to the god-king of Tibet has become one of the region’s most sensitive issues. The current and 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is aging. His death could create a leadership vacuum in the Tibetan government-in-exile and among China’s Buddhists that worries both Dharamsala (seat of the government-in-exile) and Beijing.
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Beijing has indicated that it will not negotiate the selection of a successor to the aging Dalai Lama with him, insisting that it has the final decision on the reincarnated successors to the Buddhist region's top lamas, this according to Padma Choling, governor of the Tibet Autonomous Region, who said there was no need now to discuss the issues related to the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. At present, the succession to the god-king of Tibet has become one of the region’s most sensitive issues. The current and 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is aging. His death could create a leadership vacuum in the Tibetan government-in-exile and among China’s Buddhists that worries both Dharamsala (seat of the government-in-exile) and Beijing.
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