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Posts published in July 2011

Dalai Lama hits out at succession ‘meddling’

The Dalai Lama has ruled out any role to China’s leadership in deciding who succeeds him as the leader of Tibetan Buddhism and called Beijing’s meddling in the issue “a disgrace”. ‘One thing I want to make clear. As far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists,” the 76-year-old Nobel Peace laureate said while delivering his statement for the 52nd anniversary of…