China considers the Dalai Lama a separatist. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The discovery of the next Dalai Lama will be carried out by the Chinese government, and not under the current Dalai Lama’s directions, a Chinese Communist Party committee official for Tibet said on Tuesday (August 5, 2025). China considers the Dalai Lama a…
Last Updated:July 13, 2025, 18:06 IST China said India should be aware that the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation and succession is an “inherently internal affair of China, brooking no interference of any external forces” China said it attaches importance to the protection and development of ethnic minority cultures. (Image: @ChinaSpox_India/X) Ahead of External Affairs Minister S…
The succession of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is a thorn in China-India relations, the Chinese embassy in New Delhi said on Sunday, as India’s foreign minister prepares to visit China for the first time since deadly border clashes in 2020. Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar is scheduled to visit China to…
The succession of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is a thorn in China-India relations, the Chinese embassy in New Delhi said on Sunday, as India’s foreign minister prepares to visit China for the first time since deadly border clashes in 2020. Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar is scheduled to visit China to…
“Looking at your face, I now realise I must be very old too… Thank you very much… I’m very very happy to meet such an old member of the Assam Rifles who guarded and escorted me to India 58 years ago,” said the 81-year-old emotional and gracious Dalai Lama in 2017. He was meeting 79-year-old…
With the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader, soon to turn 90, the issue of how to identify his successor, traditionally viewed as his reincarnation, is a key issue facing Tibet’s government-in-exile and China, which took control of the Himalayan region more than 70 years ago. While China has claimed the sole authority to determine…