Dalai Lama has no authority over reincarnation system: Chinese envoy to India

08-Jul-2025

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China’s Ambassador to India, Xu Feihong, said on July 6 that the Dalai Lama does not have the power to decide if the Tibetan Buddhist reincarnation system should continue. 

He claimed that the 14th Dalai Lama is part of a centuries-old religious tradition and cannot change it on his own.

"The reincarnation system of Living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism has existed for over 700 years," Xu said in a post on social media platform X. “Currently, there are more than 1,000 such systems in Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, and Qinghai.”