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"What will happen when the Dalai Lama leaves this world? As a spiritual adept who wishes to continue helping others achieve enlightenment, the Dalai Lama is believed by Tibetan Buddhists to have the ability to choose the body into which his soul transmigrates. The Chinese government, however, has other ideas." (requires free signup) https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/07/27/china-wants-to-choose-the-next-dalai-lama-he-has-other-plans
@estherschindler I thought the typical way to handle that is that the real Dalai Lama will tell the people around him, on his side, some secret things, that he can then tell them again when he comes back.
I mean, I've used the same tactic on occasion.
If the Chinese government want to prove they have the real one, they'd have to know the right answers, wouldn't they.