The Dalai Lama says he hopes to live until he is over 130 years old, a remark he made during a ceremony organized by his ...

The elderly Dalai Lama on Saturday said that he hopes to live for another 40 years until he is about 130 years old, days ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching ...

The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for ...

Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama can choose the body into which he is reincarnated. His succession plan is ...

In a rebuke to China, the Tibetan spiritual leader says only his foundation has the power to recognise his successor.

The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader was speaking during a ceremony organised by his followers to offer prayers for his long life, ahead of his 90th birthday on Sunday. The Dalai Lama previously told ...

Candidates are usually young boys born at about the time of the previous Dalai Lama’s death. But the current Dalai Lama has said that there is no reason why a woman cannot be the next reincarnation.

The search for a Dalai Lama's reincarnation begins only upon the incumbent's death. In the past, the successor has been identified by senior monastic disciples, based on spiritual signs and ...

The Dalai Lama had hinted in earlier statements that he may wish to find his successor before his death. This would mean there would be no gap and no time for China to find its own successor.