Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing

“If the next Dalai Lama is declared to have been reincarnated abroad, I think it is illegal,” Li Decheng, deputy director general of the official China Tibetology Research Centre, told a forum in Beijing on Thursday. “He cannot be recognised,” Li added. The forum, organised by the All-China Journalists Association and open to reporters and diplomats, was held to explain the reincarnation system of Tibetan Buddhism’s living Buddhas.

In a book published earlier this month, the Dalai Lama unnerved Beijing by saying that he would be reincarnated as a child born outside China..