When the Dalai Lama voiced support in favour of conservation efforts targeting the royal Bengal tiger, the Tibetans in China stopped using tiger body parts for any kind of use.
The process to choose the next Dalai Lama will be a tortuous one and will begin only when the incumbent is no more. While the man himself once said he might be the last Dalai Lama, it is unlikely.
No one knows where the search for the next Dalai Lama will happen. Will it include Chinese Tibet? But the Dalai Lama has insisted his reincarnation 'will be born only in a free country.'
Tibetan activists and leaders brush off fears that uncertainty will be the result of this power vacuum. The Tibetan government-in-exile funds the rituals performed to bless the Dalai Lama with a long life from its own budget -- for there can be no doubt that Brand Dalai Lama is worth more than just the sum of money that flows into his charitable institutions.
Image: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, leaves after visiting the Birla Mandir (temple) in New Delhi. | Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
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