Tibet Has a New Dalai Lama
Sunday 31st August
1936
The new and still today current
Dalai Lama was identified in Tibet. His predecessor had died in December 1933
and according to Tibetan belief his spirit had transferred to a child born at
the exact moment of his death. Given the size of Tibet it had taken some time
to collect all the possible children and examine them for the bodily marks that
proved his status.
The return to Tibet of the Tashi
Lama, second in the hierarchy to the Dalai Lama, from China, where he had been
in exile since 1925 following disagreements with the late Dalai Lama, had added
further complexity. The Tashi Lama was suspected to pro-Chinese inclinations.
For the time being the new, infant Dalai Lama was being kept in a place of
secrecy.
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