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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Sep 9, 2014, 08:15 PM Sep 2014

Dalai Lama Sees No Need For Successor: "Let Us Finish With A Popular Dalai Lama" [View all]

Antonia Blumberg

The Dalai Lama told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag in a recent interview that he sees no need for a successor to follow him. The Tibetan leader told the paper:

"We had a Dalai Lama for almost five centuries. The 14th Dalai Lama now is very popular. Let us then finish with a popular Dalai Lama."

The institution of the Dalai Lama as the head monk in Tibetan Buddhism is fairly recent in the scope of the religion, as the current Dalai Lama is only the 14th in history with the first Dalai Lama born in 1391.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09/dalai-lama-successor_n_5790572.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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Dalai Lama Sees No Need For Successor: "Let Us Finish With A Popular Dalai Lama" [View all] hrmjustin Sep 2014 OP

That's very surprising, to say the least. Htom Sirveaux Sep 2014 #1

Yeah 7t is mind boggling. hrmjustin Sep 2014 #2

This really isn't that surprising. TM99 Sep 2014 #3