Dalai Lama said the 600-year-old institution will continue and only his office can decide his successor; China insisted the process must follow its Chinese regulations

On Wednesday, the 14th Dalai Lama, who turns 90 this Sunday, stated that the centuries-old institution of the Dalai Lama would continue and that the Gaden Phodrang Trust would have the “sole authority

In an apparent snub to China, Rijiju asserted that the decision on the Incarnation of the Dalai Lama would be taken by the established institution and the Dalai Lama himself and no one else.