The Dalai Lama, who may be the only octogenarian spiritual leader with a profoundly mischievous streak, has a suggestion for Chinaâ??s Communist leaders: Take up reincarnation.
Iâ??m interviewing him in his hotel room in Manhattan, at the end of an overseas tour marking his 80th birthday, and weâ??re talking about what happens after he dies. He is the 14th Dalai Lama, each considered a reincarnation of the previous one, and usually after one has died a search is undertaken for an infant to become the next. But he has said that he may be the last of the line, or that the next Dalai Lama might emerge outside Tibet â?? or might even be a girl.
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