Lama's 2025. Lawmakers who met the dalai lama in india on wednesday said they would not allow china to influence the choice of his successor,. While it is not yet known who will succeed tenzin gyatso, or even if he will have a successor, his holiness has assured that he will leave instructions when he reaches age 90,.
The choice of his successor is shaping up to be a struggle. The death of the dalai lama could set up a contest between the atheist communist leaders in beijing and exiled tibetan buddhists over who gets to orchestrate the opaque.