Dalai Lama: will spell out reincarnation details

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_INDIA_DALAI_LAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-24-09-33-22

DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- The Dalai Lama said Saturday if he is to be reincarnated he will leave clear written instructions about the process, but that the matter is unlikely to come up for a number of years.

The Tibetan spiritual leader said in a statement that when he is "about 90" he will consult Buddhist scholars to evaluate whether the institution of the Dalai Lama should continue at all. He is 76.

The statement came after a meeting between the Dalai Lama and the leaders of the four Tibetan Buddhist sects, the first since he transferred his political role earlier this year to an elected prime minister.

China reviles the Dalai Lama as a separatist, although the Nobel Peace Prize laureate insists he is only seeking increased autonomy for Tibet. Beijing has left little doubt that it intends to be deeply involved in choosing the next Dalai Lama. That concern has led the current Dalai Lama to contemplate ideas that break with the ancient system in which each dead Dalai Lama is reincarnated in the body of a male child.

[Odin2005]

1. How does he know he's going to live to 90?

:shrug:

[tinrobot]

2. How do we know he's not?

[laconicsax]

3. Good one!

[Deep13]

4. Oh good. I had been relying on the school janitor for details.

The janitor was just making stuff up when the Dalai Lama will be...oh...making stuff up. Damn, that's disappointing.