The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, said on Wednesday that the Buddhist institution will continue after his death.
“I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue,” he said in a video broadcast in Tibetan language from the mountainous town of Dharamshala, India.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was speaking at the start of a meeting of religious leaders in the Himalayan town where he has lived for decades.
The Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, the capital of Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. Since then, he has lived in India where the Tibetan government-in-exile was also established.
