WHEN the 13th Dalai Lama died in 1933, the body of Tibet’s ... the recognition of the incarnation requires the drawing of lots from a golden urn, overseen, traditionally, by the envoy of the ...

The Dalai Lama celebrates 50 years as Tibetan head of state today -- a golden jubilee marked in Indian exile as temporal leader of a government with no international recognition. Now 65, the Dalai ...