The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that a non-profit that he has founded will have the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation, countering China's insistence that it will choose the successor of the Tibetan spiritual leader.

Dalai Lama, on his 90th birthday this week, is expected to issue a significant statement on the crucial issue of his reincarnation, and hence of his successor. Beijing, however, insists that the Chinese government alone has the sole right to determine both whether the Dalai Lama will reincarnate and in whom he will incarnate (“The looming succession battle over the Dalai Lama”,