For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party rule, sustaining the cause from exile even as an ...

In Tibetan Buddhism, it's acceptable for a dalai lama to reincarnate outside China or Tibet. The 4th dalai lama was born in Mongolia in 1589, and the 6th, Tsangyang Gyatso, was born in 1682 in the ...