A non-profit organization will be the one to recognize the baby who will succeed him. Outside of China, as the spiritual leader has insisted. 90 years ago, in a family of buckwheat and barley farmers in the current Chinese province of Qinghai,

Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist monk installed three decades ago by Beijing as the faith's No. 2 leader, the Panchen Lama.