By Laurie Chen and Krishna N. Das BEIJING/DHARAMSHALA, India (Reuters) -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.

Born as Tenzin Gyatso in 1935, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader and a beacon of hope for millions of Tibetan Buddhists around the world. At the age of two, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama,

While the world debates the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, the fate of the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s second-most important figure, stands as a chilling precedent of China’s plan. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima,