<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5bc6dc10-fc35-413e-b0fc-9c540804e934/6DB48328-2C9C-4164-83BA-9A7A89D563BF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/21/2096605.htm" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/21/2096605.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abc.net.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/21/2096605.htm"><P class="published"><SPAN class="timestamp"></SPAN> </p> <DIV id="storyRelatedMedia"> <DIV class="photo" id="storyPhotos"> <A href="http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200710/r192311_725846.jpg" id="storyPhotosLink"> <IMG width="285" height="178" alt="Reincarnation decision: The Dalai Lama with George W Bush and Nancy Pelosi" src="http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200710/r192311_725839.jpg" id="storyPhotosImg" /> </A> <P class="caption" id="storyPhotosCaption">Reincarnation decision: The Dalai Lama with George W Bush and Nancy Pelosi (AFP: Saul Loeb)</p> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="first">The Dalai Lama says he is considering going against centuries of tradition and naming his successor before he dies.</p> <P>The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, who is visiting Japan, told a newspaper he is looking at a number of options.</p> <P>Traditionally, it is not until the Dalai Lama dies that the search starts for his reincarnation, a child born around the same time the last Dalai Lama died. </p> <P>The concern is that China could interfere in the succession. </p> <P>When the Dalai Lama appointed a six-year-old to be the second most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism - the Panchen Lama - the Chinese detained the boy and then replaced him with their own candidate, loyal to Chinese rule in Tibet.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6DB48328-2C9C-4164-83BA-9A7A89D563BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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