The Dalai Lama’s book reveals that his successor will be born in the free world, firmly establishing the reincarnation outside China.

In his latest book, A Voice for the Voiceless, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, unveiled his political “plan” for Tibet’s future. The book indirectly reopened the thorny issue of his succession in the context of ongoing tensions with the Beijing regime.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader said the choice of a successor should be made according to traditional practices and that lamas, in which monks would conduct the search, setting up a clash with Beijing’s communist rulers.