The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan region he fled more than six decades ago.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has announced that his successor will be born outside of China, marking a major shift from his previous stance. The declaration, made in Dalai Lama's new book ‘Voice for the Voiceless’ released on March 11,

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.