# The Dalai Lama has announced he will have a successor after his death, continuing a centuries-old tradition that has become a flashpoint in the struggle with China’s Communist Party over Tibet’s future. The Nobel Peace laureate has been living in India since fleeing Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese communist rule in 1959. The announcement days before the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday sets the stage for a high stakes battle over his succession, between Tibetan leaders in exile and China’s atheist Communist Party.
Dalai Lama vows he won’t be the last leader of Tibetan Buddhism