Dalai Lama is 89 years old
In his new book, _Voice for the Voiceless_, Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual leader, the [Dalai Lama](https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/dalai-lama), has said his successor would be born outside [China]( https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/china ).
This new Dalai Lama would also be born in the free world, he wrote.
"So that the traditional mission of the Dalai Lama—that is, to be the voice for universal compassion, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and the symbol of Tibet embodying the aspirations of the Tibetan people—will continue," the Dalai Lama writes.