Why Is China’s Atheist Regime Trying to Pick the Next Dalai Lama?

The Chinese Communist Party is preparing to hijack an ancient faith. Freedom-loving people can’t let it succeed.

In early September, dozens of high-ranking Tibetan Buddhist monks and religious scholars gathered in the Chinese city of Lanzhou to discuss reincarnation, a major tenet of their faith. Observers would be understandably perplexed by how the participants “emphasized the importance” of the approval of China’s communist regime “in the recognition of reincarnated Tibetan religious leaders.”