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Next Dalai Lama May Be Female

Tibetan Buddhist leader opens door to female successor

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 7, 2007 9:00 AM CST

(Newser) – The Dalai Lama has revealed that his successor might be a woman, the Telegraph reports. Although some lamas, or living Buddhas, are female, the large majority are men and most consider themselves reincarnations of people of the same gender. But the leader of the Tibetan...   Read full story »

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