The Dalai Lama is part of a long tradition in Tibet, where the Dalai Lama dies and the people wait for a portent that he is born again, the smoke goes up in a certain direction, and fungus grows on the tomb, and the regent in charge sends out a scout to find the child.

The Dalai Lama has been reincarnating for a very long time and his lock on tyranny in Tibet was like no other. It was a country of serfs, and he was head of this serfdom. The people routinely were punished by the lamas and Panchen lamas,   Here you would find eye gouging, leg and hand and arm amputations, beatings, scalding,
torture. The Dalai Lama could be equated with the Pharaohs of Egypt who also continually reincarnated to practice tyranny upon a group of people connected by blood..

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet, when the Red Chinese came to free its people from such tyranny. Most Tibetans who fled with the Dalai Lama were rich and in charge in Tibet. The poor Tibetans did not leave Tibet.

The tyranny that the Dalai Lama practiced in Tibet is not evident in India where the Tibetans have colonized in hopes of one day returning to Tibet.  In the meantime the Dalai Lama has learned alot. He now believes in Democracy, and knows that his people should be allowed to vote for someone to lead them.

The Dalai Lama is in a quandary about reincarnating however. He fully realizes the tyranny he put his people under. He has tried to make amends, but the fact remains that his people expect him to return after he leaves his body for the last time.

In Tibet the Tibetan monks create sand art. It must be done in the sand, and every single day. The symbols of the Mandela, are the different electro magnetic fields one passes through in the Bar do State. Each symbol represents an idea that the monks understand, one must consciously recognize while traversing the bardo state, with the specific intention of returning to Tibet, or as a Tibetan,as the symbols are the deeper meanings of serving the Dalai Lama.

This Psuedo demi-god has destroyed alot of lives over the thousands of years he has incarnated and led his people to the sides of the pit. But the clue to reincarnating is in the Tibetan symbol of the Mandela.

This Mandela of the Tibetan monks is created every day, day in, day out, for the express purpose of ingraining these symbols in the Tibetan Monk's psyche. Remember the symbol is created everyday, and at the end of the day, it is wiped clean. The sand is swept away.
The Tibetans say it is because life is short, and remembrance dull. So the Mandela was created so that the Monks could see the stations of the symbols of the Mandela, and understand that this is an exact map of the bar do state, that they will traverse when they die and enter the static state of consciousness that we call death.

The Dalai Lama has said he will choose to reincarnate somewhere else, or he will let the Tibetans know where he is going to reincarnate, or he will not reincarnate or he will reincarnate as a woman. Understand he knows he has the power to do this. The Dalai Lama could free all of his people if he chose not to reincarnate. That would finally break the tyrannical hold on the Tibetan sheeple. The jockeying has put the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Communist Party in surprising positions. The Dalai Lama said late last month in an interview with The New York Times that all options for choosing his reincarnation were open, including ones that break from tradition. That could mean that the next Dalai Lama would be found outside Tibet, could be a woman or might even be named while the 14th Dalai Lama was still alive, before his soul properly transmigrated.  Or the Dalai Lama has declared that he wll not reincarnate but Trancend reincarnation and choose emanation.