New Delhi, July 4 -- Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong on Friday reiterated China's official stance on the reincarnation process of Tibetan Buddhist leaders, emphasising that it is governed by time-honoured rituals and cannot be determined by any one individual.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the envoy said, "The reincarnation of Living Buddhas follows a fully developed set of established rituals, and has never been decided by a single individual including the 14th Dalai Lama himself."

Expanding on the historical practice surrounding the identification of reincarnated Tibetan spiritual figures, Xu stated, "Over centuries of practice in the reincarnation and succession of Living Buddhas, particularly in the search for and identi...