Geology and Geopolitics: Reincarnation and the Institution of the Dalai Lama

The Tibetan Buddhist world is confronting an unprecedented challenge to religious authority and institutional continuity. Asia Society Texas and the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston are pleased to welcome Lobsang Sangay, lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and former Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration, to hear about how Buddhist traditions across the Himalayan region, Central Asia, and the world are responding to these overlapping pressures.