The young Aguidai being named a “reincarnation” by the Dalai Lama invoked mixed emotions among different groups in Mongolia.

The Dalai Lama has named a US-born 8-year-old Mongolian boy Aguidai as the tenth Khakha Jestun Dhampa Rinpoche, the third-highest leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

“We have the reincarnation of Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoché of Mongolia with us today,” Dalai Lama told his community of 600 followers present at the ceremony.

Not being known earlier, the boy now has turned into the centre of a geopolitical “chess game” played between China and Mongolia, said a Mongolian Buddhism expert, Sue Byrne.

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