China wants to install its own Dalai Lama as it is astute enough to recognise power of his position as an instrument of great influence as long as he is amenable to their commands, an Indian-American journalist and biographer of the Tibetan spiritual leader has said.
Mayank Chhaya's remarks came as the 60th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape to India from Tibet is marked this week.
Chicago-based Chhaya is the author of the critically-acclaimed 2007 biography of the spiritual leader titled Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic.'
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