Tibetans worldwide want the institution of the Dalai Lama to continue after the 89-year-old’s death, he writes in a new book. He had previously said the line of spiritual leaders might end with him. The Dalai Lama fled at the age of 23 to India with thousands of other Tibetans in 1959 after a failed uprising against the rule of Mao Zedong’s Communists. Beijing insists it will choose his successor, but the Dalai Dalai has said any successor named by China would not be respected. The book is being published on Tuesday in the US by William Morrow and in Britain by HarperNonFiction, with HarperCollins publications to follow in India and other countries. He writes that his homeland remains \”in the grip of repressive Communist Chinese rule\” and that the campaign for the freedom of the Tibetan people will continue \”no matter what\”, even after his death. The current Dalai Lama was identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor when he was two, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.