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"This is many lifetimes of commitment," said Gere, who has been stationed in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala for week-long celebrations of the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday on Sunday.
"His Holiness has been very clear that at some point the body is going to fall apart for all of us," the 75-year-old movie star, who has been a devoted follower of the Dalai Lama for decades, told Reuters on the sidelines of an event for Tibetan youth.
"We all have to be aware that His Holiness can't carry us on his shoulders forever. We have to carry ourselves and we have to carry each other." On Wednesday, the Dalai Lama assured millions of his followers that upon his death he would be reincarnated as the next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and spelt out a succession process that sets up a renewed clash with China. Beijing insists that it will choose his successor.
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