BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media denounced the Dalai Lama
Monday for his views on reincarnation, saying that the exiled
Buddhist monk was trying to revise history, compounding his
crimes as a separatist.  The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and
Tibetan spiritual leader in September said he or other Tibetan
leaders should be the ones to decide on his reincarnation, not
Beijing.  "The Dalai Lama not only is attempting to bury long
established historical tenets of Tibetan Buddhism with him when
he dies, but is adding another criminal charge to his teachings
of separatism, which damages Tibet and Buddhism," the People's
Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, said in a
commentary.  China contends that it has the final say in all
reincarnations of living Buddhas, or senior religious figures in
Tibetan Buddhism, and that it has to sign off on the selection
of the next Dalai Lama.  In 1995, after the Dalai Lama named a
boy in Tibet as the reincarnation of the previous Panchen Lama,
the second highest