Yes this is exactly how the reincarnation stuff works in practice from what I can tell from my time reading about the tibetan buddhists and trying my best to practice their wisdom.
Its difficult to arrive to this conclusion because most of their frameworks are symbolism wrapped in a language/culture barrier.
And we should be watching the present dalai lamas death very closely because we may possibly be looking at the last classic dalai lama upbringing due to china having authority to select their own figurehead for them so we may end up with two dalai lamas, the real selected by the Buddhists and the fake one selected by china.
Yes this is exactly how the reincarnation stuff works in practice from what I can tell from my time reading about the tibetan buddhists and trying my best to practice their wisdom.
Its difficult to arrive to this conclusion because most of their frameworks are symbolism wrapped in a language/culture barrier.
And we should be watching the present dalai lamas death very closely because we may possibly be looking at the last classic dalai lama upbringing due to china having authority to select their own figurehead for them so we may end up with two dalai lamas, the real selected by the Buddhists and the fake one selected by china.