In his latest book, Voice for the Voiceless, he was more forthright, writing that his successor would be born in the ‘free world’, obviously outside China. But now he has made his views more explicit. He has said in a recorded message at a religious ceremony in Dharamshala on June 30, that the next Dalai Lama would be found and recognized according to tradition laid out and that the search would be entrusted to the Gaden Phodrang Trust, that he founded in 2015 and manned by trusted senior monks that he had chosen to oversee religious and spiritual matters. So, the reincarnation and choice would be with those he trusts. He laid to rest earlier apprehension that the 600-year-old tradition of reincarnation of the Dalai Lama would end with him. He was explicit that the Dalai Lama’s office has the sole authority to recognise the reincarnation. "No one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter", he emphasised, making it clear China cannot choose his successor.