Has the Dalai Lama's lifelong commitment to peace preserved Tibetan identity – or facilitated its erasure by China?

Open this photo in gallery: Attendant monks help put a microphone around the Dalai Lama’s head during his 90th birthday celebrations at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, on Sunday.Ashwini Bhatia/The Associated Press Kapil Komireddi is the author of Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India. Days before he turned 90 on July 6, the Dalai Lama made what may be the last - and most consequential - announcement of his life when he declared that his successor will be chosen by a trust he himself established. It was a defiant act of resistance against Beijing's decades-long plan…