By Laurie Chen and Krishna N. Das BEIJING/DHARAMSHALA, India (Reuters) -Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist monk installed three decades ago by Beijing as the faith's No.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama turned 90, urging his followers to embrace compassion and inner peace. The is followed by a week of celebrations, during which he once again drew criticism from China and expressed hopes of living beyond 130 and reincarnating after death.