Passport to Reincarnation

Is reincarnation possible? Tibetans think so, believing their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is the 14th reincarnation of the same god-king. But China has banned the Dalai Lama and Tibet's other living Buddhas from - get this - reincarnating without government permission...
~ Extracted from TIME Magazine, 20 August, 2007