"We can say that the Reincarnation system is a creation of Tibetan Buddhism. The succession of a Living Buddha is not from the inheritance of a family, nor is it from an election in a modern sense. Instead, it is completed in a religious way: 'reincarnation'," said Nagtsang Rinpoche, a Living Buddha and the Vice President of the High Level Buddhism College of China.

According to him, this way of succession combines the basic doctrine and ritual of Tibetan Buddhism together with sophisticated political and religious factors of the upper class of the Tibetan religious circle. Therefore, it tactically solved the problem of religious leaders' status and the inheritance of their political and economical power.

As the reincarnation system of the Living Buddha is being widely practiced, a set of standard and complete systems have been formed concerning concrete methods of searching for the reincarnated soul boy and the Bed-Throne Ceremony.