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BeliefWatch: Reincarnate
 Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP The Next Lama: The Dalai Lama says he won't reincarnate in Tibet |
Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue - In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation." But beyond the irony lies China's true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region's Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering.
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- High % of belief in reincarnation in this part of the world
- Dalai Lama presumably having control over where he reincarnates
- Politically sensitive issue between China and Tibet
- Iron-fist type control of the Chinese government
it makes sense -- in a really perverse way.
That merited reposting so as to be able to digest it!
I'd be interested in how they'd enforce it. A set of bouncers on maternity wards... "Get back up into that womb and don't you come out until we say you can".
this is the kind of thing that creates revolutions
I can see the headline now. And the subsequent report.
Drama Lama Ding Dong!
In an amazing turn of events the Dalai Lama today revealed that, unless China releases its hold on Tibet, he plans to reincarnate, not in the east, but in a remote Swiss town!
Fears of a slaughter "en mass" of the kind not seen since Herod (allegedly) had away with first born babies in an attempt to kill off the King of the Jews before he got out of the manger manifested when, China moved to put a stop to reincarnation by banning it within Tibet without governmental permission!
The Dalai Lama issued a statement saying that, although he saw this as a classic example of the totalitarian regime Tibet is against, abiding by the laws of the land is something which has to be observed, so as to demonstrate that, it is possible to circumvent such things! "Switzerland is a well known neutral country and is ideal for the purposes of this." He also added in a characteristic show of humour that, "Because of their history with timekeeping, I can get my rebirth timed perfectly down to the last second".
A statement from a Chinese official on the Dalai's cunning plan to bypass these new laws read simply "It's not unusual in the world for a Lama to spit in the eye of those who wish to try to control it."
they'll need to begin at conception I fear...no conception, no lama....
one quick and easy way to prevent conception in the first place would be a forced hysterectomy of the Tibetan population in Tibet...no uturus...no place for the lama to nestle!
not that uncommon...certain enlightened civilisations in western europe did it to their mentally challenged in the fifties and sixties....think about it...
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