Regulating Lama-ism & licensing Reincarnation

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Thursday October 11, 2007 15:24

by guild of assassins

......"If you're going to tell people they're wrong & unsportsmanlike you have to direct their energies elsewhere".....

I realise & so do other regular contributors that there's a lot of anti-China sentiment floating about. It's quite understandable considering the Mattel Toy corporation scandal earlier this year which misled the world into thinking they were expected to send back their Barbie dolls because Chinese factory workers had poisoned them, only to learn later it was Mattel Toy Corp's manufacturing instructions which were at fault. & of course since the mid-19th century it was been impossible to treat on anti-chinese sentiment without mentioning Lama-ism. So a spot of news for those who hold Lama-ism in great esteem. "The democratically-elected Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has challenged China over a new law designed to limit Tibetan Buddhism’s role in identifying reincarnated lamas."

Quite right, the State Administration of Religious Affair in the Peoples' republic of China, has issued "Order No 5" which concerns “Management Measures for the Reincarnation of ‘Living Buddhas’ in Tibetan Buddhism.” They're attempting to regulate reincarnation.

http://www.paranormalreview.com/News/tabid/59/newsid368....aspx

The law came into force on the 1st of September & the Tibetan government in exile responded on the 27th of September. So this isn't quite fresh news, but that's the thing with reincarnation.

"Joint Statement to Repudiate the so-called Order no. 5 of China's State Administration of Religious Affairs on Management Measures for the Reincarnation of 'Living Buddhas' in Tibetan Buddhism"
http://www.tibet.net/en/prelease/2007/020907.html

Of course there's a lot in this, & maybe later I'll explore some of the issues in the comments. I can't really update on it though. Which is a little clue - how come the 14th incarnation of the buddha of compassion had glasses but none of the others did? Why can't girls be incarnations of Buddha?

Do we get suspicious if like in A Hollywood movie the next Dalai Lama is born in Thurles or Offally?

would we be more suspicious if the next Dalai Lama was more sympathetic to the red Chinese than the capitalist USA?

IF the Kings of Nepal are incarnations of Vishnu (similar kind of principle at work) how did the current King get born as a brother of an incarnation, only get the crown when a younger family member shot everyone up at the palace & without a puff of magic smoke or even a hum of an ancient tune or glyph of quasi-qabalistics be considered an incarnation of Vishnu now by his followers?

Do the Chinese have any right in regulating reincarnation?
Did Elizabeth the first of England have any right in regulating bishops?
oh yes.

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Comments (4 of 4)

And the Pope?

by Gwen

Fri Oct 12, 2007 13:11

And the Pope is really God's representative on Earth?????

No Gwen he isn't.

Fri Oct 12, 2007 14:14

Now you can go several ways on this :-

a) profess another faith.
b) profess no faith.
c) join the sedevacantists & assert there has been no legitimate pontiff of Rome since the last Pius.
d) join the conclavists & assert you have your own Pope & accept as most of those have done the canonisation of Hitler & Franco.

Personally it's not God's representatives on Earth I worry about, it's Earth's representatives in Heaven.
Look after with widow's son & it will all be grand.:.

& so the special olympics continue..,

by self-evident

Wed Oct 17, 2007 22:24

& you reckon only one of that quartet are sure to come back?

man shall not thrive on gold alone.:.

Dalai Lama issues "resignation ultimatum".......... to whom?

by Fu Manchu - (guild of assassins)

Tue Mar 18, 2008 15:09

Within Tibetan Buddhism, the successive Dalai Lamas form a lineage of (tulku) magistrates which traces back to 1391. According to tradition, the rarefied mindstream of these tulku take repeated births and embodiment to fulfill their Boddhisattva vow. They are of the Gelug School of Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhists hold the Dalai Lama to be one of innumerable incarnations of Avalokiteśvara ("Chenrezig" [spyan ras gzigs] in Tibetan), the bodhisattva of compassion.

That's as near as you get to a living God outside of the top ranks of Scientology & operating Thetans like Tom Cruise.

The Dalai Lama as early as 1969 said it was up to Tibetans to decide did they want the institution to continue. The "Tibetan in exile" government refined this by 1999 to mean the Buddha of Compassion would not be born in a country which wasn't free . Several hundred years happily reincarnating in a slave based medieval feudal theocracy & then bingo - Richard Nixon adds freedom to the equation.
http://www.tibet.com/DL/next-reincarnation.html
But that wasn't just it. Oh no.

Times change & so do Gods.

Last year the Dalai Lama decided that the 13-14 million followers he claims (n.b. they aren't all ethnic Tibetans. one could live on your housing estate) ought to consider a referendum approving his reincarnation.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,2283....html

Gosh, you say. That's like regulating Lamaism. Quite I'd say. That's the name I put on the article I wrote about it right up this page. We're quite serious in the "guild of assassins" about what we do you know.

Today's NY Times carries the "moral authority ultimatum" -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/world/asia/19dalai.ht...login

ongoing thread on the Ethnic & Sectarian violence in the Chinese region of Tibet -

Dalai Lama in India on Tuesday threatens to resign. "God Quits" when the pacifists fight.

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Regulating Lama-ism & licensing Reincarnation

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