RE: Dali Lama rejects reincarnation.
March 10, 2015 at 10:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 10:22 am by Anomalocaris.)
Dali lama is the head of one sect of tibetian Buddhism, which when it had free reign over Tibet prior to Chinese takeover in 1959 was arguably the most brutally repressive and socially regressive menifestations of Buddhism on large scale seen anywhere in the world.
Current Dali lama is the 13th dai lama, and at the core of this conflict is the issue of who will be the 14th dali lama. Rest assured this Dali lama is not ditching his religion. Religion is the only reason why he is any body. What he is trying to do is molding his religion to suite his political needs. He is in a political fight with china over what should Tibet be after his own death, an independent theocratic state ruled outright theocrat like himself, or a secular administration imposed by china that has at various time paid lip service to religious freedom and brutally cracked down on elementary menifestations of tradition religion. Traditional tibetian Buddhism believed each Dali lama is a an reincarnation of the previous one, and has an elaborate process upon the death of the previous Dali lama to identify which boy born in the theocratic state at supposedly the same moment the old Dali lama died is the incarnation of the old Dali lama. Currently China through its political control over Tibet has successfully gained control over the much of the traditional tibetian Buddhism hierarchy, and are thus in a position to ensure when this Dali lama died, China could appoint an infant born within area Of Chinese control as the successor, control his upbringing and ensure the next leader of tibetian Buddhism is loyal to secular china. The current Dali lama had sought to set up a rival hierarchy outside China that would breed successive Dali lamas who would continue to tibetian devotion to Dali lama to stir up through for china for the purpose of detaching Tibet from Chinese control and reimposing independent theocratic control of the Dali lama line over Tibet. But it is clear the communist state has the upper hand. So he is, for political reasons tearing up the rule book. He is by no means renouncing his religion. He is simply hope to modify it in such a way as to throw out traditions which are being used to thwart his political ends.
Current Dali lama is the 13th dai lama, and at the core of this conflict is the issue of who will be the 14th dali lama. Rest assured this Dali lama is not ditching his religion. Religion is the only reason why he is any body. What he is trying to do is molding his religion to suite his political needs. He is in a political fight with china over what should Tibet be after his own death, an independent theocratic state ruled outright theocrat like himself, or a secular administration imposed by china that has at various time paid lip service to religious freedom and brutally cracked down on elementary menifestations of tradition religion. Traditional tibetian Buddhism believed each Dali lama is a an reincarnation of the previous one, and has an elaborate process upon the death of the previous Dali lama to identify which boy born in the theocratic state at supposedly the same moment the old Dali lama died is the incarnation of the old Dali lama. Currently China through its political control over Tibet has successfully gained control over the much of the traditional tibetian Buddhism hierarchy, and are thus in a position to ensure when this Dali lama died, China could appoint an infant born within area Of Chinese control as the successor, control his upbringing and ensure the next leader of tibetian Buddhism is loyal to secular china. The current Dali lama had sought to set up a rival hierarchy outside China that would breed successive Dali lamas who would continue to tibetian devotion to Dali lama to stir up through for china for the purpose of detaching Tibet from Chinese control and reimposing independent theocratic control of the Dali lama line over Tibet. But it is clear the communist state has the upper hand. So he is, for political reasons tearing up the rule book. He is by no means renouncing his religion. He is simply hope to modify it in such a way as to throw out traditions which are being used to thwart his political ends.
