RE: Dali Lama rejects reincarnation.
March 10, 2015 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 3:29 pm by Anomalocaris.)
You are full of shit. There are a lot of Buddhists in China, but by no means close to the majority. There are numerous other co petting traditions from folk religion to daooist. The influence of Buddhist religion, or any religion, in modern China is very slim, slimmer than the influence of Christianity in the most secular of any western states. In China it is and always had been the state that ruled. Religion and law were and are servants of the state, and the state keeps its servants in their place and serving the interest of the state by making sure there are many of them, they remain individually weak, and they don't ever get a chance to cooperate to undermine the state, and most citizens are skeptical of their values as substitutes for the earthly state. In China the state, whether in its daoist imperial guise, or the modern secular socialist pseudo-communist guise, was and is able to crush any religion stupid enough to seriously cross the state.
This struggle involving the Dali lama is the battle between:
1. a modern largely secular socialist Chinese state that wishes to strengthen a tradition of suzerainty, establish by it daoist imperial ancester, over a culturally distinct theocracy on a strategically important border, to the point of hegemony and eventual total assimilation.
2. A very backwards tibetian theocracy which had in the past been vassel to the daoist imperial china in name, but more or less independent in fact, struggling against the efforts of a reinvigorated and modernized secular socialist china to completely replace the religious and theocratic institutions in Tibet with a modern secular institutions as a step towards eventual total assimilation.
This struggle involving the Dali lama is the battle between:
1. a modern largely secular socialist Chinese state that wishes to strengthen a tradition of suzerainty, establish by it daoist imperial ancester, over a culturally distinct theocracy on a strategically important border, to the point of hegemony and eventual total assimilation.
2. A very backwards tibetian theocracy which had in the past been vassel to the daoist imperial china in name, but more or less independent in fact, struggling against the efforts of a reinvigorated and modernized secular socialist china to completely replace the religious and theocratic institutions in Tibet with a modern secular institutions as a step towards eventual total assimilation.
