Regulating Lama-ism & licensing Reincarnation

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press 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.