At 90, the Dalai Lama braces for final showdown with Beijing: his reincarnation

CNN ^ | July 3, 2025 | Simone McCarthy

[SaxxonWoods]

Good one! He may have been prompted, and he does have an active sense of humor.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for the laugh.

[frank ballenger]

Beautiful. He got all of that one.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Ciaphas Cain]

LOL!!!!!

[TheConservator]

In the late 1970s, he came to Seattle where I got to meet him and shake hands. He did have quite the presence.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Will there be any young boys there to suck Lama’s tongue? I’m still trying to unseen that horror a few years ago.

[Savage Beast]

Well said.

CNN is the epitome of sophomoric groupthink.

You're right. Anything beyond that is beyond them.

[Tallguy]

“...where he has found refuge since Chinese communist troops put down an armed uprising in his mountainous homeland in 1959.”

Might need a fact-check on that. CNN is not a reputable news organization.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

a revered spiritual master like the Dalai Lama is believed to choose the place and time of his rebirth

He ought to choose to be reincarnated in the U.S.A. Best if he were to avoid California and several other states, also any large city.

[Tallguy]

I’m arranging a 2-man golf match. The Dalai Llma (Big Hitter) vs. Kim Jong-un (Mr. Hole-in-One). Should be one for the ages.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Is the current Dalai Lama the same one Lowell Thomas and Richard Halliburton met decades ago?

[GreenLanternCorps]

Yes, he has officially been Dalai Lama since 1939.

[Berosus]

In a news story I thought was particularly silly, I read in 2007 or 2008 that the Chinese government passed a law declaring that Buddhist monks could only reincarnate with the government’s permission. The Dalai Lama responded by saying he didn’t plan to reincarnate in China anyway. Instead, he would come back in North America, thereby escaping the Chinese Communist Party. I take that to mean he greatly enjoyed his trips over here.

[vpintheak]

Almost like this reincarnation junk is just that, junk!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

And I just thought I was being facetious. I guess I missed that story.

[SunkenCiv]

There were some topics about China’s power over the afterlife:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4327092/posts?page=25#25