Which one will be most recognized diplomatically as the "real" lama?
In a turnabout, actor Bill Murray should bestow cosmic consciousness on the Dalai Lama as he faces the end.
Hebrews 9:27.
Another Buddhist was Allen Ginsberg.
As a Michigan FReeper I want to mention the cremated remains of Allen Ginsberg are partially interred at the Jewel Heart Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Other locations of portions....
His family plot in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Jewel Heart, Gelek Rinpoche’s sangha (in New York).
The Shambhala Sangha, to be brought to Shambhala Mountain Center near Red Feather Lakes, Colorado.
The current Dali Lama never struck me as a guy who took this stuff seriously.
“Always two, there are: A Dalai Lama. And a Commie Lama.” —Yoda
Follow the money...that’s how the world usually goes.
Inquiring minds want to know. How long does it take the soul of the Dalai Lama to be resent back to earth? When the soul leaves can it immediately find the first available baby? Does the soul enter the baby in the womb or just after birth? What happens if the successor baby Dalai Lama is chosen, but dies after being chosen? Where are all the instructions given as to how this all comes about? Has there ever been a reluctant Dalai Lama?
CNN, in its sophomoric glory, relegates a spiritual “voyage” to a question about political control. Always political control. CNN cannot do anything else.
Well Hello Dalai!
(sorry, but it’s the law)
I had always thought Tibetan prophecy indicated the current Dali Lama would be the last.
Will there be any young boys there to suck Lama’s tongue? I’m still trying to unseen that horror a few years ago.
“...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.
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.
Is the current Dalai Lama the same one Lowell Thomas and Richard Halliburton met decades ago?
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.
Almost like this reincarnation junk is just that, junk!