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China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate
michaelcole writes "China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. This article is both hilarious and sad, looking at the lengths to which a government will go to regulate thought through censorship. It also goes into some of the more subtle politics of the current 72-year-old Dalai Lama as he thinks about his political and spiritual successor. The Dalai Lama 'refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control.'"
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As long as I can practice any zainy superstition I choose here in America, I'll be a happy man.
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Is there any evidence that the Buddhists are anything other than a cult? As much as I feel that China is a dictatorship, I would hate to have a cult operating in my country, whether democratically or not, with the impending threat that they could brainwash my children to believe that the Dalai Lama was a supernatural reincarnation. I feel a tad of empathy for China, in this regard. They are just looking out for their people and protecting them from a potentially dangerous, albeit tragically popular, cult.
Or is there some reason that we should respect the Buddhists as something more (thereby tolerating their "supernatural" claims)?