I don't envy a kid who suddently gets chosen to be the head of a religion.
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Bobby hill
Dude is just another example of organized religion protecting pedos.
This has already been pretty heavily discussed down below.
Take aways: don't be racist and judge and very different cultjre's interaction through a sexualised, western lens.
Besides, If there's more, don't you think that the PRC would have had everyone shouting it from the roof tops by now?
If this is the most damming thing they can show, which according to Tibetans isn't a big deal, then how likely do you think he is to actually be paedohpilic?
I'm still disappointed he's not an actual llama.
Not in this life anyways
I guess that rules out the US.
At the rate things are going, the kid's gonna need to be born off-planet.
He's actually making a political statement, imho, though. He's attempting to prevent China's inevitable attempt to replace him with one of their own.
China already took custody of the young Panchen Lama, who plays an integral part in identifying the reincarnated Dalai Lama.
I'd say their attempt to replace him is more than inevitable -- it's already underway.
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Oh that's cheeky. China has control of the current Panchen Lama, don't they?
Yeah they disappeared him and his family when he was just 6 years old, then announced a loyalist the new Panchen Llama. That was 30 years ago.
Hm, I think he failed his magic spell and we got DALL-E and Llama instead.
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it's cool that he can know these things
I assume you don't believe in Buddhism, but if you do it makes sense. The Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of an enlightened being. Its like if jesus would have come back all the time instead of just once for a few days. (It's not exactly like that and I'm not Buddhist)
If you actually read the words of the Buddha on reincarnation he was quite explicitly clear that he never endorsed the idea.
That's really interesting. But ok I don't want to insult anyone, but wasn't Siddhartha Gautama only one of many many enlightened ones? And do you know if he didn't endorse the entire bhavacakra or just the Bodhisattva?
To be clear, I am not a Buddhist, just a long time student of trying to figure out what the fuck is going on here. Closest thing to a philosophy that I follow is the Taoism of the Chuang Tzu which is basically the position of "it's all a muddle and anyone who tries to tell you they know what's going on is full of it, best to just be quiet."
Actually none of it was relevant to his actual words. All of the mythologizing came later. He pretty much summed it up as "What have I elucidated? The cause of suffering and it's cessation, that's all." (to paraphrase). The main problem was he was from a culture with a boatload of nonsense that got grafted on to the teachings. Religious Buddhism is awash in Hindu/Vedic add ons.
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Is the panchen lama still imprisoned in China? How will they find the next Dalai lama?
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Theres only so many places with concentrations of tibetan buddhists. it wont be India, china, or tibet. That leaves Mongolia or Russia.
Since India and the PRC are geopolitical rivals, and India is home to a lot of Tibetan Independence activists actually quite likely to be India I'd think.
My insane prediction:
The next Dalai Lama will be born to the one random Tibetan Buddhist family living in a small town in rural Alabama.
Of course, is I was the Lama, I would throw a curve ball and come back as transgender Nigerian woman, just to mix things up.
What would be really cool, was if the kid didn't belong to a Tibetan buddhist family. It was just some random kid in rural Alabama. Think about it: "We have found the 15th Dalai Lama! It's a boy called Billybob Jackson"
There's sort of a King of the Hill episode about that. Bobby inadvertently gets put in the mix when a group of Buddhist monks visit Arlen looking for a reincarnated person (I forget who exactly), much to the dismay of both Hank and Khan. Then he ends up seeming like he might actually the person they're looking for, except the visiting monk ultimately decides that he is not the right choice.
unlikely, he clearly said, free world.
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Isn't that the plot of little Buddha?
Shit, they're onto me.
You're unborn fetish?
I know, religion is bad an' all that, but I like this guy. Always did.
The stuff he tells to the world is very different from what he tells his own followers. Let's not forget that he comes from a very long tradition of repressive theocracy.
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