China Bans Reincarnation Without Government Permission
Friday, 25 February 2011
In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.
According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."
But beyond the irony lies China's true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region's Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. the rest
posted by Pat Dague @ 7:47 AM
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That's just silliness. These are strange days indeed.
The silliness comes, not from the Chinese government, but the absurdity of the bizzare, demon-infested, synchretistic, and false religion of the Dalai Lama.
Since the completely undemocratic perpetuation of the indigenous Tibetan aristocracy is historically couched in religious language, the Chinese government (an illicit, immoral, occupying imperialistic power, to be sure)has to express its control of this benighted and unhappy country in the language used by its own leaders.
I am no apologist for the murderous, totalitarian, Communist regime in China, but the starry eyed romanticism about the office of Dalai Lama beggars belief. Exile is probably the best thing that ever happened to the current incumbent as an individual, since most of his predecessors were assassinated in the incredibly byzantine twists and turns of Tibetan court rivalry.
What the Tibetans and the Chinese (and everybody else) need is Jesus, in whom true freedom is to be found.
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