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China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 9:02am |
 Coolness: 685695 | This week, in "What the fuck is wrong with people these days"...
[ www.msnbc.msn.com ] 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. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering. At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control. Assuming he's able to master the feat of controlling his rebirth, as Dalai Lamas supposedly have for the last 600 years, the situation is shaping up in which there could be two Dalai Lamas: one picked by the Chinese government, the other by Buddhist monks. "It will be a very hot issue," says Paul Harrison, a Buddhism scholar at Stanford. "The Dalai Lama has been the prime symbol of unity and national identity in Tibet, and so it's quite likely the battle for his incarnation will be a lot more important than the others." So where in the world will the next Dalai Lama be born? Harrison and other Buddhism scholars agree that it will likely be from within the 130,000 Tibetan exiles spread throughout India, Europe and North America. With an estimated 8,000 Tibetans living in the United States, could the next Dalai Lama be American-born? "You'll have to ask him," says Harrison. If so, he'll likely be welcomed into a culture that has increasingly embraced reincarnation over the years. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 20 percent of all U.S. adults believe in reincarnation. Recent surveys by the Barna Group, a Christian research nonprofit, have found that a quarter of U.S. Christians, including 10 percent of all born-again Christians, embrace it as their favored end-of-life view. A non-Tibetan Dalai Lama, experts say, is probably out of the question. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 10:19am |
 Coolness: 162605 | I wish the next Dalai-Lama would be born in Quebec .... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 11:26am |
 Coolness: 92370 | Maybe he will be. Kundun is a good movie about the Dalai-lama. And he's soooo cute before he grows up :) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 11:43am |
| Coolness: 685695 | somehow, imagining a dalai llama from quebec leads me to picturing a bald Elvis Graton saying "Think big, 'sti!" |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 12:59pm |
 Coolness: 178750 | Avez-vous vus le film "Ce qu'il Reste de nous"? Ça parle de la domination du Tibet par la Chine, c'est super intéressant. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 1:21pm |
| Coolness: 92370 | Sweet, I'm going to download it. I love buddhist culture. Kundun is about that also but takes place mainly in the Dalai Lamas palace. He was the one who fled to India, the same Dalai Lama as now. Mainly what makes it interesting is the culture though. It's also cool that they pissed off the chinese government. Then again it doesn't take much.
"Kundun is a 1997 film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of the Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet. Both Scorsese and Mathison (along with several other members of the production) were banned by the Chinese Government from ever entering Tibet as a result of making the film. The film did poorly at the box office, but was generally praised by critics. Some criticized the movie as hagiographic[citation needed], but many found it exceptionally moving and stunning, even within Scorcese's impressive oeuvre. Some — notably Jonathan Rosenbaum and Charles Taylor — consider it to be among Scorsese's finest films. The majority of the film was shot at the Atlas Film Studios in Ouarzazate, Morocco. The name "Kundun" is a title by which the Dalai Lama is addressed, literally meaning "presence". It is written སྐུ་མདུན་ (Wylie: Sku-mdun) in Tibetan and is pronounced [kũtỹ] in the Lhasa dialect. " |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:24pm |
 Coolness: 145305 | when i heard this i almost pissed myself laughing, |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 1:59am |
 Coolness: 158340 | There goes my plans for Chinese reincarnation. DAMNIT! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 4:34pm |
 Coolness: 150565 | Originally Posted By MOONDANCER
Maybe he will be. Kundun is a good movie about the Dalai-lama. And he's soooo cute before he grows up :) Could you find me a torrent for this film? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 12:53pm |
| Coolness: 92370 | [ ww.demonoid.com ]
[ ww.demonoid.com ] You need an account for demonoid though, if you don't have one I can send you an invitation code. There's also one on pirate bay but the only comments are to complain that there's no subtitles and there's 1 seeder. I think you're better off signing up for demonoid and using their tracker. [ thepiratebay.org ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 12:56pm |
| Coolness: 685695 | serously, if everyone had a demonoid account, they wouldn't need to ask for links to anything they're looking for.. Demonoid has 99% of everything you could ever want. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 3:10pm |
| Coolness: 162605 | me wants a demonoid account! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 3:48pm |
| Coolness: 685695 | Now wasn't that quick?  |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 3:52pm |
| Coolness: 162605 | Thankies ;) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 8:33pm |
 Coolness: 266060 | HAHAHAHHAHA holy motherfucking shit.
no way. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 9:47pm |
| Coolness: 150565 | You're right. After I posted that, I found and downloaded the torrent from PirateBay (or some where else) and later found out that it wasn't in subtitles.
Send me an invite... Pleeease. Thanks. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Sat Sep 1, 2007 @ 6:53am |
| Coolness: 266060 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD
somehow, imagining a dalai llama from quebec leads me to picturing a bald Elvis Graton saying "Think big, 'sti!" BWAAHHAHAHA |
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