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Wait..what? I thought it just means the Chinese government gets to choose the next Dalai Lama. Which is very obviously politically motivated...

Posted by A | August 4, 2008 4:09 PM
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@1 is correct.

The Chinese have already done some shenanigans with the Panchen Lama, who is supposed to find the next Dalai Lama after this one dies.

Posted by Mahtli69 | August 4, 2008 4:48 PM
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well they've taken up with the godam globalization capitalism thingy. This just goes to show!

Wish they would return to MTT, autarky and the "let's make steel in every back yard." Those were the antiglobalization days!

Posted by PC | August 4, 2008 4:49 PM
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This "news item" doesn't move us anywhere -- it moves YOU, damn it. Stop using the third person imperial form.....

Posted by Hartiepie | August 4, 2008 7:47 PM
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If reincarnation is outlawed,
only outlaws will reincarnate.

Posted by kunkhyab | August 4, 2008 11:24 PM
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As @2 says this is not new. We very well may see the day when there are two competing Dalai Lamas which recalls the period when there was a succession of two popes during the so-called Avignon Papacy of the Catholic church in the 14th century. The Chinese disestablished the Mongolian Buddhist Church after the revolution and instituted state selected lamas who replaced the sitting reincarnated lamas in all of the monasteries. The same process was inititiated in Tibet but the Dalai Lama has been identifying reincarnated lamas in defiance of the Chinese, so there are several dual lamas running around right now.

Posted by inkweary | August 5, 2008 9:46 AM

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