Dalai Lama says successor will be born in ‘free world’ outside of China
Tibetan spiritual leader says in a new book that his people’s aspiration for freedom cannot be indefinitely delayed.
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.
Ironically musk starting a servitude-built Mars colony and then the next religious leader that can just exist in a vacuum without dying or breathing is born there or something, is basically where I’m putting my faith in this timeline I live in; because it appears logic and human compassion were cool ideas when more people were using psychedelic drugs.
Well, I was born before things really went south, for example. He didn't specify it had to be "free" currently...?
The Bitcoin reserve might be the closest thing to property rights the US has achieved in a century. Its been 10 years of stealing peoples gold and purchasing power, in order to deliver stellar bailouts to risky bankers and hedge funds.
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.
He becomes AI and is free -- free of a physical body and physical limitations
Or the reincarnation of Winamp, who knows.
it's cool that he can know these things
Actually, anyone can make up stuff as much as they like.
Yes, but it's the fanbase that matters.
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)
You can call it a cope but the writing is on the wall for them: the Dalai Lama either exists outside of China in the next generation or there is no next generation as the dictatorship exerts full control over them.
It's over for them. Their temples have been torn down, their faith has become a political tool.
Alright first one to Suck my tongue is the next Dalai Lama!
I don't envy a kid who suddently gets chosen to be the head of a religion.
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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.
unlikely, he clearly said, free world.
I thought he was born in Arlen, TX?
Just wondering, is he gonna have a father that sells propane and a Laotian GF?
Not Alabama, but there is a Lama from Minnesota
If you ascribe to the idea that the Dalaï Llama is/was a cia operative, and a sort of bridge/conduit between the interests of East and West, this sets up quite the “lottery” for where power may shift.
Because his followers are quite far and wide, not just of “race” (and I use that very loosely), it creates a very powerful base that will follow a sort of leader.
Interesting timing, especially since his long time friend the Aga Khan just passed away.
Is the panchen lama still imprisoned in China? How will they find the next Dalai lama?
He is most probably dead or the spirit of the Dalai Lama died in him.
It's doubtful that they killed him, he was just a kid when they took him. They have him squirrelled away somewhere, having gone through heavy indoctrination. Just waiting for the Dali Lama to die.
Shit, they're onto me.
You're unborn fetish?
Isn't that the plot of little Buddha?
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.
Not to mention that he’s setting up a child to be indoctrinated their whole life.
Show me one example, please. In my experience the message for his followers is absolutely the same. He speakes about Buddha, about kindness and wisdom and how to apply the Buddhas words in the modern world.
I have seen quite a few events now that he has held for Tibtain monks and nuns and that were provided with English subtitles. I see no different message there, than he has for his western audiences. Of course, there is a difference in how he speaks about things, but not what he is saying.
The religions where you chill on a stone all your life and meditate are basically the only ok religions.
"Don't be an asshole. That's all."
Nothing wrong with meditating on a stone all your life, but where does a monk's meal come from? Who grows the food? Who weaves the cloth? If it were all just charity, that would be one thing...
Before China, Tibet was a feudal society, with the monastery at the top of the hierarchy. They wielded power; religious, political, and physical. The punishment for disobeying a monk was to have your hands cut off. And this wasn't just some ancient state of affairs, it was happening in the 20th century.
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?
"Little Buddha" staring Bridget Fonda , chris Isaak and Keanu Reves in black face
Planning on international child trafficking this time? Quite progressive abduction policy. Fucking Catholic Buddhist child abusers. How is it they get a pass? "Oh that whole tongue sucking thing was just a joke!" SMDH
Clarification: they are the Catholicism of Buddhism in my view (read up on the history of abuses they committed, cutting off peasants hands, gouging out eyes, regularly abducting kids from families)
This has already been pretty heavily discussed down below.
Take aways: don't be racist judging by a sexualised western lens. If there's more, you'd think that the PRC would have had everyone shouting it from the root tops by now right?
As for the corporeal punishment, the most extreme cases had already been legislated against in the decades before 1951.
But even if they hadn't, which they had, I don't think you agree that human rights deficiency is justification for invasion and annexation. The Qing Empire's slow slicing and other forms of corporeal punishment, child sex cases, etc., didn't justify Imperial Japan, the British, Germans, or whomever's, imperial expansion.
Reformed theocracy as a form of government is peachy keen then? LOL. "We said we're sorry and we won't do the eye gouging thing anymore, now let us resume the child abduction."
As soon as the US gives all the land back to natives and pays reparations to blacks and repatriates the money stolen from workers by the capitalists I'll consider the idea of China relinquishing Tibet back to the theocracy (I probably won't to be fair since we know that will never happen).
Also tongue sucking is a Tibetan greeting now is it? How TF you can say "western sexualized lens" with a straight face is mind boggling.
Catholic buddhist?
Yeah they are an organized theocracy that regularly abused their power and children through history and exploited the peasants. It's my own personal term for them since the parallels are too hard to ignore.
I think they mean "is bhuddist, acts catholic"
Dali llama is a cia stooge
I think it's a little racist to remove agency from people who've made moves equally validly explained as self-defence and preservation against a hostile invader.
The invader was only hostile to the wealthy landowners who quite literally enslaved the people in literally feudal Tibet. Imagine if China had given international recognition to Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, and people were treating her as a sort of government in exile. This is literally what the US is doing with the fucking Dalai Lama
