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China Slaps Ban On Reincarnation
Tibetan monks must seek permission for rebirth

By Lester Haines
Wednesday 29th August 2007 14:04 GMT

China has rather brilliantly declared that, from next month, Tibetan Buddhist monks must have official permission to reincarnate, Newsweek reports.

The new legislation lays down strict guidelines for making a reappearance and is, according to a statement from the State Administration for Religious Affairs, "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation". The penalty for illicit reincarnation is not noted (100 consecutive life sentences without parole?), but there is method in the Chinese authorities' madness.

As Newsweek points out, the law will effectively prevent any Buddhist monk living outside Tibet* from seeking reincarnation. Accordingly, it also "effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama".

The exiled 72-year-old Dalai Lama is currently in India pondering his successor. Since he's refused to reincarnate in Tibet while it's under Chinese control, there is the provocative possibility of a Chinese-sponsored Dalai Lama going head-to-head with a new young chum for Richard Gere.

Paul Harrison, a Buddhism scholar at Stanford, explained: "It will be a very hot issue. 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."

Harison and other Buddhism scholars are agreed the next Dalai Lama's Dalai Lama will "will likely be from within the 130,000 Tibetan exiles spread throughout India, Europe and North America", while China is evidently preparing the ground for a Tibetan resident rival.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/reincarnation_ban/

[Komichi]

I've been saying for years, this is exactly what China needs to do.

[Tiger Beer]

Funny...and interesting.

[Kuros]

That's funny, because I believe the Dalai Lama's official position is that his reincarnation is conditional on the will of the Tibetan people. Amazing how China's toppling of the repressive Yellow-Hat Buddhist regime there has allowed Tibetan self-determination over the Dalai's reincarnation.

Remember, the Dalai Lama is only one of two influential positions in the Yellow Hat hierarchy. The current Panchen Lama is a Chinese puppet.

[Ya-ta Boy]

The title is misleading. The Chinese haven't banned reincarnation; they've just said that

[twg]

China, that poor, misunderstood cultural utopia...

[bacasper]

I just want to go on record as opposed to any and all government regulation of reincarnation, and I don't care who knows it!

[Rockmonanoff]

All hail the Chinese, the world's soon-to-be richest country and true superpower.

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Buddhist Organizations Come Together
To Support The Karmapa's U.S. Visit



Dear Friends in the Dharma:

On behalf of His Holiness Karmapa's Office of Administration, U.S., we are delighted to share additional information about the confirmation of the visit of the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje to the United States, May 15-June 2, 2008. His Holiness will be giving public talks in three cities: New York, NY; Boulder, CO; and Seattle, WA. Very soon, we will launch the official website, www.karmapavisit.org. This website will present official information and details about the tour as they become available.

In February 2007, His Holiness Karmapa appointed The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche as the representative of his Office of Administration in the United States. The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has been given full responsibility to oversee and direct the visit of His Holiness to the United States. One of His Holiness' key instructions to Ponlop Rinpoche is to work together to plan and implement the tour with all the sanghas who have submitted invitations to His Holiness.

Therefore, beginning in March 2007, Ponlop Rinpoche invited representatives from various sanghas to join the National and Regional Coordinating Committees for the tour. He also invited representatives to serve on the Sangha Advisory Board in each of the three regions where His Holiness will be visiting. Over the past year of extensive planning, many sanghas have contributed time and energy to make this tour a reality, on the coordinating committees and advisory boards.

They include:

Karma Triyana Dharmachakra and affiliates
Nalandabodhi
Shambhala International
Mangala Shri Bhuti

Centers affiliated with Venerable Kalu Rinpoche: Kagyu Droden Kunchab, Kagyu Changchub Chuling, Kagyu Dakshang Chuling,
and Sukhasiddhi Foundation

Satdharma
Naropa University
Centers affiliated with Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche: Vajravidya and Karma Mahasiddha Ling
Rigpa USA
Evam Buddhist Institute
Yongey Buddhist Center

May our energies gather together in a harmonious way, as one sangha family, to welcome the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa
to the United States and support His Holiness' work to benefit countless sentient beings.

Yours in the Dharma,
Diane Biray Gregorio and Mary Chung
Chiefs of Staff for the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
H.H. Karmapa's Office of Administration, U.S.
If you have questions, please send an email to the planning committee in the city nearest you.

New York, NY: [email protected]
Boulder, CO: [email protected]
Seattle, WA: [email protected]

[mistermasan]

please, china, please make transubstantiation illegal. and "original sin". please, oh, please. and the rapture. while you are at it outlaw aging and death.

[Tiger Beer]

That's a billion Chinese that are going to have to look for a new country to reincarnate into!

[agentX]

This makes abundant sense.

After all, China shouldn't have to execute the same monks over and over again. If reincarnation is banned, at the very least they'll only have to deal with new monks.

While they're on this banning streak, we in the US would like China to ban sloppy manufacturing practices, labor abuse, and X-tasy in toys. That would go a long way towards improving foreign relations.

[Adventurer]

The Chinese Government is one of the most offending governments in the planet when it comes to human rights, pollution, and the supporting of dictatorships. Their suppression of Tibetan culture and religion is horrible and also their suffocation of the Catholic church is also intolerable. I am not sure what can be done for Tibet, but I personally think Tibet's culture is something to be preseved, protected, not destroyed.

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