> SA: Or, are you saying the people could > vote for the continuance of the Dali Lama, but the > Bodhisattva of Compassion reserves the choice to be > reincarnated as the Dali Lama by this Bodhisattvas own > choosing? Wouldn't this also be a change? One that > hasn't happened in the each of the last 14 Dali Lama's > (thus including this one)?
KHA: That could very well be the case. The people's choice could be for an institution, a static pattern, that may not work anymore in circumstances that might unfold. I would think the Bodhisattva of Compassion embodied in the 14th Dalai Lama is anticipating this as the Communist Party is preparing the appoint the 15th Dalai Lama.To them, all this is baloney anyway and their attitude is - if they want a Dalai Lama, we will give them one; ours ! But yet if Tibetan Buddhism is to have a spiritual authority, it has to be from some one or institution that is independent. If we lose that we the essence of Tibetan Buddhism. So perhaps what will happen is that the next Dalai Lama may be chosen while the 14th is alive; reincarnated before the 14th has died. Wow, how do they do that ? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
