> > SA previously: 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.
SA: Excellent comment. My wonderings are upon what
would be the decision that people would make as they
vote. Are they voting to rid a static pattern, an
institution that no longer is viable, the Dali Lama?
Or would the people be voting upon a deeper
institution, one of the Bodhisattva and the
Bodhisattvas role? In the latter's case, it doesn't
matter what the people vote for, for the Bodhisattva
has taken a vow and will return anyways. This return
therefore could be either one of the people's
declaration and institutional support, or this return
would turn into a more self-declarative return one in
which the institution doesn't highlight and express in
a very easy way for all to see that this is the
Bodhisattva of Compassion, but one in which the
Bodhisattva would need to declare in a more personal
way to others that isn't as instantly public as the
Dali Lama's high-profile way is. Or, the Bodhisattva
of Compassion sustains a way of acknowledgement and
appearance that is similar to the current one, but not
so public and high-profile, more sustained in a
monastery or countryside, etc...
But, as I mentioned, how will the people frame
their minds in their vote? Will it be for or against
the institute of the Dali Lama or are will the choice
of a Bodhisattva having such a position be pondered by
the people? These questions seem more tricky,
person-to-person, and how much people have overlaid
the static patterns of the Dali Lama upon the
Bodhisattva of Compassion? Has the latter become in
the minds of people only knowable as the Dali Lama,
and how will people therefore perceive the election
results? How would the Chinese view these election
results? For as we know, the Chinese may view the
results as either a rejection of old religion or a
support of the ancient religion? This then will shape
how the Chinese approach the culture of Tibet in the
geography of Tibet.
Khoo Hock Aun:
> 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 !
SA: Yes, excellent point. For those that would
understand that the Bodhisattva is not attached to the
Dali Lama it would be easier to recognize that the
Chinese can have the Dali Lama, but the Bodhisattva of
Compassion will return in another form so the Tibetans
and Buddhists could say and with a certain defiance
'See you can't take what is truly the more
significant!'.
Khoo Hock Aun:
> 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 ?
SA: good question. I still go wow with the whole
idea of reincarnation.
SA
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