[Buddha-l] Permit required for reincarnation

[Richard Hayes]

On Friday 03 August 2007 09:42, Steven Rhodes wrote:

> I believe that HHDL has already said that he will not reincarnate in
> Tibet. 

I heard HHDL say in Montreal that he might not come back at all. He said he 
thought the institution of reincarnate lamas had about run its course.

Maybe he'll do what Bertrand Russell did. Russell, it is well known, spent his 
life ridiculing belief in an afterlife. About a year after he died, a 
spiritual medium announced to the world that Russell had a message to deliver 
the world through her. The message was "I was wrong."

I'm quite confident that if HHDL announced unambiguously that he was never 
coming back, the Chinese would nevertheless find his reincarnation, and his 
first public announcement would be "I changed my mind."

-- 
Richard