[Buddha-l] Permit required for reincarnation
Richard Hayes
rhayes at unm.edu
Fri Aug 3 11:07:11 MDT 2007
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
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