[Buddha-l] [Fwd: Kyabjé Pema Norbu Rinpoche Enters Parinirvana]

[Jayarava]

--- On Sun, 29/3/09, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Not cynical, but to modern. The retoric is a ritual. Normal
> people die, rinpoches enter into parinirvana. There are different words
> in Tibetan for bodies of rinpoches and bodies of normal people. But
> words are not a projection of the world. Different things can be called 
> the same, identical things can be called by different words. The
> retoric just indicates the perspective from which people with more
> social capital are no longer a part of this world. In the modern world 
> all things are part of the earthly causal chain, in the medieval world 
> there are many heavens and hells, many discourses and perspectives.

Erik, thanks. This is quite helpful.

JR