SS: With his relentless espousal of non-violence, the Dalai Lama embodies Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation. This helps to explain why China is so intent on choosing his successor, and why India and the US must make sure that it does not.
taike0886 on
> “[With regard to contact and negotiations between the central government of China and the 14th Dalai Lama](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-says-dalai-lama-must-thoroughly-correct-his-political-views-2024-06-20/), our policy has been consistent and clear,” said Lin Jian, a spokesman at China’s foreign ministry. “The key is that the 14th Dalai Lama must fundamentally reflect on and thoroughly correct his political views,” Lin said at a regular ministry news conference.
One assumes any Dalai Lama successor that meets Chinese approval will have politically correct views.
roosley1 on
How anyone can think that a Government that’s officially atheist could pick the next Dalai Lama and be accepted by practicing Buddhists is beyond me. Isn’t the Panchen Lama that was picked by the Dalai Lama still under house arrest?
MagneticRetard on
This is a super unpopular opinion for Reddit but I don’t really care: China’s policy on regulating reincarnation and picking their own successor is a good thing.
The Tibetan successor system, whether your average Redditor likes to admit it or not, is just child kidnapping in the guise of spirituality.
The idea that bunch of Tibetan leaders should have the right via religious justification to be able to take a child from bunch of farmers in Tibet by telling them that he is a reincarnation of some previous monk, and then groom him into some kind of spiritual leader is crazy. And the fact that people defend it because they don’t like China is even crazier to me.
Are we gonna really sit here and pretend that some kid being taken away from his parents without his input and being forced to live as a monk is better? Somebody has got to explain to me because i feel like i am living in some crazy world
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SS: With his relentless espousal of non-violence, the Dalai Lama embodies Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation. This helps to explain why China is so intent on choosing his successor, and why India and the US must make sure that it does not.
> “[With regard to contact and negotiations between the central government of China and the 14th Dalai Lama](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-says-dalai-lama-must-thoroughly-correct-his-political-views-2024-06-20/), our policy has been consistent and clear,” said Lin Jian, a spokesman at China’s foreign ministry. “The key is that the 14th Dalai Lama must fundamentally reflect on and thoroughly correct his political views,” Lin said at a regular ministry news conference.
One assumes any Dalai Lama successor that meets Chinese approval will have politically correct views.
How anyone can think that a Government that’s officially atheist could pick the next Dalai Lama and be accepted by practicing Buddhists is beyond me. Isn’t the Panchen Lama that was picked by the Dalai Lama still under house arrest?
This is a super unpopular opinion for Reddit but I don’t really care: China’s policy on regulating reincarnation and picking their own successor is a good thing.
The Tibetan successor system, whether your average Redditor likes to admit it or not, is just child kidnapping in the guise of spirituality.
The idea that bunch of Tibetan leaders should have the right via religious justification to be able to take a child from bunch of farmers in Tibet by telling them that he is a reincarnation of some previous monk, and then groom him into some kind of spiritual leader is crazy. And the fact that people defend it because they don’t like China is even crazier to me.
China “kidnapped” the Penchen lama, who now lives a normal life according to the government [[1](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/06/china-says-panchen-lama-living-a-normal-life-20-years-after-disappearance)] which has been confirmed by the Dalai Lama himself through his own credible sources [[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima#:~:text=In%20April%202018,1995.%5B34%5D)]. How is this not objectively a good thing?
Are we gonna really sit here and pretend that some kid being taken away from his parents without his input and being forced to live as a monk is better? Somebody has got to explain to me because i feel like i am living in some crazy world