Comments on: I’m off to recount stories to the Dalai Lama’s nephew … http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/04/28/im-off-to-recount-stories-to-the-dalai-lamas-nephew/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:22:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Phil http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/04/28/im-off-to-recount-stories-to-the-dalai-lamas-nephew/#comment-1133 Phil Tue, 01 May 2007 08:44:57 +0000 http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/04/28/im-off-to-recount-stories-to-the-dalai-lamas-nephew/#comment-1133 "I actually had no idea the CPC believed their selected Panchen Lama was in fact a reincarnation." Yeah, man, continuing a beautiful Chinese tradition. There was a great law in Qing times stipulating exactly where and when (Tibetan and Mongolian) deities could choose to be reincarnated, and the registration procedures they must go through when it happened. In some ways it's laughable, but it makes its own kooky kind of sense, too. “I actually had no idea the CPC believed their selected Panchen Lama was in fact a reincarnation.”

Yeah, man, continuing a beautiful Chinese tradition. There was a great law in Qing times stipulating exactly where and when (Tibetan and Mongolian) deities could choose to be reincarnated, and the registration procedures they must go through when it happened.
In some ways it’s laughable, but it makes its own kooky kind of sense, too.

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