or even forgo reincarnation altogether. For the CCP, the Dalai Lama’s succession is an opportunity to seize even tighter control of the Tibetan Buddhist faith and ensure its practitioners no ...
Courtesy The Island Buddhist monks, dignitaries, and representatives from Buddhist societies and temples across the world at the event A grand welcome as well as a blessing ceremony was recently held ...
At just four months old, Dorje was identified as a reincarnate lama, the reincarnation of a venerated leader of a Tibetan Buddhist sect. After he graduates high school next year, the teenager who ...
an endless social cycle of governance that explains the sudden rise and spectacular failure of tyrants, which leads to an urgent democratic rebirth. Is every civilization doomed to rise ...
Thereby they transformed from networks of teaching institutions rooted in the master–disciple relationship towards an emphasis on teaching lineages and ultimately reincarnation. This lecture will ...
Many experts on religion have been debating and still continue to debate on the issue of Hinduism versus Buddhism While certain schools of thought believe that Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism and ...
He, like Brahman, always was, and will always be, beyond birth and rebirth. Buddhism too is supposed to believe in karma and rebirth. But in my view, this is a human distortion of what the Buddha ...