Reincarnation
Voice of America has a report about a new Chinese law: “The new law bans Tibetan lamas, or monks, from reincarnating without Chinese government approval.”
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Posted by Jungletrader at 12:29 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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August 29th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Unless you agree to come back as an endangered species of course.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
It’s quite sad how the Chinese continue to try to subsume Tibetan culture.
Including, erecting some giant butt ugly statue of Mao near Lhasa.
The current Dalai Lama, in his 70’s, has of course been living in exile for some number of years in India.
Apparently, there are “lesser” lamas who will now (absurdly enough) have to have Beijing’s imprimatur before they can have official lama status.
Chinese treatment of Tibetan culture, coupled with egregious growth seemingly unconcerned with pollution (despite protestations to the contrary), general repression of free speech, usurpation of homes and land to the state’s use, certain medical programs, on and on, it’s very hard to like “the Chinese” these days.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
The chinese have 200 million people getting rich and 1 billion getting poor. Troubles a brewing.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
What would they do if a Tibetan lama reincarnated as a Chinese official?
August 29th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
With a little luck, Mao reincarnated as a goat in Saudi Arabia.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Yeah Theo, because of their one child policy and female infanticide, there are now millions of randy young Chinese bucks with no hope of finding a mate. That can’t be a model of social stability either.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Once the commie rat bastages got you, they got you. Even death is no escape. You’ll either come back as part of a sanctioned 5 year plan for population growth, or you wont be allowed to come back at all.
I guess the only escape would be for them to renounce the concept of reincarnation and then die with a “na na nana na! You can’t get me!”
August 29th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
I’ve been noticing over the past several months that there’s been a concerted push on both sides of the political aisle to embarrass China prior to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Could it be that China’s cozy relationship with the hard line Islamics in the Sudan (China gets oil, Sudan gets Chinese weapons and technology) is cropping up all sorts of stories of leaden toys, poisoned toothpaste, the Chinese stock market bubble, and the Chinese not lifting a finger - in fact, making sure its veto power is wielded as deftly as Mao’s Little Red Book - to stop genocide in Darfur? (Hopefully, once Darfur is freed, it won’t turn into the next hipster vacation with wall-to-wall Starbucks and Pottery Barns and mind-numbing trance music - an African Ibiza, if you like.)
If so, this is where the Mob Media can redeem itself for its frequent and prior transgressions - if it can go after Bush with the zeal of piranhas, it can whittle away the carefully-modeled veneer of the “new” China and show that nothing has changed since the days of Mao.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Interesting point, OIBK. I’ve been wondering why all of a sudden there are lots of Chinese perfidies in the realm of business, when surely they were not exactly pure beforehand.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Do the Chinese still read (except for secrets sold by Billy the Kid) everything from back ti front?
If so…any war with China could be fun.
Oh and an order of fried won-ton, please.
August 30th, 2007 at 9:22 am
The U.S. threatened tariffs or some such, then early this month, China threatened to start unloading some of the Treasury Bills they are holding. Or something like that. Apparently there’s been a lot of chest thumping of late. I don’t know if all the alarms about products coming out of China is a part of that, however. Remember one goat, er, guy committed suicide over one of those products.
Thing is, I’d bet that this isn’t just a sudden outbreak of problems. If it is politics, then the government is using what they’ve known for a long time about some of the dangerous products coming out of China. China may have their so-called free zones where they leave people alone to do business, but most of the country’s people still live under the thumb of the state. The state run factories also do a lot of manufacturing, but the “employees” are little more than slaves. And then there are those factories that are manned by actual slaves.
It’s a complicated economy.
(The previous was written off the top of my memory–and I’ve slept since reading the article. And it’s 6:30 AM and I haven’t been able to sleep. And the dog ate my homework.)
August 30th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Lets also not forget that much of what we know and when we know it is predicated upon our msm deciding to take up the issue and broadcast it.
These problems with Chinese product saftey are long standing, continual, continuous and unending. It only seems to be a recently developed issue because it has only recently received wide exposure through those tasked with the duty of distributing information to us citizens.
The attention of the msm will wander off to something else and all will seem to have been fixed, cleaned up and/or cured with the Chinese product problems, but they wont have been changed.
Then, months or a year or so from now, another something will grab the msm’s attention in the area of bad or dangerous product out of China and the wheel will be reinvented and everyone will wonder about the politics behind the outing of China as a shoddy producer, again, again.