I have taken an interest in meditation recently and therefore learning about Buddhism. I am told one does not have to be religious to practice Buddhist meditation. Good thing, looks to me they are just as crazy as any other supernatural religion.
SIDBHARI, India – As No. 3 lama in Tibetan Buddhism and 17th incarnation, a 23 year old Karmapa Lama has spent his life immersed in the Buddhist arts of meditation, study and prayer, is set to replace the Dalia Lama when he passes away. Once the Dalai Lama is gone, the process of choosing a young boy as his reincarnation means decades may pass before the new Dalai Lama is ready to assume the leadership.
It's a role that the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu sect, one of the four streams of Tibetan Buddhism
Born in 1985 to a nomadic family in the vast Tibetan plateau, he was enthroned as the 17th Karmapa at the age of seven after mystical signs identified him as the reincarnation of the 16th Karmapa, who died in exile in India in 1981.
Other monks of the sect championed another boy as the true reincarnation, but Dorje's status was recognized by the Dalai Lama and also by Beijing, which hoped he might emerge as a more malleable authority they could use to weaken the Dalai Lama.
But Chinese hopes were dashed when he escaped Tibet at age 14,
Beijing has long said it brought modernity to a region where monks and wealthy landowners had long ruled over huge tracts of land worked by slaves and serfs.
His reincarnation was recognized by the central government. (Strange)
The religion's second-highest figure, the still-teenaged Panchen Lama, is inside Tibet, presumed under Chinese control.
The Karmapa's sect is Tibet's oldest and was the most politically powerful until it was supplanted by the Dalai Lama's Gelugpa School, known as the "yellow hats" 350 years ago.
Sectarian strife will ensue once the Dalia Lama dies.
It's a role that the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu sect, one of the four streams of Tibetan Buddhism
Born in 1985 to a nomadic family in the vast Tibetan plateau, he was enthroned as the 17th Karmapa at the age of seven after mystical signs identified him as the reincarnation of the 16th Karmapa, who died in exile in India in 1981.
Other monks of the sect championed another boy as the true reincarnation, but Dorje's status was recognized by the Dalai Lama and also by Beijing, which hoped he might emerge as a more malleable authority they could use to weaken the Dalai Lama.
But Chinese hopes were dashed when he escaped Tibet at age 14,
Beijing has long said it brought modernity to a region where monks and wealthy landowners had long ruled over huge tracts of land worked by slaves and serfs.
His reincarnation was recognized by the central government. (Strange)
The religion's second-highest figure, the still-teenaged Panchen Lama, is inside Tibet, presumed under Chinese control.
The Karmapa's sect is Tibet's oldest and was the most politically powerful until it was supplanted by the Dalai Lama's Gelugpa School, known as the "yellow hats" 350 years ago.
Sectarian strife will ensue once the Dalia Lama dies.
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