{"id":621,"date":"2009-06-01T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/reincarnation-lie-dalai-lamas-empowerment-rejected-by-young-spaniard.html"},"modified":"2009-06-01T14:31:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T14:31:42","slug":"reincarnation-lie-dalai-lamas-empowerment-rejected-by-young-spaniard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/reincarnation-lie-dalai-lamas-empowerment-rejected-by-young-spaniard.html","title":{"rendered":"Reincarnation Lie? On the Empowerment of a Young Spaniard and the Tulku System of Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is interesting. The Dalai Lama<\/a> empowered a young Spanish boy as an incarnate Lama. Now 24, the young man, Osel Hita Torres<\/a>,is moving in another direction with his life (update on the Shambhala Sun<\/a> blog). Lots of good questions on how 21st Century Buddhism<\/a> might unfold within this story.<\/p>\n

\"Dalai<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\nThis case certainly highlights the difficulties of bringing the incarnate lama (tulku) system of lineage from Tibet<\/a>
\ninto the 21st Century. Personally, I don’t think the tulku system will
\nsurvive in the 21st century world for more than a generation or two. It
\nis simply too at odds with democratic, science-based society to
\nsurvive. Also, historically, there is nothing that necessitates it in
\neither the larger Buddhist lineage framework, or even in the system of
\nTantric Buddhism, which survived in India for a long while before
\nanyone came up with the idea of reincarnated teachers. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Rod Meade Sperry at the excellent blog The Worst Horse<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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