without official approval by the government

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227400/site/newsweek/

8/29/2007 10:22:49 AM

i see what they did there

8/29/2007 10:27:40 AM

I'm sure God won't mind bowing his will to the communist leaders in China.

8/29/2007 10:39:00 AM

^
reincarnation requires a god?

8/29/2007 11:57:16 AM

i read this earlier and laughed

it's a good thing someone finally got a firm grasp on this - before it was chaos!

8/29/2007 11:57:56 AM

how can they ban something that doesnt exist?

8/29/2007 12:05:00 PM

honestly .... this really is one of the most obsurd things i've ever heard of .. :x


i mean i have some pretty fucking off the wall accquatiances and i dont think any of them can hold a candle to offically banning reincarnation

8/29/2007 12:06:32 PM

pretty clever political move, really. How one goes about enforcing it is lost on me, but the first thing I thougt of was an azn version of these guys running around the Himalayas:



[Edited on August 29, 2007 at 1:16 PM. Reason : .]

8/29/2007 1:16:11 PM

...reminds me of that town that banned "The Devil" a few years back.

remember that?

Americans can be just as dumb.

8/29/2007 2:39:31 PM

^Don't recall that, though sadly I can believe it.

8/29/2007 6:34:09 PM

For all of you who are claiming to be confused, it's really not that confusing. China wants to lay claim to naming the next Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama carries a huge amount of political and religious power in Tibet, and if they were able to pick the person that the Dalai Lama supposedly reincarnated into, then they could pick someone who would enforce the policies of PRC in Tibet.

8/29/2007 8:57:56 PM

I feel safe in saying that some Chinese law makers are coming back as pubic lice in the next life because of this.

8/29/2007 9:50:01 PM

^^ so why do they need to do something stupid like this?

the Chinese gov't. has already disposed of the Pachen Lama who was identified by the monks, and replaced him with their own choice ... once the Dalai Lama dies, the Chinese-installed Pachen Lama will have political authority for the Tibetean people.




[Edited on August 29, 2007 at 9:56 PM. Reason : ]

8/29/2007 9:53:28 PM

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