Author: Jane Macartney

Cited by

• M.J Rose (1)
  • IN: The Book of Lost Fragrances (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: China Tells Living Buddhas To Obtain Permission Before They Reincarnate Beijing April 4, 2007 Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people. For the first time China has given the Government the power to ensure that no new living Buddha can be identified, sounding a possible death knell to a mystical system that dates back at least as far as the 12th century. China already insists that only the Government can approve the appointments of Tibet’s two most important monks, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama’s announcement in May 1995 that a search inside Tibet… had identified the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, who died in 1989, enraged Beijing. The boy chosen by the Dalai Lama has disappeared.
    FROM: Excerpted from an article in the Times (UK) by Jane Macartney., (2007), Article, UK