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Consolation Buddhahood for Tibet's Panchen losers


Some old Tibet news which would be amusing if it wasn't so... STUPID!

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>From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters)
>Subject: Consolation Buddhahood for Tibet's Panchen losers
>Organization: Copyright 1996 by Reuters
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 8:30:22 PDT

  	  				 
	 BEIJING (Reuter) - The children who were nearly chosen as  
the latest reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's 
second-highest spiritual leader, are now living Buddhas, Xinhua 
news agency said Thursday. 
	 Tsering Wangdu and Ngawang Namdrol, both six years old when  
they were runners-up for Panchen Lama last year, had been chosen 
as reincarnations of other living Buddhas, it said. 
	 Boys who were nearly selected as Panchen Lama or Dalai Lama  
enjoyed a high position in Tibet and were first in line if any 
other living Buddhas needed a reincarnation, Xinhua said. 
	 Exiled Tibetans and the Chinese government clashed late last  
year over the selection of the new reincarnation of the Panchen 
Lama. 
	 The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled god-king, announced his own  
choice of successor in May last year. But Beijing denounced his 
selection as invalid, saying the Dalai Lama's unilateral action 
violated a 200-year-old agreement under which China's government 
must approve all senior lamas. 
	 Tibetan monks took five years to find the reincarnation of a  
73-year-old living Buddha who died in January 1990, finally 
agreeing early this year on Ngawang Namdrol, who was now living 
in a temple and would be enthroned this year, Xinhua said. 
	 Tsering Wangdu, already enthroned as a living Buddha, spent  
his days memorising Buddhist classics, studying Tibetan culture 
and playing, the report said. 
	 China also announced Thursday the unveiling of a monument to  
mark the completion of repair work on the Potala Palace, one of 
Tibet's holiest sites, in the capital Lhasa. 
	 The repairs took five years and cost the government $6.4  
million, Xinhua said. 
	 China, dismissing Western concerns about human rights  
abuses, says life in Tibet has improved immeasurably since the 
People's Liberation Army marched into the region in 1950. 
  	   	

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