An Open Letter to the Chinese Government

Look, we get it. You’re powerful. You have a great deal of power over most facets of Chinese society.

But even you cannot compel the Dalai Lama to reincarnate if he doesn’t want to.

Maybe a better (or at least more scientific) way of putting it is that you cannot force Buddhists to accept your own Dalai Lama appointee if the current Dalai Lama doesn’t want to reincarnate, because come on, everybody would see right through that.

Get over it.

"Bos grunniens at Yundrok Yumtso Lake" by Dennis Jarvis [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Here is a Tibetan yak, for no reason.


Photo credit: “Bos grunniens at Yundrok Yumtso Lake” by Dennis Jarvis [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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