China bans Buddhist reincarnations

[eric_hinkle]

This must be a joke. Provided one believes in reincarnation, how in the heck would you even enforce such a law?

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

:faceplant: Oy.

Man but I need some kind of "wacky political stuff" userpic.

Comments

[gremy]

[jordangreywolf]

I suppose the way to "enforce" it would be to arrest anyone who claims to be reincarnated (without proper permission from the Chinese government).

Anyway, toward the bottom, the writer attempts to explain the justification: It apparently is meant as a precursor to an attempt by the Chinese government to put forth its own Dalai Lama once the current one passes on.

[jordangreywolf]

The current Dalai Lama has already announced he will not reincarnate in China or anywhere controlled by it, so stick it in your eye, Chinese government!

Brock

[orig_rune]

I was going to post this the other day but things got in the way.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so arrogant.

Yes folks, Chinese communism wants your soul too. Maybe they expect to sell them like body parts...

[eric_hinkle]

I wonder what kind of an uproar there would be if Shrub was even suspected of wanting to pass a law like this? Yet China does it and nothing. (Well, not much of anything.)