Dalai Lama isn't King of the Buddhists.The article, "Why Won't the Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (dä`lī lä`mə) [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935–, Pick a Fight?" (January/February 2004 issue of the Humanist), contains a significant inaccuracy in·ac·cu·ra·cy n. pl. in·ac·cu·ra·cies 1. The quality or condition of being inaccurate. 2. An instance of being inaccurate; an error. in its opening sentence: "The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and temporal leader in exile and the man Buddhists believe to be the fourteenth incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion ... "As in other major religions, there are many different sects of Buddhism. The Tibetan-based Vajrayana, or Tantric tan·tra n. Any of a comparatively recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit and concerned with powerful ritual acts of body, speech, and mind. , school, while well known, comprises a minority of Buddhists and it is atone in holding the view that the Dalai Lama is an incarnation of the Buddha. Stating that "Buddhists believe" the Daiai Lama is an incarnation of the Buddha is roughly akin to declaring that all Christians believe the pope infallible in·fal·li·ble adj. 1. Incapable of erring: an infallible guide; an infallible source of information. 2. . It isn't necessarily so. Marc Grobman Fanwood, NJ |
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