PhilipLaos
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The Dalai Lama, and other Tibetan Tulkus (reincarnated lamas) and high-ranking Rinpoches (spiritual teachers) are said to be able choose the location and family in which to be reincarnated.
I wonder if any here expect to be able to choose the location and family into which they will enter in their next rebirth. Or if anyone has any other thoughts/comments regarding future lives.
This is an extract from: Tulkus: Masters of Reincarnation (Sorry, but the website is unavailable)
I wonder if any here expect to be able to choose the location and family into which they will enter in their next rebirth. Or if anyone has any other thoughts/comments regarding future lives.
This is an extract from: Tulkus: Masters of Reincarnation (Sorry, but the website is unavailable)
PhilipThrough one's practice of the Buddhist path wisdom increases and the forces of ignorance are transcended and one acquires an ever-increasing control over the wheel of rebirth. This will eventually lead to the power that enables one to take birth not out of the compulsive force of karma but in accordance with one's conscious aspiration and altruistic concern to benefit the world. Such a being is known as a bodhisattva and is characterized by the ability to enter the world at will in order to guide those ready to be trained.
The spiritual technology whereby controlled rebirth could be achieved as a social institution was never fully developed by the Indians however; this did not occur until Buddhism reached Tibet where it cross-fertilized with the great Himalayan mystics of Central Asia. These currents together produced the institution of the tulku, or officially recognized reincarnate lama. Tibetans came to cherish this phenomenon as one of their greatest achievements, with great amounts of energy and resources poured into its production of "reincarnate lamas".