this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
231 points (97.5% liked)

Not The Onion

18918 readers
1243 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism makes apparent reference to succession of exiled spiritual leader Dalai Lama

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I thought the Dalai Lama said the he would not reincarnate.

Obviously because he know chinese influence would institute someone who supports Chinese control as the next Dalai lama.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, then Beijing anointed some random to be the next one iirc, and he's not recognized officially. I'm guessing that's this dude.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

China baaically kidnapped the Pachen Lama. No one has seen him for years. He is either replaced or brainwashed....either way, the Pachen names tha Dalai. So basically China is pucking a Dalai lama that will support China over Tibet.

[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 5 points 12 hours ago

Tibetan Buddhism with Chinese characteristics

[–] astro@leminal.space 6 points 13 hours ago

The catholic church also made a deal so they could continue operating there, they have to acknowledge that the CCP is more important than god.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can only reincarnate with a social credit score of 1000 or more.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

aww, my credit score will never get that high.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

There's already a law on the books in China giving the state authority over reincarnation. Which sounds insane, but it's specifically within the context of the top monks in the Tibetan branch of Buddhism building their line of succession through "reincarnation". That's why when the Panchen Lama's reincarnation was identified, the Chinese government whisked him and his family away and selected their own.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago

Ah right, the chinese budhism.

[–] Bot@sub.community 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LOL, Physics Law must follow CCP lead next?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 12 hours ago

Oh they are actually fully open to science. Let them govern magic sky daddies, if it pleases them.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Once again, I'm humbled just when I think the universe can't create a brand new sentence.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 137 points 1 day ago

This has been expected since the abduction of the real Panchen Lama

[–] aMockTie@piefed.world 66 points 1 day ago (24 children)

Archive link.

This apparently isn't even the "real" Panchen Lama, but is the one chosen by China to replace the one that was kidnapped and was chosen by the Dalai Lama.

load more comments (24 replies)
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know it's a fake Panchen Lama because they're saying the next Dalai Lama must adhere to what an atheist government that was responsible for annexing and taking over their land has to say.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Spoiler alert: they're all fake

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

This one is extra fake though, like if Trump/Vance decided to name their own pope. Honestly wouldn't be surprised, now that the idea occurred to me.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why would the rules of reincarnations be subject to any laws of man? How is it that Beijing could possibly exert control over metaphysical powers? To suggest so, proves the speaker does not believe in reincarnation and should be ignored on the subject, no?

No authority greater than Xi Xing Ping is absolute authoritarianism.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

The catch that always seems to bring this heavenly process down into the dirt is “identifying” the reincarnated lama. China’s rhetoric, if you look closely, is all about ensuring outside countries don’t interfere in that process. They are trying to assert that only they have the ability to recognize when the reincarnation has taken place, and who it is. Not that they can control who it is.

I know, it’s bullshit. But “people get hung up on bullshit” is a shortened history of human civilization.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 day ago

The Panchen Lama is a puppet of the CCP.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 49 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Hes only saying that because he was kidnapped and brainwashed

load more comments (16 replies)
[–] devolution@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

This is incredibly stupid.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So a reincarnation based religious system that spans countless realities, creatures, and millennia is somehow beholden to this reality's 76 year old country led by a dictator? Makes sense.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Only China’s CCP can protect the sanctity of this process from politically motivated interference by devils in Chinese Taiwan and the United States.

You know, or so they’d have you believe.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 20 hours ago

That's where you take issue?

load more comments
view more: next ›