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China Bans Reincarnation

I wasn't paying attention to much last month when the news came out that China had banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. The goal of the law, of course, is to make it easier for China to anoint the next Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama, in response, issued a statement saying that he won't reincarnate in Tibet.

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