So between 500 CE when Buddhism came to Tibet, and 1584 CE, it was someone else. This Dalai Lama has only been in charge for basically 1/3 of the time.
So yeah, no kidding Tibetan Buddhism will survive after this Dalai Lama kicks this incarnation. Did you know that the Vatican has survived its most recent change in leadership as well? Shocking!
A lot of areas that seem like only pedestrian areas in Europe are still roads. Cars regularly drive on tiny streets, especially in Italy and France, nearly clipping people eating dinner.
“OK, so, I want a Honda Civic, but for up and down instead of forwards and backwards.”
A judgment that forces the reader to think perhaps you were the one who was hurt.
Honestly, unless there’s a shared currency to keep afloat, regional bodies like this are always a tentative benefit at best. Especially in this neighborhood.
Rwanda is orders of magnitude more just a normal, functional country than DRC.
Well, it would be entirely stupid for the CCP to abduct him because he’s a reincarnation and then kill him. He’s just going to reincarnate again.