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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He took a million dollar payment from the Nexium cult and gave it cover and cache. Not the first red flag. Nexium is the cult that sexually abused, starved and BRANDED women. [/quote]

This was the very first thing I thought of. DL is taking a page from the Keith Reinere playbook. [/quote]

Wow I had never heard about this - and I have a sibling who was a Tibetan Buddhist for a while and our family met the DL many years ago. This sibling is no longer a TB but a hyper spiritual evangelical with strong ethics.

This is really sad that any religious leader would misuse their position of trust in such a way.

I had assumed that this behavior was due to dementia but PPs are right to question that if there is a history of corruption and cover ups.

One aspect that may contribute to this is that DLs are designated at very young ages and kept separate in all male schools. This is undoubtedly very unhealthy to be granted god like status at young ages without adequate checks and balances on moral choices as they mature.[/quote]

https://www.biography.com/religious-figures/dalai-lama-throne

How the Dalai Lama Took the Throne at Age 4
The 14th spiritual leader of Tibet was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th lama when he was just a child.
By Lesley KennedyPUBLISHED: MAY 13, 2020

Lhamo Thondup was just a 2-year-old boy, one of seven children living on a farm in a small Tibetan village, when a search party declared him the 14th Dalai Lama.
Before the discovery, he was considered an ordinary boy who spent time collecting eggs in the family’s chicken coop with his mother, according to the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
“Another favorite occupation of mine as an infant was to pack things in a bag as if I was about to go on a long journey,” he says, according to the office. “I'm going to Lhasa, I'm going to Lhasa, I would say. This, coupled with my insistence that I be allowed always to sit at the head of the table, was later said to be an indication that I must have known that I was destined for greater things.”
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Alexander Gardner, director and chief editor of The Treasury of Lives, a resource for the lived history of Tibet and its surrounding regions, says it is entirely normal for a child as young as 2 to be identified as a reincarnated lama.
“Particularly in the case of powerful incarnations such as the Dalai Lamas or Karmapas, the search would begin almost immediately,” he says, noting a suitable amount of time would need to pass following the death of the last lama. “The consciousness of the dead lama would have to enter the womb of the mother of the next incarnation and be born, and then they would need the child to be old enough to show signs and be subjected to tests. So 2 is reasonable; a year transition, and a child of about a year old to test.”
A search party is tasked with following a set of signs pointing them to the reincarnated lama
Armed with a series of signs, a search party, commissioned by the Tibetan government and led by high lamas and dignitaries, was dispatched to locate the new incarnation of the previous 13 dalai lamas — the first of which was born in 1391.
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The 14th Dalai Lama has sat on the throne for more than eight decades
Recognized as the new Dalai Lama, the boy officially took the throne as the spiritual leader of Tibet at age 4 on February 22, 1940.
“In terms of a 4-year-old taking the throne, the dalai lamas had been on the Tibetan throne for over 250 years by then, so the country was used to it,” Gardner says. “Tibet didn’t make a distinction between religious and political power. The Dalai Lama was a god in human form (Chenrezig, the bodhisattva of compassion), and he was the head of state. He could teach the path to liberation and he could negotiate international treaties. Of course, there was a cabinet and an assembly and advisors of all sorts, but these also were all monks, so the religious and political power was all unified.”
But given that the Tibetan government operated with reincarnated successors, waiting until adulthood was not an option, Gardner adds.
“They would place the child on the throne, but the regent would continue to rule the country until the Dalai Lama came of age,” he says. “Other Tibetan incarnations are enthroned in a similar way, becoming the head of a monastery while just a few years old, with abbots and other administrators actually running the place.”[/quote]

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