¿Qué probabilidades hay de que la revista Newsweek fotografíe, en Manhattan, a mi amigo Christopher Phillips -autor de Sócrates enamorado y de Socrates café– con su hermosa hija Caliope; y al defenestrado Eliot Spritzer? Christopher tiene cara de ¡No lo puedo creer!; y Cali parece alejarse como instintivamente.
Este es el tipo de cosas que que vienen a la mente cuando algunas personas hablan del modelo chino, o de la libertad en China: El régimen de Beijing les ha prohibido a los monjes budistas reencarnar en Tibet, sin autorización del gobierno.
By Matthew Philips
Newsweek
Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue – In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.” But beyond the irony lies China’s true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region’s Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering.
Gracias a mi amigo Constantino por el tip.
