Tibet Viewpoint Series--Living Buddha Reincarnation

Author: Cai Zhichun
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Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: This book, "The Reincarnation of the Living Buddha," systematically, concisely, and accessibly introduces the full picture of the mysterious reincarnation of the Living Buddha. The author strives to start from historical facts and employs a scientific analytical approach, in line with China's relevant religious policies, to narrate the origins of the Living Buddha, the process, procedures, methods, and their education in Buddhist studies, life in monasteries, status, hierarchy, lineages, holding of monastic offices, receiving imperial bestowsals, disputes over reincarnation, and issues up to their death and stupha burial.