China has banned reincarnation if it was not pre-plan approved by the government

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It is not only the personification of the total state control over everyone and everything, no, everything is much trickier than it seems. Looks are everything, of course, complete nonsense: as a general government can decide what will happen to you in the next life? And the first superficial impression is precisely this question. But in fact, the purpose of all this is to curb the influence of the Dalai Lama: Because Buddhist monks currently not allowed to reincarnate without special government approval, the Chinese government appears technically possible to know where to be born the next Dalai Lama. If, for example, after some time, will someone and begin to argue that it is - the next Dalai Lama, the government can simply say, "Excuse me! It seems that in our records is nothing like that! "And it will be an additional obstacle to the spread of Tibetan Buddhism. The current Dalai Lama from 1959 he has been living in India, and maintains that in the future will be born in Tibet, because it does not want to get back under the Chinese oppression.

via factroom.ru