From Dr Gautam Pingle.
Sir, Your editorial “A new incarnation” (March 12) on the Dalai Lama raises an interesting question. What’s with Buddhist supreme leaders?
Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of the faith, in the sixth century BC at the age of 29 renounced kingdom, wife and son for life as a mendicant. Norodom Sihanouk, the former king of Cambodia, in 1955, swapped his throne for the post of prime minister. In 2006, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the fourth king of Bhutan, to the horror of his subjects abdicated in favour of his 26-year-old son, Jigme Khesar. And now the Dalai Lama, a god for all Tibetans, has given up the temporal power that he has exercised for all of his 14 reincarnations.
Maybe Arab (and other assorted) self-appointed absolutist leaders can learn a lesson from this, even if they are not Buddhists.
3 comments:
Communist Sihanouk is a destroyer,he never respect our Lord Buddha,including Ho Chiminh and Mao.
International Justice must prevail.
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Yes, He never practices what he preaches. However, what is done can never be undone. He has been playing 2 roles, both a savior and a destroyer, for all his life.
That freaking Sihanouk did that because of his own greed and loving of power otherwise he would have never gone on to kill almost 2 millions of Khmer inhabitants. Furthermore, he now keeps his mouth shut, cavews in and bowing down to ah HUN SEN, the CPP and the Viet just so that his son, the FAG Sihamony can rule as a scare-crow king.
Sihanouk ought to be hung!
P. from Long Beach
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