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**TimoPizaz** · 09-07-2011, 12:31 AM

To make matters far more difficult these children who do (allegedly) remember details don't volunteer them at such an age, generally; they may also need to be queried as to some specific image or object or name, which they can respond to. This is how Tibetan rebirths are allegedly "found"; they show the kid two sets of objects, one from the dead lama and one from somewhere else. The child who is the rebirth is expected to select only the implements from the dead lama

Tibetan tulkus are sometimes chosen at the age of 3 - as was the Dalai Lama. To say that a child of that age is 'choosing the belongings of his predecessor' - an elderly man who died somewhere else at an earlier time, is to me a flight of fancy. Firstly the 'testing' is done privately and secondly there are many ways that a tiny child might pick something first, depending on the most attactive colour, texture, or the object in closest proximity to the child and so on. Hardly a reliable way of proving reincarnation I would have though.

Additionally, years ago I asked a Tibetan tulku in private if he had ever been able to remember any of his past lives -or his previous life- and he said "No".

...but of course people who have blind faith believe what they're told to believe !

Stevenson's research makes it difficult to reject rebirth I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion.

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09-07-2011, 12:31 AM	#11
TimoPizaz Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	To make matters far more difficult these children who do (allegedly) remember details don't volunteer them at such an age, generally; they may also need to be queried as to some specific image or object or name, which they can respond to. This is how Tibetan rebirths are allegedly "found"; they show the kid two sets of objects, one from the dead lama and one from somewhere else. The child who is the rebirth is expected to select only the implements from the dead lama Tibetan tulkus are sometimes chosen at the age of 3 - as was the Dalai Lama. To say that a child of that age is 'choosing the belongings of his predecessor' - an elderly man who died somewhere else at an earlier time, is to me a flight of fancy. Firstly the 'testing' is done privately and secondly there are many ways that a tiny child might pick something first, depending on the most attactive colour, texture, or the object in closest proximity to the child and so on. Hardly a reliable way of proving reincarnation I would have though. Additionally, years ago I asked a Tibetan tulku in private if he had ever been able to remember any of his past lives -or his previous life- and he said "No". ...but of course people who have blind faith believe what they're told to believe ! Stevenson's research makes it difficult to reject rebirth I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion. .
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