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That was my overriding feeling too. It's a massive political problem for the exiled Tibetans.


I would very much like to hear your take on it FBM. I can't work that out at all.

Well, if we reject the concept of Self as an immortal soul-like substance that literally transmigrates, that opens up a lot of possibilities. For example, in the Milinda Panha:

“Can there be any rebirth where there is no transmigration?”
“Yes there can, just as a man can light one oil-lamp
from another but nothing moves from one lamp to the
other; or as a pupil can learn a verse by heart from a teacher
but the verse does not transmigrate from teacher to pupil.” http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Budd...da/milinda.pdf