How would someone become a Dalai Lama?
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Being the reincarnate of a former One.
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try\nhttp://www.buddhism.org/email/\nWhen completed it should help.
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I once met a monk who trained himself to stay awake for 3 weeks, but he technique was different than what you are asking. He was using meditation to change consciousness instead of sleep, but he could stay awake for 3 weeks. It was a very painful training to get there though.
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You can start going to a local buddhist group.  Most communities have them.  Look in the phone book or on the internet.  Sangha or Dharma are good words to use.  Asian temples are often buddhist, so you can start there if nothing else.  Start reading buddhist books and practicing meditation.  If you do it you will become it.  And stop going to christian church if you don't want to be christian anymore.
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There is a process which you would have to first undergo.  It involves a great deal of study and ritual.  The first step would be to contact a Rabbi and share your interest.  He may push you away, but dont give up.  Some Rabbis follow the tradition of turning away a potential convert three times before finally deciding to follow through with the conversion.
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Depends on--\nwhich religion, &\nsinging skill.
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I can't imagine a buddhist monk converting to Islam, myself.  The two could not be further apart philosophically.
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Better take some classes:\n\nhttp://www.sahajayoga.org/worldwidecontacts/default.asp
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The people that can help are the Peace Corps. Ask what they would like to have and work from there. You could pick culture and be most effective by prepareing. \nI am sure the second language, local customs, laws,etc.\nThen something you can offer them. English lessons, math, science, agriculture. Maybe you have someting particular for them.\nI'll list an interesting book about working in China. There is a short movie also.
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Not so much in the US, but in other countries, yes...\n\nNo, there are. The Dalai Lama has founded one...
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Why don't hand over Tibet to Dalai Lama and his followers called Buddhist. Free Tibet right now.  Kashmir is divided into 2 parts one occupied by India and second part is with Pakistan.  Majority of Kashmiri are Muslims.  Let Kashmiri decide whether they want a seprate state named Kashmir or they want to join with Pakistan.  They have decided not to live with India.\n\nYou idea is full of mischives or misunderstanding.  Do not avoid facts nor try to hide them.  Be realistic what your inner says.
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I found this (the link is below)\n\nHow do I become a Buddhist?\nJoin a Buddhist sangha (a temple, church or group), support them, be supported by them and continue to learn more about the Buddha's teachings. Read about the teachings, apply them in your life, attend services and retreats, open your heart and mind to the working of Great Compassion. Then, when you are ready, you can formally become a Buddhist by undertaking the Affirmation or Ordination Ceremony.\n\nAffirmation and Ordination\n \nThe decision to become a Buddhist is marked by either Affirmation or Ordination Ceremony. These two types of ceremonies are different but share certain religious aspects. First of all, the Affirmation Ceremony or the Kikyoshiki is unique to Shin Buddhism only. It is a form of personal religious confirmation, in which the participant publicly acknowledges his/her orientation and commitment to the Pure Land path of Shinran Shonin and the recognition of the working of Great Compassion (Other Power) in their lives. As stated above, this ceremony is unique to Shin Buddhism, which is a lay religious movement and not a religious order. This ceremony does not entail the transmission of tthe Three Jewels or the Five Precepts from teacher (monk) to disciple. In Shin Buddhism, we are each others teachers. Moreover, according to Shin Buddhism, the ultimate transmission can only come from the direct and personal experience of the working of Great Compassion, which is called shinjin or true entrusting. What's more, Shin Buddhism does not formally have lay precepts, which can be received from human to human transmission; instead they manifest naturally through the shinjin experience.\n \nThe Affirmation Ceremony allows the participant to publicly acknowledge his/her personal faith experience in the Buddha (Amida), the Dharma (the working of Other Power) and the Sangha (those who entrust themselves to the Other Power). Furthermore, the Affirmation Ceremony may also confirm the Five Precepts as the best ways to compassionately live in our suffering world. Again this is not a transmission of the ethical code but just a reminder of its importance. In addition, the Affirmation Ceremony may include the reciting of the Six Paramitas, the Bodhisattva Vows and the Shin Buddhist Affirmation as reminders of the Buddhist path. In this ceremony, recipients are given a Buddhist name (homyo), an Affirmation Certificate and Shin Buddhist Okesa. There is usually a small donation requested to cover the costs.\n \nIn contrast, the Ordination Ceremony is only conferred by a fully ordained monk, in which the lay participant receives the  human to human or teacher to student, transmission of the Three Jewels and the Five Precepts and sometimes even can take the Bodhisattva Vows. The participant is then ordained as a lay follower or as it is know in sanskrit as an upasaka (ordained lay male follower) or upasika (ordained lay female follower). He/she then receives a certificate and a Buddhist name. As a result, the ordainee is formally initiated as a lay member and linked to a monastic order, in which he/she dedicates him/herself to the Three Jewels and the Five Precepts. The ordaining monk is usually seen as the lay followers main teacher.  These ordained lay followers may then, in the future, decide to intensify their practice and become fully ordained as monks (bhikkus) or nuns. The Ordination Ceremony is conducted by monastic orders only. Since the BFF is a lay congregation, it  does not conduct ordinations. If you are interested in lay ordination please refer to our links page and click on the Hai An Pagoda in New Britain, Connecticut and e-mail the Venerable Thich Tri Hoang.
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hi there, mehereintheeast.  I'm not sure exactly where you can take Chinese classes.  I took some Chinese a few years ago and the way I found a teacher was by going to the campus of a university and asking people who looked Chinese. (Amazingly, every person who I thought was Chinese was actually from China.)\n\nYou answered my question about Guru Rinpoche, and I have a few more questions about it.  Your answer implied that Buddhas are not monks.  Most forms of Buddhism consider Shakyamuni Buddha to have been a monk, and in the Pali texts, he refers to himself that way, as do his disciples.  Is there a different view in the Nyingma school?  In the present case, I am not calling only lamas monks, but all five levels of ordained practitioners as defined by Tibetan Buddhism. Also, is there any record of Padmasambhava having been ordained?  He trained at monasteries in India, but I don't think he was actually ordained.  And finally, have you had any contact with Tibetans, Nyingmapa or otherwise, who feel that his choice to have various female consorts prevents him from maintaining the status of being a monk?  I understand that some people there feel that way.\n\nThanks.
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measure your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.\n\n--dalai lama\n\nthis could go two ways. it could be taken as democrats giving up life in order to have success in medical research, or it could be taken as republicans giving up great advances in medical science in order to have success in advancing their anti-choice agenda.
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Get a self-help book. There are specialists in this sort of thing. Do the exercises. Remember it's your life - don't be scared to participate. And don't be too cruel on yourself; being human is HARD. The Buddhists (for example - not recommendation) have three truths they live by. They call them the noble truths. The First one, the one they have to understand at a deep level before they start to progress 'LIFE IS HARD'\n\nP.S watch the love yourself bit.
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The short answer is no, not all people have the same chance of being saved. I have not been to either Mongolia or Bhutan, but I have close friends who have been there, and I have spent many hours in prayer for the people of those countries. Did you kow that Bhutan charges hundreds of dollars (US) Per Day, just for a Christian to breathe air inside the country? The Bhutanese government has done everything in their power to make it all but impossible for the Gospel to reach the Bhutanese people. As a Christian, this is heartbreaking. As for following the "good way" this link will lead you to my answer on that subject.\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Arza_HnelTHDkKiUL_Ljb2jsy6IX?qid=1006030600650\n\nYou're absolutely right about what place and time a person is born into having a direct effect on whether or not they will have access to the gospel, and have the opportunity to be saved.\nThat is why Jesus told His followers to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every ethnic group on the planet.\nIn the first century AD, the ratio of people who had access to the gospel was about 1:100.\nToday, that ratio is about 1:3-1:5 (This number varies a little depending on what criteria is used to decide what constitutes "access to the gospel".) So, that said, A person born in Bhutan today, has a better chance of hearing the gospel than a person born in the U.S. in the first century AD.\n\nI think the real question you're asking though, is "Does God love the Bhutanese as much as He loves the American?"\nThe answer is YES! There ARE some (very few) Bhutanese who are Christians, and there are some (too few) Christians who are actively trying to reach the Bhutanese with the gospel.\nThe real problem is that there are all too many (especially Western) Christians who are quite simply ignorant of the fact that God loves the Bhutanese as much as God loves them, and/or are not loving their Bhutanese 'neighbor' as much as they love themselves. The fact that Christianity (as a whole) is not doing what Jesus told them to do, does not call God's character into question so much as reveals the fact that we (Christianity as a whole) have not been faithful to emulate God's character in their own lives.\nIf every Christian church in the state of California alone sent ONE member of their congregation to a place that had no access to the Gospel, there would be no place on earth that did not have access to the gospel.\nSo, God is not unjust or unloving - God's people are being disobedient, selfish, and lazy - thus giving God a bad name.
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The selection is made during the life time of the Dalai Lama, decades in advance of his death.