I'm wanting answers from ALL Buddhists, I don't care what sect (or lack thereof) you belong to?

Question

Do you believe that Tenzin Gyatso (H.H. The Dalai Lama) is the Bodhisattva of Compassion?

Please also state what Sect (or lack thereof) of Buddhism you practice.

Thanks! _()_

Answer 1

Nope

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Answer 2

What if he is ? What if he isn't ?  

Answer 3

I am a Tibetan Buddhist. I practice non Sectarian Rime Buddhsim.

I adore His Holiness. I think he's one of the most compassionate men walking the earth right now. Do I think he's the Buddha of COmpassion? No. Even he himself says he's just a simple monk. And that's how I see him too.

Answer 4

I don't know whether the Dalai Lama being the Bodhisattva of Compassion, when he reaches nirvana.  Only heaven and his master know about the realm he achieved.

I practice Falun Gong.  Not part of Buddhism, Falun Gong is a unique Buddhist School, teaching an ancient practice for the body, mind, and spirit based upon the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. Falun Gong consists of five sets of powerful exercises.

Falun Gong, Tibetans, other Buddhists, and Christians have been persecuted in China. The most offensive human right violation is the organ harvesting from the Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Can you kindly sign a petition to stop persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, please ?

http://cipfg.org/en/news/petition.html  

Answer 5

I do not practice Buddhism any more, but I never really practiced it very strongly in the first place. I was brought up christian and Sikh, I liked the Buddhist values, my childhood friends were from various parts of the world so I  rejected religion on learning the beliefs of my friends families.

I used to think that there was such a thing as reincarnation, an afterlife, a pre-life/many lives, and so revered the dalai lama. he spoke at my school  once, he had done so maybe 40 years previous and so it was his 'return'. The one thing I still like about the speech he gave was that there are many different personalities and therefore there are many religions. I like still his statement because it's an opened armed approach to mankind, unlike most religions(debatable, I'm willing). However I am more weary today to make any such praise of him. I have learned that he has had dealings with the CIA and so am doubtful of his pledge of peaceful protest, I don't blame him as the US surly sees it as an opening into china, after all the world operates via politics, and religion is an extremely strong arm with the (deluded) masses. If you were to ask him of his past lives, he has no recollection. It's simply a manner of pattern seeking, every culture has a slightly varied manner in interpreting the "observed patterns"

So, NO, Tenzin Gyatso (H.H. The Dalai Lama) the Bodhisattva of Compassion, is nothing of the sort. he his nothing because religion is nothing and so therefore he is in fact nothing more then just another individual, amongst a few billion, but, has a fairly tale woven around him... a fairy tail.

Answer 6

No, although I am not a Buddhist, spiritually I'm 90% daoist, 10% Zen Buddhism, which technically makes me a villain in a Kung Fu movie.  The Daoist guy is ALWAYS the bad guy.  My reasons?

I once saw Kannon in a dream; she's an unimaginably beautiful Indian princess, or at least that is what she was before she became enlightened.  I do not believe its the Dalai Lama, because I have seen her myself.

Answer 7

Theravada Buddhists don't believe in the existence of any boddhisatvas of compassion. Guanyin/Kannon/Avalokiteshvara is non-existent according to Theravadins. The concept of bodhisattvahood is completely different in Mahayana-Vajrayana vis-a-vis Theravada.