Gold Sit Buddha
Posted in Antiques on 05/03/2010 09:26 pm by admin
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Are living buddhas BS?
I saw a "Living Buddha" a year ago at some conference. I believe he was from Taiwan. Anyway, he wore an all gold outfit, sit high upon a golden throne. He seemed really satisfied with his rank and power. He gave a speech and showed off clips of him driving his BMW.
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Am I missing something here? Aren't Buddhists (especially monks) suppose to abandon worldly attachments and desires to seek enlightenment?
The guy even eats meat.
Leave it to Religious people to ignore obvious contradictions in their own dogma and hypocrisy.
You are almost certainly referring to Lu Sheng-yen from Taiwan. He started up his own "True Buddhist" sect in the late 1980s, and does indeed have lots of money and a rolls royce. He also eats meat, drinks alcohol, is married with two children, and there have been allegations of sexual misconduct with a Malaysian woman. (Buddhists can, in theory, eat meat if it has not been killed for eating but rather has died naturally or in an accident; Lu says if the meat was not especially killed for the eater it's OK. So supermarket meat is fine!)
He claims to be a "living Buddha". This is something in the Tibetan tradition of reincarnation and lineage (the Dalai Lama is the most famous example).
The Tibetans are not happy about this. He claimed that the Dalai Lama considers him an authority on Tibetan Buddhism (the Dalai Lama says he doesn't), he claims to have millions of disciples (the Tibetans say he doesn't), and that he is the inheritor of several lineages in Tibetan Buddhism. (Needless to say, they "dispute" this.)
He also claims to have had an audience with 1500 to 2000 lamas on a visit to India in 1996. Indians, Tibetan and Taiwanese sources all say that's nonsense. There are even allegations that he has lectured on magical spells that kill people.
Tibetan monasteries are advised to have nothing to do with him, and I don't think it's fair to consider him a representative of Buddhism. He has more in common with L Ron Hubbard than the Dalai Lama.
There are hypocrites in Buddhism, but I think calling Lu a Buddhist is simply unfair. It's like calling David Koresh a good Catholic.
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