some news is too weird to make up

[quesarah]

From the Ridiculous and Grasping Desk, I bring you the following actual news story:

China is Attempting to Regulate Reincarnation.

Seriously?

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Well sort of. In reality all the Chinese government are doing is insisting they have the power to approve the appointments of Tibet’s two most important monks, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. It's a political move really, the fact they are considered to be reincarnations of "living Buddhas" is sort of irrelevant.