is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha?

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villkorkarma
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is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha?

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is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha???
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Knotty Veneer
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Re: is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha?

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villkorkarma wrote:is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha???
He might be - but how would you or I know?
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
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villkorkarma
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Re: is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha?

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I dont know... by the way, to chooise to bee a bodhisattva is very hard for me to understand... isnt that for u?
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lisehull
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Re: is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha?

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What is a sama sam-buddha?
:namaste:
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Simon E.
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Re: is dalai lama a sama sam-buddha?

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lisehull wrote:What is a sama sam-buddha?
:namaste:
In brief a Buddha who rediscovers the Dharma for a specific era of the world when it has been lost to mankind.
So by that definition, no HH is not a Samasambhuddha.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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