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Tibetan Buddhists may face a future of duelling Dalai Lamas: one born in exile who will receive traditional religious training, the other a mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama.
We’ve spent ages learning about the people who think they’ve come from another planet, so you don’t have to.
A professor of religion and science explains different views on immortality, from the religious perspective of President Jimmy Carter to the scientific, secular take of Carl Sagan.
For Tibetan Buddhists it is important that they are in charge of the selection process for the next dalai lama, but China wants to appoint its own.
Many Australians believe in the existence of the soul. Here is a brief guide to how the five major world religions imagine the soul’s origin and journey.
Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage that started earlier this month in India, has survived wars and famine since its origin. But the biggest threat has been the spread of illness – back then as now.
Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and one of the most recognizable faces of Buddhism, the Dalai Lama has turned 84 and the question of a successor is pressing – and controversial.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College
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Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies, Emerson College
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Professor Emeritus and Lecturer in Religion and Science, Florida International University
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Lecturer In Buddhism Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Senior lecturer in Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Faculty Associate, PhD Candidate in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Arizona State University