The Discourse of Lama

The Discourse of Lama (Chinese: 喇嘛說[1]) is an article written by the Qianlong Emperor in the 57th year of the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty (1792) to elaborate on the policy (Article One of The 29-Article Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet) of using lot-drawing process with Golden Urn to pick reincarnated lamas including the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama.

He explained why he thought it would be a fair system of choosing them, as opposed to choosing reincarnated lamas based on private designation, or based on one person's decision.

[2] Also, it's to eliminate greedy family with multiple reincarnated rinpoches, lamas.

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