The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 219 of 254

Tibet became full of tulkus

‘It became like a system that if your teacher is supposed to be a highly realised being then his students would try to find his reincarnation, and Tibet became full of tulkus,’ said Ringu. ‘So some of them may be true reincarnations, some of them maybe not so much, so we don’t know exactly.’

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