Letters to the Editor
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Dalai Lama is not a living god
I wish Western writers and journalists would stop refering to the Dalai Lama as a "living god" or as being revered by his people as such. They don't.
As another letter writer responded, he is a bodhisattva. A kind of compassionate being who reincarnates in order to help others.
Furthermore, and perhaps someone can expand on this, Buddhism doesn't have gods so much as it has archetypes. The Dalai Lama (and Buddha) are neither.