And on another note the legislation to ban the Great Salt Lake from rising has failed, due to the Salt Lake's unconcerned feeling to the approach of the rainy season and it's desire to due it the Nature Way- gregor


China to Tibetan Buddhist monks: no reincarnating without our ok



Snip from Newsweek article:

In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."

Link.(Thanks, Kent!)