The 5th living Buddha Dezhub Jambai Gaisanggyaco died in Lhasa on March 11, 2000 at the age of 66.
Losang Doje was born on Nov. 30, 2005 in Lhunze County of Shannan Prefecture. His father is Gaesang Wangdue and his mother Pema Lacong.
He was chosen as one of the candidates after several years of searching efforts by senior monks according to religious practices and traditions.
The boy would become the sixth Living Buddha Dezhub after the approval of the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Buddha lived at a time of great philosophical creativity in India when many conceptions of the nature of life and death were proposed.
Buddha is a word in the very old Indian languages Pali and Sanskrit which means "Enlightened one". The word "Buddha" often means the historical Buddha named Buddha Shakyamuni (Siddhartha Gautama), but "Buddha" does not mean just one man who lived at a certain time. It is used for a type of person, the equivalent of a prophet, and there have been many. There were Buddhas a very long time ago, and there will be for a long time in the future.
A Buddha is a human being who has woken up and can see the true way the world works. This knowledge totally changes the person.
Some say this puts them beyond birth, death, and rebirth. Others think this represents the final extinction of desire. This person can help others become enlightened too.
Some say that there was no existence that the self is annihilated upon death.
Others believed in a form of cyclic existence, where a being is born, lives, dies and then is re-born, but in the context of a type of determinism or fatalism in which karma played no role.
Buddhists often talk about the Three Jewels, which are the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. The Dharma is the way the Buddha taught to live your life. The Sangha is the group of monks and other people who meet together, like a congregation.
Buddhists say "I take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha". This means that these three things keep them safe. They give themselves up to the community and teachings inspired by the Buddha.
The Buddha's first and most important teachings are the Four Noble Truths.
1. Everything in life is painful. Nothing in life is ever good enough and what is good does not last forever.
2. The reason for this pain is our desires, anger and ignorance. We want more and more, so we feel pain. We feel pain even when we get what we want - because one day we will surely lose it. We feel pain through our anger and hatred and we are led into painful situations through our ignorance.
3. There is hope. There is a way to end pain.
4. The way to end pain is to follow the Noble Eightfold Path.
They follow five precepts:
1. I will not hurt a person or animal that is alive.
2. I will not take something if it was not given to me.
3. I will not have sex in a way that is harmful.
4. I will not lie or say things that hurt people.
5. I will not take intoxicants, like alcohol or drugs.
The Buddha's concept was distinct, consistent with the common notion of a sequence of lives over a very long time but constrained by two core concepts: that there is no irreducible self tying these lives together (anatta) and that all compounded things are subject to dissolution, including all the components of the human person and personality (anicca).
The story of the Buddha's life presented in the early texts does not allude to the idea of rebirth prior to his enlightenment, leading some to suggest that he discovered it for himself.
The Buddha's detailed conception of the connections between action (karma), rebirth and causality is set out in the twelve links of dependent origination.
Another view describes the cycle of death and birth in the context of consciousness rather than the birth and death of the body.
Buddhist meditation teachers suggest that observation reveals consciousness as a sequence of conscious moments rather than a continuity of awareness.
Each moment is an experience of an individual mind-state such as a thought, a memory, a feeling or a perception.
A mind-state arises, exists and, being impermanent, ceases, following which the next mind-state arises. Thus the consciousness of a sentient being can be seen as a continuous series of birth and death of these mind-states.
Rebirth is the persistence of this process.
Sami Cherkaoui
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