President Medvedev is a Buddhist goddess

Source: Telegraph UK




His 'divinity' became apparent during a visit to a monastery in eastern Siberia
President Medvedev of Russia was hailed as a goddess during an official visit to a Buddhist monastery in eastern Siberia.

During the first trip in 16 years to the remote Ivolginsky monastery in Buryatia by a head of state, he was shown a statue of the White Tara, a seven-eyed, female figure in the Buddhist pantheon, whose embodiment he is believed to be, it was reported.

The spiritual leader of the monastery, Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheyev, said when asked about the president’s spiritual significance: “It’s very hard to understand this for non-Buddhists and even for some Buddhists too.”

Speaking to the Interfax news agency, he added: “The leader of the country is a man who bears very serious responsibility for others. The Buddhists must support him, identifying him as a deity.”

White Tara is the mother of all Buddhas and is thought to embody compassion, long life, healing and serenity. She is also known as “the wish-fulfilling wheel”.

Russia’s Buddhists, of whom there are between 700,000 and a million constituting less than one per cent of the population, consider the country’s leaders to be an emanation of the female Buddha. This belief dates back to the 18th century, when the Empress Elizabeth officially recognised the religion..cont'd


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Yea...I see the resemblance. It's in the eyes.
And as we learned from Bush, those Russian presidents are a soulful bunch...

When I started posting at DU, they took away my card.

:cry:

But I'm still a better fisherman.

really that sad.

since he maintained absolutely that he himself was an ordinary human, denied the existence of any sky-fairy gods & even negated the existence of individual souls - it is pretty ironic that the govt. sanctioned Buddhist sects of godless Russia are worshiping a pantheon of non-existent Buddhist deities, with the goddesses personified as their neo-communist leaders.

this must, indeed, be the advent of the Kali Yugaya - the age of chaos & reversing-polarities - when Marxists become "Buddhist" theists & "Christians" become preemptive war-mongers.

me: barfs ...

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