Dalai Lama plans to quit as Tibet political leader
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7290UK20110310
Dalai Lama plans to quit as Tibet political leader
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7290UK20110310
SEE: http://www.npr.org/2015/01/04/374857829/a-pastor-moves-past-his-attraction-to-men-and-so-does-his-wife?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150111&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews
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I guess there aren't too many places on earth where the church and the state are ruled from the same office. Iran, perhaps.
It marks a triumph for the reformation/enlightenment idea that faith is a personal practice, but statehood is a societal one. Societal life and order, in this view, may be informed by religious ideals are not subjugated to religious doctrine. How we do this rightly is the subject of ongoing discussion.