Isn't that sort of like Jesus resigning? I mean, that's what Richard Gere would say.

I really must be sleepy today. I read that as "violence committed by Thetans."

I would like to resign from being myself, as the pay and benefits are terrible. Also, I think it would be fun if more abstract concepts started resigning. Like Thanksgiving.

I agree, What the heck Dalai? you were chosen AT BIRTH to be their spiritual leader and now you want to head out? I think you should die for what you believe in. I wouldn''t but you should Mr. Lama.

@TheRightHonourablePrimeMinister: Or, sarcasm.

He would resign from his government-in-exile post, but would remain in his spiritual leader capacity.

@TheRightHonourablePrimeMinister: What's so abstract about giving thanks?

Just heard on Radio Free Tibet:

"God resigns effective today, and Jennifer 8 designs new line of pearl necklaces for Tibetan tourist trade. More news after this brief commercial interruption."

@ILovePuppies: Ha! Now I can't get the image of Cruise opening a Celebrity Centre in Tibet out of my head.

Maybe they meant to use "resign" in the sportswriter sense, as in "Dalai Lama threatens to resign (with the Dodgers, as long as they play him at second base)."

That Ashley Dupre really gets around.

@ILovePuppies: Or "Tetons," as in assaulted by a mountain range.

"And the pain was enough to make a shy bald Buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder."

@Cheap Shot:
I was just about make a "Mr. Lama" reference but I see you beat me to it. Gotta love Bobby Brown.

dalai lama = a lad am I, la!

He can't quit, but he can get dalaid off.

He's been the Dalai Lama since he was six...poor guy just never got to have a normal childhood. While all the other Tibetans were going to the drive-in and playing seven minutes in heaven, he was sitting under a Bodhi tree reading sutras.

@MisterHippity: Or maybe that should be Dalaid off? Dalai'd off?

Shut up and sit down Tibet, or the Dalai's gonna turn the car around and go home.

Dude's just holding out for a better wardrobe allowance.

He's said before he would the last Dalai Lama. From wikipedia:

In the mid-1970s His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, told a Polish newspaper that he thought he would be the last Dalai Lama. In a later interview published in the English language press he stated "The Dalai Lama office was an institution created to benefit others. It is possible that it will soon have outlived its usefulness".[16] These statements caused a furor amongst Tibetans in India. Many could not believe that such an option could even be considered. It was further felt that it was not the Dalai Lama's decision to reincarnate. Rather, they felt that since the Dalai Lama is a national institution it was up to the people of Tibet to decide whether or not the Dalai Lama should reincarnate.[17]

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