{"id":19414,"date":"2013-02-25T00:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=19414"},"modified":"2013-02-25T00:23:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:23:27","slug":"the-oscars-the-conclave-and-the-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=19414","title":{"rendered":"The Oscars, the Conclave and the Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; more on the upcoming papal election from a &#8220;comparative&#8221; perspective ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, I noodle around with parallelisms and oppositions quite a bit.  Here are two recent pairings that caught my attenion &#8212; one of them just in time for the Oscars:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-popes-and-oscars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-popes-and-oscars.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC popes and oscars\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-popes-and-oscars.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-popes-and-oscars-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other concerns political influence on spiritual appointments&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-conclave-and-tulkus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-conclave-and-tulkus.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC conclave and tulkus\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-conclave-and-tulkus.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SPEC-conclave-and-tulkus-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had the good fortune to meet and befriend a &#8220;tulku&#8221; while I was at Oxford, so the whole business of  the identification and recognition of reincarnated Tibetan lamas has long been an interest of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; more on the upcoming papal election from a &#8220;comparative&#8221; perspective ] . As you know, I noodle around with parallelisms and oppositions quite a bit. Here are two recent pairings that caught my attenion &#8212; one of them just in time for the Oscars: The other concerns political influence on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[672,701,649,526,144,497,415,67,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedict-xvi","category-buddhism","category-buddhist","category-charles-cameron","category-china","category-christianity","category-elections","category-movies","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19414"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19427,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions\/19427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}