Living Buddhas
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Living Buddhas; (huo-Fo): Living Buddha; Refers to rinpoches who represent the power of the Buddha-dharma and who may be reincarnations of previous rinpoches,
but the literal translation of the Chinese term itself is not really valid nor are all huo fos necessarily rinpoches. If there are “living” Buddhas, there must be “dead” Buddhas as well, which is not correct.
It is a term coined during the Qing Dynasty by Empress Dowager Tsu Hsi (1834-1908).
The term "Huo-Fo" is more correctly translated to mean guru or lama.
See; “rinpoche.”