who is the pope of buddhist faith?

Answer 1

There isn't one.

Answer 2

Buddhism isn't like Catholicism. There is no ultimate leader.

Throughout Western history, there have been many leaders who claimed to have been personally appointed by God. (Many leaders were considered "divine" themselves---gods who had taken human form. Talk about a con job!) The Catholic pope doesn't make such outrageous claims; however, the understanding has always been that the pope is somehow personally selected by God, acting through the Church's elite politicians.

In Buddhism, even the Buddha himself is mostly just a symbol. The idea is that everyone has the entire universe within them (even physicists now agree this is true!), and that with patience, trust, and quiet concentration, anyone can directly realize this.

The experience is quite an awesome thing. Naturally, it changes your life quite a bit. It changes what you think is important. When you see everyone and everything as expressions of one universe, you stop worrying about having lots of stuff, impressing people, and so on. You feel tremendously impressed and grateful to be experiencing life itself. You tend to view all of our stress, worry, and preoccupation with material things as the humorous expressions of a limitless universe having fun with itself.

You also come to understand that everyone is just doing the best they can---and that the judgments we tend to make are just habits of the values and personalities we ended up having for reasons beyond our own comprehension.

Unlike followers of most other religions, Buddhists don't claim that their religion is "the only way", but that it is just one path to a common understanding. When Jesus said "The kingdom of God is within you", he referred to this same understanding: the knowledge that everything (everything!) is a single energy that's acting in different ways to take on different forms---that it's all an incredible miracle. (Again, I'm talking actual physics here, not just spiritual guessing.)

None of us has any idea why we are who we are. It's just the will of the universe. Considering that the universe can be anything it wants to, it obviously feels that what we're doing now is more interesting than sitting around being a Big Blob of Everything (boring!!).

To get back to your question: Any religion is an organization, and organizations need leaders to make them work. The leader of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Dalai Lama, is a very wise and compassionate man who travel the world with messages of peace, tolerance, and love. These aren't just his opinions; they're based on his direct experience of the true nature of our world (as described above). He's just talking about what he's directly experienced to be true.

Buddhist traditions in other countries have other leaders, and those traditions use different customs---music, books, ways of dressing, and so on---that correspond with the histories of their cultures. It's all about the same basic ideas, so the cultural diversity is fun. (If the universe didn't care about diversity and creativity, there'd be only one kind of tree, one kind of bird, etc., right?)

But Buddhist leaders know, as much as anyone does, how silly it'd be to encourage people to worship or idolize them. That would be contrary to the whole point---of realizing that each of us is a miracle, a unique expression of the universe's creativity, down to each whirling atom.

There you go.

Cheers, ander

Answer 3

The Nichiren Daishonen was the founder, and the current President of the Sokka Gakki International, the parent organization of Buddhism worldwide is Disaku Ikeda.

While President Ikeda is revered and is call Sensei (teacher), Buddhists don't have a "pope" or anyone who fills that position. Buddhism is not a religion...is a practice and a lifestyle.

Answer 4

There is no "pope" of the Buddhist faith. But the leader of the Tibetan Buddhists is the Dalai Lama.

Answer 5

There isn't any pope in the Buddhist faith. There is only one Pope and he is a Catholic that lives in Rome.

Answer 6

The word "Pope" refers to the leader of the Catholics only. The leaders of other religions have their own tittle and many of them don´t have a supreme leader like the Pope.
Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is the supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, and the leaders of all four schools of Buddhism consider the Dalai Lama to be the highest lama of the Tibetan traditions.
Actually, this position officially belongs to the Ganden Tripa.

Answer 7

The dalai lama. Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama to be one of innumerable incarnations of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, a being who is dedicated to assissting all beings in achieving complete Buddhahood (enlightenment, or in this case, complete compassion).

Answer 8

The High Abbot cuz hes not a pope

Answer 9

That would be the Dilah Lama... he is not called the pope. The pope is the leader of the Roman Catholics.

Answer 10

2 points

Answer 11

His Holiness Dahlia Llama .Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th llama