Buddhist Archives

For an atheist, Davies can be a very Anglican atheist. The Doctor regenerating has Buddhist ideas behind it The Doctor dying and being reborn as a completely new person in a new life is consistent with the Buddhist concept of reincarnation This was at least touched upon back in 1974 when a Tibetan abbot who was[...]

The 12th Doctor's story was done in the season finale story "The Doctor Falls" and the Christmas Special is really an extended coda for him. You can look at "Twice Upon a Time" as a Buddhist parable about a man who's already died, wandering Purgatory and coming to terms with his life – meeting his past[...]