http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/buddhism/and_AI.html
DALAI LAMA: Yes, that's right. [DALAI LAMA laughs.] There is a possibility that a scientist who is very much involved his whole life [with computers], then the next life... [he would be reborn in a computer], same process! [Laughter.] Then this machine which is half-human and half-machine has been reincarnated.
http://books.google.com/books/about/Gentle_Bridges.html?id=99HWNQAACAAJ