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The Shadow of the Dalai Lama © Victor und Victoria Trimondi © Victor und Victoria Trimondi THE SHADOW OF THE DALAI LAMA Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism Translated by Mark Penny CONTENTS Critical Links to Buddhism and Lamaism Contents | References | Buddhism Debate | Glossary | Home © Copyright 2003 – Victor & Victoria Trimondi The contents of this page are free for personal and non-commercial use, provided this copyright notice is kept intact. All further rights, including the rights of publication in any form, have to be obtained by written permission from the authors. http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/ [28.3.2008 18:32:10] The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents Victor & Victoria Trimondi CONTENTS Introduction: Light and Shadow Plato’s Cave Realpolitik and politics of symbols Part I - Ritual as Politics 1 - Buddhism and Misogyny (historical overview) The "sacrifice" of Maya: the Buddha legend The meditative dismemberment of women: Hinayana Buddhism The transformation of women into men: Mahayana Buddhism 2 - Tantric Buddhism The explosion of sexus: Vairayana Buddhism Mystic sexual love between the sexes and cosmogonical eros The guru as manipulator of the divine The appropriation of gynergy and androcentric power strategies The absolute power of the "grand sorcerer" (Maha Siddha) 3 - The “Tantric Female Sacrifice" The karma mudra: the real woman The inana mudra: the woman of imagination Karma mudra vs. inana mudra The maha mudra: the inner woman The "Tantric female sacrifice" 4 - The Law of Inversion The twilight language Sexual desire The incest taboo Eating and drinking impure substances Necrophilia Ritual murder Symbol and reality Concurrence with the demonic The aggression of the divine couple Western criticism 5 - Pure Shaktism and Tantric Feminism, and Alchemy http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Contents.htm (1 of 7) [28.3.2008 18:32:32] The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents The gynocentric male sacrifice The vajra and the double-headed ax The dakini Kali as conquered time goddess The "alchemic female sacrifice" 6 - Kalachakra: The Public and the Secret Initiations The seven lower public initiations and their symbolic significance The self-sacrifice of the pupil The lineage tree The divine time machine The four higher "secret" initiations Sperm and menstruation blood as magic substances The “Ganachakra" and the four "highest" initiations 7 - Kalachakra: The Inner Processes The candali: the fire woman The “drop theory” as an expression of androgyny Excursus: The mystic female body The method or the manipulation of the divine 8 - The ADI Buddha: His Mystic Body and his Astral Aspects The “Power of Ten”: The mystic body of the ADI BUDDHA The astral-temporal aspects of the ADI BUDDHA Rahu—the swallower of sun and moon Kalagni and the doomsday mare The myth of eternal recurrence 9 - The ADI Buddha: The Mandala Principle and the World Ruler The Buddhist mandala cosmos The mandala principle The Kalachakra sand mandala The world ruler: The sociopolitical exercise of power by the ADI Buddha Profane and spiritual power 10 - The Aggressive Myth of Shambhala Geography of the kingdom of Shambhala The kings and administration of Shambhala The “raging wheel turner”: The martial ideology of Shambhala Lethal war machines The "final battle" Buddha versus Allah The non-Buddhist origins of the Shambhala myth Evaluation of the Shambhala myth "Inner" and "outer" Shambhala http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Contents.htm (2 of 7) [28.3.2008 18:32:32] The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents 11 - The Manipulator of Erotic Love 12 - Epilogue to Part I Part II - Politics as Ritual Introduction: Politics as Ritual Myth and history The battle of the sexes and history The sacred kingdom Eschatology and politics History and mysticism 1 - The Dalai Lama: Incarnation of the Tibetan Gods Buddha Amitabha: The sun and light deity The various masks of Avalokiteshvara The XIV Dalai Lama as the supreme Kalachakra master Statements of the XIV Dalai Lama on sexuality and sexual magic 2 - The Dalai Lama (Avalokitshvara) and the Demoness (Srinmo) The bondage of the earth goddess Srinmo and the history of the origin of Tibet Why women can’t climb pure crystal mountain Matriarchy in the Land of Snows? The western imagination Women in former Tibetan society The alchemic division of the feminine: The Tibetan goddesses Palden Lhamo and Tara Tara—Tibet’s Madonna The lament of Yeshe Tshogyal The mythological background to the Tibetan-Chinese conflict: Avalokiteshvara and Guanyin Wu Zetian (Guanyin) and Songtsen Gampo (Avalokiteshvara) Ci Xi (Guanyin) and the Thirteenth Dalai Lama (Avalokiteshvara) Jiang Qing (Guanyin) and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Avalokiteshvara) Feminism and Tantric Buddhism The XIV Dalai Lama and the question of women's rights 3 - The Foundations of Tibetan Buddhocracy The history of Buddhist state thought The Dalai Lama and the Buddhist state are one The feigned belief of the XVI Dalai Lama in Western democracy The "Great Fifth" - Absolute Sun Ruler over Tibet Magic as politics - the magic world of the V Dalai Lama The predecessors of the V Dalai Lama The successors of the “Great Fifth”: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas Incarnation and power The "Great Fifth" and the system of incarnation http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Contents.htm (3 of 7) [28.3.2008 18:32:32] The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents The sacred power of the Tibetan kings and it’s conferral upon the Dalai Lamas The XIV Dalai Lama and the question of incarnation The introduction of the doctrine of incarnation in the West The various orders of Tibetan Buddhism (Gelugpa, Kagyüpa, Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, Bön) Unification of the Tibetan Buddhist Order under the Absolute Reign of the XIV Dalai Lama The "Karmapa affair" 4 - Social Reality in Ancient Tibet The Western image of Tibet The social structure of former Tibet Tibetan criminal law Clerical commerce Political intrigue More recent developments in the historical image 5 - Buddhocracy and Anarchy - Contradictory or Complementary? The grand sorcerers (Maha Siddhas) The anarchistic founding father of Tibetan Buddhism: Padmasambhava, From anarchy to discipline of the order: the Tilopa lineage The pre-ordained counter world to the clerical bureaucracy: holy fools An anarchistic erotic: the VI Dalai Lama A tantric history of Tibet Crazy wisdom and the West 6 - Regicide as Lamaism’s Myth of Origin and the Ritual Sacrifice of Tibet Ritual regicide in the history of Tibet The Tibetan "scapegoat" Ritual murder as a current issue among exile Tibetans The ritual sacrifice of Tibet Real violence and one’s own imaginings 7 - The War of the Oracle Gods and the Shugden Affair The Tibetan state oracle Dorje Shugden—a threat to the XIV Dalai Lama’s life? 8 - Magic as a Political Instrument Invocation of demons "Voodoo magic" Magic wonder weapons The “Great Fifth” as magician and the XIV Dalai Lama Mandala politics 9 - The War Gods behind the Mask of Peace The aggressiveness of the Tibetan tutelary gods (Dharmapalas) Gesar of Ling - the Tibetan "Siegfried" The Tibetan warrior kings and the clerical successors http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Contents.htm (4 of 7) [28.3.2008 18:32:32] The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents The Dalai Lamas as the supreme war lords The historical distortion of the "peaceful" Tibetans Is the XIV Dalai Lama the "greatest living prince of peace" Tibetan guerrillas and the CIA Marching music and terror Political calculation and the Buddhist message of peace “Buddha has smiled”: The Dalai Lama and the Indian atomic tests 10 - The Spearhead of the Shambhala War: The Mongols Genghis Khan as a Bodhisattva The Buddhization of Mongolia The Mongolian Shambhala myth Dambijantsan, the bloodthirsty avenging lama Von Ungern Sternberg: The “Order of Buddhist Warriors” The XIV Dalai Lama and Mongolia 11 - The Shambhala Myth and the West The Shambhala missionary Agvan Dorjiev Bolshevik Buddhism The Kalachakra temple in St. Petersburg Madame Blavatsky and the Shambhala myth Nicholas Roerich and the Kalachakra Tantra The “Shambhala Warrior” Chögyam Trungpa Other Western Shambhala visions The XIV Dalai Lama and the Shambhala myth 12 - Fascist Occultism and it’s Close Relationship to Buddhist Tantrism The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s national socialist friends The Nazi–Tibet connection Julius Evola: A fascist Tantric Miguel Serrano: The Dalai Lama’s “friend” and chief ideologist of “esoteric Hitlerism” The former SS-man Heinrich Harrer: teacher of the XIV Dalai Lama Julius Evola: the "Tantric" advisor of Benito Mussolini Miguel Serrano: "friend" of the Dalai Lama and chief ideologist of "esoteric Hitlerism" 13 - The Japanese Doomsday Guru Shoko Asahara and XIV Dalai Lama Shoko Asahara’s relationship to the XIV Dalai Lama The staged Shambhala war The sect’s system of rituals is Tantric Buddhist Asahra’s Gods The Japanese Chakravartin Murder, violence and religion The Japanese Armageddon Religion and chemical laboratories The song of Sarin The international contacts http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Contents.htm (5 of 7) [28.3.2008 18:32:32] The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents The two different brothers 14 - China’s Metaphysical Rivalry with Tibet Mao Zedong: the red sun The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution The “deification” of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong's "Tantric practices" A spiritual rivalry between the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong? The post-Mao era in Tibet A pan-Asian vision of the Kalachakra Tantra Taiwan: a springboard for Tibetan Buddhism and the XIV Dalai Lama? Are the Chinese interested in the Shambhala myth? 15 - The
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