Kritik am Buch „The Shadow Of The Dalai Lama ... - Neues von Shi De

The Dalai Lama with the Kalachakra Mandala as aureole
Strangely enough, the first initiation into the Kalachakra Tantra he performed himself (in 1954) was
in his own words “at the wish of a group of lay women” (Dalai Lama XIV, 1993a, p. 119). We can
only speculate as to whether this euphemistic phrase is used to disguise a ganachakra with eight or
ten karma mudras (real women). Yet this is to be strongly suspected, then how in the Tibet of old
where women did not have the slightest say in religious matters should a “group of lay women” of all
people have come to enjoy the great privilege of motivating the nineteen-year-old hierarch to his first
Kalachakra ceremony? In light of the strict court ceremonial which reigned in the Potala, this was for
those times completely unthinkable, and we must therefore presume that we are dealing with a tactful
reformulation of a tantric ritual involving yoginis.
His Holiness celebrated two further Kalachakra initiations in Lhasa in 1956 and 1957. In 1970 the