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When Shaky<strong>am</strong>uni died, “the clockwork no longer functioned” (Forte, 1988, p. 259).<br />

[6] In this connection, a text on homosexuality recently published by one of the most intimate of His Holiness’s western<br />

collaborators appears quite bizarre. <strong>The</strong> most recent book by Jeffrey Hopkins, currently Professor of Tibetan Studies at the<br />

University of Virginia, has the title of Sex, Orgasm and the Mind of Clear Light: <strong>The</strong> 64 Arts of Gay Male Sex (Hopkins,<br />

1996). In reading through the text we naturally asked ourselves the question: Can the tantric exchange of energies also take<br />

place between men? Is a female wisdom consort necessary at all for the performance of the sexual magic practices or may it<br />

also be a male consort? <strong>The</strong> book does not offer an answer to this and must therefore, as Hopkins himself stresses, not be<br />

regarded as a tantric text. It is much more a matter of — as he himself puts it — a homosexual K<strong>am</strong>a Sutra, a guide to erotic<br />

<strong>am</strong>usement. Quite a number of lecherous lines are devoted to anal intercourse, which is one of the sexual taboos for His<br />

Holiness. — One text in which homosexual tantric practices are discussed by a guru is <strong>The</strong> Dawn Horse Test<strong>am</strong>ent by Da<br />

Free John, the former spiritual teacher of the American evolutionary theorist, Ken Wilber. <strong>The</strong> author approves of<br />

homosexual rites to a limited degree, but strongly emphasizes that during the sexual magic act strictly one man must play the<br />

masculine role and the other should take the feminine role (Da, 1991, p. 348). One of the men is thus is used in terms of<br />

energy as a substitute woman, which only confirms the fund<strong>am</strong>entally heterosexual orientation of Tantrism.<br />

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2. THE DALAI LAMA (AVALOKITESHVARA)<br />

AND THE DEMONESS (SRINMO)<br />

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