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

In their view, Srinmo represents an archetypal variant of the Mother Earth figure known from all
cultures, whom the Greeks called Gaia (Gaea). As nature and as woman she stands in stark contrast to
the purely spiritual world of Tantric Buddhism. The forces of wilderness, which rebel against
androcentric civilization, are bundled within her. She forms the feminine shadow world in opposition
to the masculine paradise of light of the shining Amitabha and his radiant emanation son,
Avalokiteshvara. Srinmo symbolizes the (historical) prima materia, the matrix, the primordial earthly
substance which is needed in order to construct a tantric monastic empire, then she provides the
gynergy, the feminine élan vitale, with which the Land of Snows pulsates. As the vanquisher of the
earth goddess, Avalokiteshvara triumphs in the form of King Songtsen Gampo, that is, the same
Bodhisattva who, as a monkey, earlier engendered with Srinmo the Tibetans in myth, and who shall
later exercise absolute dominion from the “Roof of the World” as Dalai Lama.
Tibet’s sacred center, the Jokhang (the cathedral of Lhasa), the royal chronicles inform us, thus stands
over the pierced heart of a woman, the earth mother Srinmo. This act of nailing down is repeated at
the construction of every Lamaist shrine, whether temple or monastery and regardless of where the
establishment takes place — in Tibet, India, or the West. Then before the first foundation stone for the
new building is laid, the tantric priests occupy the chosen location and execute the ritual piercing of
the earth mother with their phurbas. Tibet’s holy geography is thus erected upon the maltreated bodies
of mythic women, just as the tantric shrines of India (the shakta pithas) are found on the places where
the dismembered body of the goddess Sati fell to earth.
Srinmo with different Tibetan temples upon her body
In contrast to her Babylonian sister, Tiamat, who was cut to pieces by her great-grandchild, Marduk,
so that outer space was formed by her limbs, Srinmo remains alive following her subjugation and
nailing down. According to the tantric scheme, her gynergy flows as a constant source of life for the
Buddhocratic system. She thus vegetates — half dead, half alive — over centuries in the service of