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

Smoke streams from your nose,
Pillars of fire follow you.
Hurriedly you collect clouds from the firmament,
The rumble of thunder pierces
through the ten regions of the world.
A dreadful rain of meteors
and huge hailstones hurtles down,
And the Earth is flooded in fire and water.
Devilish birds and owls whir around,
Black birds with yellow beaks float past,
one after another.
The circle of Mnemo goddesses spins,
The war hordes of the demons throng
And the steeds of the tsen spirits race galloping away.
When you are happy,
then the ocean beats against the sky.
If rage fills you, then the sun and moon fall,
If you laugh, the world mountain collapses into dust ....
You and your companions
Defeat all who would harm the Buddhist teaching,
And who try to disrupt the life of the monastic community.
Wound all those of evil intent,
And especially protect our monastery,
this holy place ....
You should not wait years and months,
drink now the warm heart’s blood of the enemies,
and exterminate them in the blink of an eye.
(Nebesky-Wojkowitz, 1955, 34)
In our presentation of the tantric ritual we showed how the terror goddesses or dakinis, whatever form
they may assume, must be brought under control by the yogi. Once subjugated, they serve the
patriarchal monastic state as the destroyers of enemies. Hence, to repeat, the vajra master is — when
he encounters the dark mother — not interested in transforming her aggression, but rather much more
in setting her to work as a deadly weapon against attackers and non-Buddhists. In the final instance,
however — the tantras teach us- the feminine has no independent existence, even when appears in its
wrathful form. In this respect Palden Lhamo is nothing more than one of the many masks of
Avalokiteshvara, or — hence -of the Dalai Lama himself.
We know of an astonishing parallel to this from the kingdom of the pharaohs. The ancient Egyptians
personified the wrath of the male king as a female figure. This was known as Sachmet, the flaming
goddess of justice with the face of a lioness (Assmann, 1991, p. 89). Since the rulers were also
obliged to reign with leniency as well as justly wrath, Sachmet had a softer sister, the cat goddess
Bastet. This goddess was also a characteristic of the king pictured in female form. Correspondingly, in
Tibetan Buddhism the mild sister of the Palden Lhamo is the divine Tara.
Even if the dreadful demoness is in the final instance an imagining of the Dalai, this does not mean
that this projection cannot become independent and one day tear herself free of him, assume her own