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

This is deliberate and very successful manipulation. The western press is certainly not responsible for
this alone. In that the Tibetan lamas further intensify the egocentricity and the secret wishes of the
celebrity women and guarantee their fulfillment through Buddhism, they bring them under their
control with a similar method (upaya = trick) to that with which they elevate the karma mudras (real
women) to goddesses in their tantric rituals. Who as woman would not reach out for the offers which
are promised them, according to Bunte, by the monks in orange robes: “Buddhism is eternal life. If
one is lucky, eternal youth as well” (Bunte, no. 46, November 6, 1997, p. 22).
In light of the hells, the taboos, the day of judgement, the homelessness, the apocalyptic battle, the
absolute obedience, the unconditional worship of the gurus, the patriarchal authority, the disdain for
women and for life and much more of the like, with which the “true” doctrine is traditionally weighed
down, the temptations offered by Bunte magazine are purely illusory, especially when we consider the
harsh discipline and the strictness which must be borne in the Buddhist lamaseries. Perhaps one of the
most famous Buddha legends has now been reversed: A future Buddha who wishes to attain
enlightenment will no longer be tempted by the “daughters of Mara” (the daughters of the devil),
rather, the “daughters of Mara” (the female stars of Hollywood) who are prepared to step out along
the path to enlightenment are tempted by Buddha (the Dalai Lama). It only remains to hope that they
like the historical Shakyamuni succeed in seeing through the sweet and charming “devil ghost” of the
“sincere” and smiling Kundun.
If we adopt a tantric viewpoint then we may not rule out that all these famous women have in a most
sublime manner been made a part of the worldwide Kalachakra project by the lamas. They form — if
we may exaggerate slightly — a kind of symbolic ganachakra which is supposed to support the
apotheosis of the Dalai Lamas (Avalokiteshvara) into the ADI BUDDHA. With the example of the
pop singer Patty Smith we would like to demonstrate how finely and “cleverly” feminine energies can
be steered by the Kundun in the meantime.
Patty Smith and the Dalai Lama
Already anticonventional to the point of radicalism in her youth, a great fan of the poètes maudits —
Arthur Rimbaud, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs and others, Patty Smith
grew up in the Factory of Andy Warhol, where she learned her “antiauthoritarian” attitude to life.
Anarchist and libertarian, she built a career upon a repertoire which opposed every social norm.
Outside of society is where I want to be is the name of one of her most famous pieces. In the eighties
her spouse and several of her closest friends died suddenly, which affected her deeply. In order to