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

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various sects into line. In the meantime each of the various schools of Tibetan Buddhism is committed<br />

to the Time Tantra and offers small scale Kalachakra initiations all around the world. On the official<br />

Kalachakra homepage in the Internet (www.kalachakra.com), the following “Dharma masters” are<br />

presented with photos as the most prominent contemporary “WARRIORS” of the time wheel:<br />

1. <strong>Dalai</strong> L<strong>am</strong>a (Gelugpa)<br />

2. Gelek Rinpoche (Gelugpa)<br />

3. Chögy<strong>am</strong> Trungpa (Kagyupa)<br />

4. N<strong>am</strong>khai Norbu (Nyingmapa)<br />

5. J<strong>am</strong>gon Kongtrul (Kagyupa)<br />

6. Minling Terchen Rinpoche (Nyingmapa)<br />

7. Sharmapa Rinpoche (Kagyupa)<br />

8. Tai Situ Rinpoche (Kagyupa)<br />

9. Thrangu Rinpoche (Kagyupa)<br />

10. Tsem Tulku (Gelugpa)<br />

11. Zurman Garwang Rinpoche (Kagyupa)<br />

12. Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (Nyingmapa)<br />

13. Sakya Trizin (Sakyapa)<br />

14. Dzongsar Khyentse (Nyingmapa)<br />

15. Sogyal Rinpoche (Rime Tradition)<br />

16. Tulku Urgyen (Nyingmapa)<br />

17. Gelek Rinpoche (Gelugpa)<br />

18. Kalsang Rinpoche (Kagyupa)<br />

19. Nan Huai Chin (Kagyupa and Chan)<br />

20. Rev Shen Yan (?)<br />

21. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (Bon)<br />

22. Thrinly Norbu Rinpoche (Nyingmapa)<br />

23. Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Kagyupa)<br />

24. L<strong>am</strong>a Choedak (Sakyapa)<br />

25. Ani Choying Drohna (Arya Tara School)<br />

It is immediately apparent from this summary that of the 25 high l<strong>am</strong>as who publicly represent the<br />

Kalachakra Tantra, there is only four Gelugpa masters. This is astounding indeed.<br />

His unique exiled situation allows the fourteenth Kundun to set himself up as the head of all the<br />

schools even more than the “Great Fifth”. This is not just true on the level of practical politics as head<br />

of state, but also in the initiatory system. Hence His Holiness allowed himself to be initiated into all<br />

the significant lineages of the various sects. In 1986 a Nyingmapa teacher initiated him into his<br />

tradition. His Holiness also received a tantric initiation at the hands of the highest master of the<br />

Sakyapa sect. It was a Nyingmapa l<strong>am</strong>a, Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche, who in 1994 presided over the<br />

erection of the first, thirteen-meter high Kalachakra stupa in the West (in Spain).<br />

Traditionally, the Gelugpas were the only ones who had any real influence on the affairs of state —<br />

primarily through the position of the “regents”, who were selected from their ranks and conducted the<br />

business of state until the <strong>Dalai</strong> L<strong>am</strong>as c<strong>am</strong>e of age. In the face of a superior Kundun, the “Yellow<br />

Hats”are now set on the s<strong>am</strong>e level as the other sects. <strong>The</strong>ir privileges have disappeared. „Today the<br />

activities of His Holiness the <strong>Dalai</strong> L<strong>am</strong>a serve the whole world and all of Tibetan Buddhism as well

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