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

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In the center of a outdoor theater the l<strong>am</strong>as have erected a so-called ling<strong>am</strong>. This is an<br />

anthropomorphic representation of an enemy of the faith, in the majority of cases a likeness of King<br />

Langdarma. Substitutes for a human heart, lungs, stomach and entrails are fashioned into the dough<br />

figure and everything is doused in a red blood-like liquid. Austine Waddell claims to have witnessed<br />

on important occasions in Lhasa that real body parts are collected from the Ragyab cemetery with<br />

which to fill the dough figure (Waddell, 1991, p. 527).<br />

Y<strong>am</strong>a – the death god as Ch<strong>am</strong> dancer<br />

Afterwards, the masked figures dance around the ling<strong>am</strong> with wild leaps to the sounds of horns,<br />

cymbals, and drums. <strong>The</strong>n Y<strong>am</strong>a, the bull-headed god of the dead, appears and pierces the heart, the<br />

arms and legs of the figure with his weapon and ties its feet up with a rope. A bell tolls, and Y<strong>am</strong>a

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