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“discipline of history”, which suspects superhuman forces are at work behind politics, they do make<br />

sense. In the following chapter we would like to demonstrate how decisively such an atavistic view<br />

influences the politics of the Fourteenth <strong>Dalai</strong> L<strong>am</strong>a through a consideration of the Tibetan oracle<br />

system and the associated Shugden affair.<br />

Footnotes:<br />

[1] On the other hand, the “sacrificing” of Tibet is l<strong>am</strong>ented on all sides or seven linked to the fate of all<br />

humanity: “If one allows such a spiritual society to be destroyed,” writes the director Martin Scorcese, “we lose<br />

a part of our own soul” (Focus, 46/1997, p. 168).<br />

[2] <strong>The</strong>re is a passage in the Lotus Sutra in which a Bodhisattva burns himself up as a sacrifice for a Buddha.<br />

Next Chapter:<br />

7. THE WAR OF THE ORACLE GODS AND THE SHUGDEN AFFAIR<br />

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