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

The two oracle gods at daggers drawn: Shugden [l] and Nechung [r]
Most probably at the command of the in such matters unscrupulous god-king, the rebel was murdered
first. Whilst the corpse was being burned on a pyre, a threatening cloud which resembled a huge black
hand, the hand of the avenger, was formed by the ascending smoke. After his death the murdered
lama, Drakpa Gyaltsen, transformed into a martial spirit and took on the fearsome name of Dorje
Shugden, which means the “Bellower of the Thunderbolt”. He continued to pursue his political goals
from the beyond.
Shortly after his death — the legend reports — all manner of unhappy incidents befell the country.
Towns and villages were afflicted with sicknesses. The Tibetan government constantly made wrong
decisions, even the Fifth Dalai Lama was not spared. Every time he wanted to have a meal in the
middle of the day, his victim (Dorje Shugden) manifested himself as an invisible evil force, up-ended
the dinner tables and damaged the “ His Holiness’s possessions”. [2] Ultimately it proved possible to
subdue the vengeful spirit through all manner of rituals, but he did not therefore remain inactive.
With the assistance of a human medium, through whom he still today communicates with his priests,
the abbot who had transformed into a protective god organized (from the beyond, so to speak) a
oppositional grouping within the Yellow Hat (Gelugpa) order, who wanted (and still want) to enforce