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

extension and expansion of its grotesque pandemonium, which afflicted the country across the
centuries. There was no temple in which these monsters were not (and still are) prayed to. In the
gloomy gokhang, the chamber or hall where their cult worship took (and still takes) place, hung (and
still hang) their black thangkas, surrounded by an arsenal of bizarre weapons, masks and stuffed
animals. Dried human organs were discovered there, the tanned skin of enemies and the bones of
children. Earlier western visitors experienced this realm of shadows as a “chaotic, contradictory world
like the images formed in a delirium” (Sierksma, 1966, p. 166).
There are dreadful rumors about the obscure rituals which were performed in the “horror
chambers” (Austin Waddell), and not without reason, then human flesh, blood, and other bodily
substances were considered the most effective sacrificial offerings with which to appease the terror
gods. If this flow of bloody food for the demons ever dries up, then according to Tibetan prophecies
they fall upon innocent people, indeed even upon lamas so as to still their vampire-like thirst
(Hermanns, 1956, p. 198).