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The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Part II – 12. Fascist occultism and it’s close relationship to Buddhist
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12. FASCIST OCCULTISM AND IT’S CLOSE
RELATIONSHIP TO BUDDHIST TANTRISM
Visionary fascism was, and indeed still is, exceptionally deeply fascinated by the Buddhocratic form
of state. In the late thirties (as the various fascist systems bloomed in Europe and the whole world)
Spencer Chapman, a traveler in Tibet, wrote that even in the days of the dictators one can only be
amazed at what uncontested power the Dalai Lama possesses” (Chapman, 1940, p. 192). The idea of
kingship of the world, the uniting of spiritual and secular power in a single person, the ideology of
war in the Shambhala myth, the uncompromisingly andocentric orientation, the tantric vision of the
feminine, the whole occult ambience and much more besides were specifically adopted by several
fascist ideologists and welded together into an aggressive myth. As we shall soon see, entire fascist
systems are based upon the adoption of Tibetan/tantric doctrines.
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s national socialist friends
As depressing as it may be for the Nobel peace prize winner’s followers, there has been continuous
contact between the Dalai Lama and the far right wing and former national socialists (Nazis). His
close friendship with his German mentor, Heinrich Harrer has become the most well-known of these.
It caused a small scandal in 1997-1998 when, after years of research, the Austrian journalist, Gerald
Lehner, succeeded in making public Harrer’s “brown-shirt” (i.e., German fascist) past, which the
latter had been able to keep secret for many years. Harrer is not just anybody. He is one of the bestknown
international authors and has sold over four million books in 57 languages (mostly about Tibet
and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama).
The Austrian mountain climber and competition skier joined the SS on April 1, 1938 and in the same
year received instructions to climb Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas after an official meeting with
Adolf Hitler. Heinrich Himmler, himself most interested in occult phenomena is said by Harrer to
have offered him a Tibet expedition. In 1942, the Reichsführer of the SS (Himmler) ordered the
creation of the Sven Hedin Institut für Innerasienforschung [Sven Hedin Institute for Central Asian
Research]. This educational establishment had combined esoteric, scientific, and racial studies goals.
It was completely in this vein that Himmler was interested in occult doctrines from “mysterious
Tibet”, and assumed — probably under the influence of theosophical ideas — that a “race with
Nordic blood” existed there, oppressed by the English and Chinese, and waiting for their liberation by
the Germans. Himmler’s “advisor”, reports the German magazine Spiegel, “… and the scientist Ernst
Schäfer believed that Tibet was the cradle of humanity, the refuge of an ‘Aryan root race’, where a
priestly caste had created a mysterious kingdom of Shambhala — decorated with the Buddhist symbol
of the wheel of teaching, a swastika. In 1934 Schäfer set out on the first of two expeditions financed
by the SS to track down remnants of the ‘Nordic intellectual’ nobility” (Spiegel, 16/1998, p. 111).
Dr. Ernst Schäfer, a specialist on Tibet and an ornithologist, was one of Himmler’s personal staff and