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“These are the dimensions of Hitler, the envoy of the hyperborean [Nordic] siddhas, the tulku, the
Bodhisattva, the Chakravartin, the Führer of the Aryans, so that the demiurge Jehovah has to mobilize
all his earthly and extraterrestrial legions” (Serrano, n.d., p. 50).
One may well dismiss Serrano’s visions as the product of an overactive imagination, but it cannot be
denied that modern fascism has found a home and a predecessor in the Shambhala myth and in
Tantrism. Its mythological conceptions and visions of power can without difficulty be brought into
harmony with the practice and political ideology of the Kalachakra Tantra for all fundamental issues.
The occult right wing’s move toward Tibetan Buddhism is thus in no way to be understood as the
exploitation of the dharma for ignoble purposes, since there is a profound inner relatedness between
these two ways of looking at the world.
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Serrano
Naturally, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama would simply dismiss any link between the Shambhala myth
and Kalachakra Tantra and the “esoteric Hitlerism” of Serrano, regardless of how closely matched
even the conceptual principles of the two systems may be. Nonetheless, it is of great interest to our
culturally critical study that the Kundun met with the racist Chilean several times (in at least 1959,
1984, and 1992). When His Holiness visited Chile in the year 1992, he was greeted at the airport by,
among others, the leader of the National Socialist Party of Chile — Miguel Serrano by name. The
principal ideologue of Esoteric Hitlerism told the reporters present that he and the hierarch from Tibet
had been good “friends” since his time in India (Grunfeld, 1996, p. 302). Serrano was also a friend of
the German living in India whom we have so often cited, Lama Govinda, in whose meditation tower
with a view of the Himalayan mountains he was able to immerse himself.
The first encounter with the Kundun took place in 1959. In his own account, the founder of “esoteric
Hitlerism” was the sole foreigner to greet the Dalai Lama as he crossed the Indian border after his
flight from Tibet. “Shortly before the taking of Tibet by Mao’s troops”, he reports in his own words,
“the Dalai Lama succeeded in fleeing to India. I journeyed into the Himalayas to wait for him there. I
donned Tibetan clothes which the Maharaja of Sikkim had given me so as to attempt to get to Tibet
from there. I made it to the Tibetan border, where — incidentally — I made the acquaintance of one
of Roerich’s sons who also gave me a report of the hidden city lying in the mountains (Shambhala).
The at that time still very young Dalai Lama later, when everything was over, gave me a small
Tibetan dog, as a sign of his gratitude” (Palacio, 1990, p. 4).
It is at any rate interesting that the Kundun, who was introduced to western culture by a member of
the SS (Heinrich Harrer), meets as the first (!) Westerner after his crossing of the Indian border the
fascist Miguel Serrano, who sees a mythic command from the kingdom Shambhala at the esoteric
core of the SS. Serrano says of himself: “I was employed as a tool and continue to be used” (Cedade,
1986). We may recall that upon crossing the border, the Dalai Lama gave vent to the cry of “Victory
to the gods!”. The gods that Serrano represented and as whose tool he served were Wotan, Odin, and,
in his own words, Adolf Hitler.