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The Dalai Lama and Shoko Asahara
But Asahara was not a complete nobody for the god-king. According to the German magazine, Stern,
they had met five times since 1987 (Stern 36/95, p. 126). Amazingly, weeks after the first poison gas
attack, His Holiness still called the guru a “friend, although not necessarily a perfect one” (Stern
36/95, p. 126). Then a document from 1989 came to light in which the Kundun thanked the AUM sect
for donations and confirmed that they “encouraged public awareness through religious and social
activities” (Focus 38/95, p. 114). On January 21, 1989 Asahara had sent the sum of $100,000 to
Dharamsala for the assistance of Tibetan refugees. As a kind of service in return he received an
official note from the Council for religious and cultural affairs of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in
which one can read: “To the best of our knowledge, AUM attempts to promote public well-being
through various religious and social activities, for example through instruction in Buddhist doctrines
and yoga” (Focus 38/95, p. 116–117).
On February 8, Asahara wrote back: “It is my fervent wish that Tibet will return to the hands of the
Tibetans in the near future. I am willing to do whatever I can to be of help” (Shimatsu, I). The
Japanese guru’s gratitude is only too easy to understand, then with the aforementioned note in his