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the Japanese guru. If, however, we regard the meeting (with Asahara) from a tantric point of view, we
are forced to conclude that at one of their meetings the Dalai Lama, as the supreme master of the
Time Tantra, initiated the doomsday guru directly into the secrets of his “political mysticism” (the
Shambhala myth). The reports of people who have because of his magical aura experienced an
audience with the Kundun as a kind of initiation are by now legion. Indeed, how could it be otherwise
in the light of an “omnipotent” and “omniscient deity” in the figure of a “simple Tibetan monk”.
Hence, in interpreting the encounter between the two gurus in tantric terms, we have to assume it was
an occult relation between a “god” (the Dalai Lama) and a “demon” (Asahara).
Now, in what does the relationship between these two unequal brothers consist? From a symbolic
point of view the two share the duties laid out in the tantric world view: the one plays the
compassionate Bodhisattva (the Dalai Lama), the other the wrathful Heruka (Asahara); the one the
“mild” Avalokiteshvara who “looks down from above” (the Dalai Lama), the other the god of death
and prince of hell, Yama (Asahara). The anthropologist and psychoanalyst, Robert A. Paul, has been
able to demonstrate with convincing arguments how profoundly this two-facedness of the “good” and
the “evil” Buddha has shaped Tibetan culture. The two Buddha beings (the light and the dark) are
considered to be the counterposed forms of appearance of the one and the same divine substance
which has both a light and a shadowy side. We may recall that Palgyi Dorje wore a white/black coat
when he carried out the ritual murder of King Langdarma.
On this basis then, is Asahara the outwardly projected shadow of the Dalai Lama? His two most
important predecessors also had such “shadow brothers” in whom cruelty and criminality were
concentrated. Under the Fifth Dalai Lama it was the Mongol, Gushri Khan. This counterpart
transformed Tibet into a “sea of boiling blood”. The thirteenth hierarch was accompanied by the
bloodthirsty Kalmyk “Vengeful Lama”, Dambijantsan. Is it really only a coincidence that the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama appeared on the world stage together with the Japanese doomsday guru,
Shoko Asahara?
Footnotes:
[1] The names of the other members of the shadow cabinet aside from Shoko Asahara were Maha Kheema,
Maitreya, Maha Angulimala, Milarepa, Sakula, Kisa Gotami, Punna.mantaniputta Saitama 3 rd , Machig Lapdrön,
Manjushrimitra, Mahakasappa, Kankha-Revata, Marpa, Naropa, Uruvela-kasappa, Siha, Vangisha, Sukka,
Jivaka, Ajita, Tissa, Dharmavajiri, Vajiratissa, Bhaddakapilani, Sanjaya (Bracket, 1996, p. 80).
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