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inextinguishable. The history of nonviolent resistance is one of the greatest, there is, and in it Kundun
[the film] is a kind of prelude. The actual film, which we are waiting for, may soon begin: if an
apparently impregnable, billion-strong market is infiltrated by the power of a symbol [the Dalai
Lama] whose evidence it is unable to resist for long. If this film is ever made, it will not be shown in
the cinemas, but rather on CNN” (Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 17, 1998). Kniebe and many others
thus await a Lamaization of the whole Chinese territory.
A wild speculation? David Germano, Professor of Tibetan Studies in Virginia, ascertained on his
travels in Tibet that “The Chinese fascination with Tibetan Buddhism is particularly important, and I
have personally witnessed extremes of personal devotion and financial support by Han Chinese to
both monastic and lay Tibetan religious figures [i.e., lamas] within the People's Republic of
China” (Goldstein, 1998, p. 86).
Such a perspective is expressed most clearly in a posting to an Internet discussion forum from April 8,
1998: “"Easy, HHDL [His Holiness the Dalai Lama]", it says, “can turn the people of Taiwan and
China [into] becoming conformists of Tibetan Buddhism. Soon or later, there will be the Confederate
Republics of Greater Asia. Republic of Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Republic of Tibet,
Mongolia Democratic Republic, Eastern Turkestan Republic, Inner Mongolian Republic, Nippon,
Korea ... all will be parts of the CROGA. Dalai Lama will be the head of the CROGA” (Brigitte,
Newsgroup 10).
But whether the Kundun returns home to the roof of the world or not, his aggressive Kalachakra
ideology is not a topic for analysis and criticism in the West, where religion and politics are cleanly
and neatly separated from one another. The despotic idea of a world ruler, the coming Armageddon,
the world war between Buddhism and Islam, the establishment of a monastic dictatorship, the
hegemony of the Tibetan gods over the planets, the development of a pan-Asian, Lamaist majorpower
politics — all visions which are laid out in the Kundun’s system and magically consolidated
through every Kalachakra initiation — are simply not perceived by politicians from Europe and
America. They let the wool be pulled over their eyes by the god-king’s professions of democracy and
peace. How and by what means His Holiness seeks to culturally conquer the West is what we want to
examine in the next chapter.
Footnotes:
[1] This is probably an invented historia sacra, as contemporary documents found in the library of Tunhuang do
not say a word about the teaching of the Buddha being the state religion of the time. In the sources, the latter
first emerges 150 years later under Trisong Detsen. It is also clear that Songtsen Gampo did not just marry two
women, but rather five, from various neighboring states in order to bind these to himself and his dynasty.
[2] This sympathy of the Manchus for the Lamaist teachings was the sole reason why the Buddhist and yet very
militant Mongolians remained peaceful for so long and bowed to the Chinese dominance. Shortly before its
declaration of independence (in 1911), nobles and high lamas from the country sent a petition to the Russian
Tsar, in which among other things it said: “Earlier, we respectfully subjected ourselves to the Manchu Khan
because they fostered the Buddhist religion and spread the blessings” (Onon, 1989, p. 10).
[3] It has been adequately proven that the human rights violations exercised out by the Chinese forces of
occupation between 1953 and the present day were significant. Monks were beaten, tortured, taken away, and
executed, Nuns and girls were violated. During the rebellions villages were bombed and mass executions were
carried out. The many and varied methods of torture included skinning alive. The scenes were terrible and are
documented in numerous places (see for example, Joseph Campbell, 1973, pp. 509ff.). It is thus not in any way
our intention to gloss over or hush up the attacks by the Chinese soldiery. All forms of killing and torture, but