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© Victor & Victoria Trimondi
The
Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction: Light and Shadow
Plato’s
Cave
Realpolitik and politics of symbols
Part I - Ritual as Politics
1 - Buddhism and
Misogyny (historical overview)
The
"sacrifice" of Maya: the Buddha legend
The
meditative dismemberment of women: Hinayana
Buddhism
The
transformation of women into men: Mahayana Buddhism
2 - Tantric
Buddhism
The
explosion of sexus: Vairayana
Buddhism
Mystic
sexual love between the sexes and cosmogonical eros
The
guru as manipulator of the divine
The
appropriation of gynergy and androcentric
power strategies
The
absolute power of the "grand sorcerer" (Maha
Siddha)
3 - The “Tantric
Female Sacrifice"
The
karma mudra: the real woman
The
inana mudra: the woman
of imagination
Karma mudra
vs. inana mudra
The
maha mudra: the inner
woman
The
"Tantric female sacrifice"
4 - The Law of
Inversion
The twilight language
Sexual desire
The incest taboo
Eating and drinking impure substances
Necrophilia
Ritual murder
Symbol and reality
Concurrence
with the demonic
The aggression of the divine couple
Western criticism
5 - Pure Shaktism and Tantric Feminism, and Alchemy
The gynocentric
male sacrifice
The vajra and the
double-headed ax
The dakini
Kali as conquered time goddess
The "alchemic female sacrifice"
6 - Kalachakra: The Public and the Secret Initiations
The
seven lower public initiations and their symbolic significance
The self-sacrifice of the pupil
The lineage tree
The divine time machine
The
four higher "secret" initiations
Sperm
and menstruation blood as magic substances
The
“Ganachakra" and the four
"highest" initiations
7 - Kalachakra: The Inner Processes
The candali:
the fire woman
The “drop theory” as an expression of
androgyny
Excursus: The mystic female body
The
method or the manipulation of the divine
8 - The ADI Buddha: His Mystic Body and his Astral
Aspects
The “Power of Ten”: The mystic body of
the ADI BUDDHA
The
astral-temporal aspects of the ADI BUDDHA
Rahu—the swallower of sun and moon
Kalagni and the doomsday mare
The myth of eternal recurrence
9 - The ADI Buddha: The Mandala Principle and the World Ruler
The Buddhist mandala
cosmos
The
mandala principle
The Kalachakra
sand mandala
The world ruler: The sociopolitical
exercise of power by the ADI Buddha
Profane and spiritual power
10 - The
Aggressive Myth of Shambhala
Geography of the kingdom of Shambhala
The
kings and administration of Shambhala
The “raging wheel turner”: The martial
ideology of Shambhala
Lethal
war machines
The
"final battle"
Buddha
versus Allah
The
non-Buddhist origins of the Shambhala myth
Evaluation of the Shambhala
myth
"Inner"
and "outer" Shambhala
11 - The
Manipulator of Erotic Love
12 - Epilogue to
Part I
Part II - Politics as Ritual
Introduction: Politics as Ritual
Myth and history
The battle of the sexes and history
The sacred kingdom
Eschatology and politics
History and mysticism
1 - The Dalai
Lama: Incarnation of the Tibetan Gods
Buddha Amitabha: The sun
and light deity
The
various masks of Avalokiteshvara
The
XIV Dalai Lama as the supreme Kalachakra master
Statements
of the XIV Dalai Lama on sexuality and sexual magic
2 - The Dalai
Lama (Avalokitshvara) and the Demoness
(Srinmo)
The bondage of the earth goddess Srinmo and
the history of the origin of Tibet
Why women can’t climb pure crystal mountain
Matriarchy in the Land of Snows?
The western imagination
Women in former Tibetan society
The alchemic division of the feminine: The Tibetan
goddesses Palden Lhamo
and Tara
Tara—Tibet’s Madonna
The lament of Yeshe Tshogyal
The mythological background to the
Tibetan-Chinese conflict: Avalokiteshvara and Guanyin
Wu Zetian (Guanyin) and Songtsen Gampo (Avalokiteshvara)
Ci Xi (Guanyin)
and the Thirteenth Dalai Lama (Avalokiteshvara)
Jiang Qing (Guanyin)
and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Avalokiteshvara)
Feminism and Tantric Buddhism
The XIV Dalai Lama and the question of
women's rights
3 - The
Foundations of Tibetan Buddhocracy
The history of Buddhist state thought
The
Dalai Lama and the Buddhist state are one
The
feigned belief of the XVI Dalai Lama in Western democracy
The
"Great Fifth" - Absolute Sun Ruler over Tibet
Magic
as politics - the magic world of the V Dalai Lama
The
predecessors of the V Dalai Lama
The successors of the “Great Fifth”:
The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas
Incarnation
and power
The
"Great Fifth" and the system of incarnation
The sacred power of the Tibetan kings and it’s
conferral upon the Dalai Lamas
The
XIV Dalai Lama and the question of incarnation
The
introduction of the doctrine of incarnation in the West
The various orders of Tibetan Buddhism (Gelugpa, Kagyüpa,
Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, Bön)
Unification
of the Tibetan Buddhist Order under the Absolute Reign of the XIV Dalai
Lama
The
"Karmapa affair"
4 - Social
Reality in Ancient Tibet
The
Western image of Tibet
The social structure of former Tibet
Tibetan
criminal law
Clerical
commerce
Political
intrigue
More recent developments in the
historical image
5 - Buddhocracy
and Anarchy - Contradictory or Complementary?
The
grand sorcerers (Maha Siddhas)
The
anarchistic founding father of Tibetan Buddhism: Padmasambhava,
From
anarchy to discipline of the order: the Tilopa
lineage
The
pre-ordained counter world to the clerical bureaucracy: holy fools
An
anarchistic erotic: the VI Dalai Lama
A tantric history of Tibet
Crazy wisdom
and the West
6 - Regicide as Lamaism’s Myth of Origin and the Ritual
Sacrifice of Tibet
Ritual
regicide in the history of Tibet
The
Tibetan "scapegoat"
Ritual
murder as a current issue among exile Tibetans
The
ritual sacrifice of Tibet
Real violence and one’s
own imaginings
7 - The War of
the Oracle Gods and the Shugden Affair
The
Tibetan state oracle
Dorje Shugden—a threat to the
XIV Dalai Lama’s life?
8 - Magic as a
Political Instrument
Invocation of demons
"Voodoo
magic"
Magic
wonder weapons
The “Great Fifth” as magician and the
XIV Dalai Lama
Mandala politics
9 - The War Gods
behind the Mask of Peace
The
aggressiveness of the Tibetan tutelary gods (Dharmapalas)
Gesar of Ling - the Tibetan
"Siegfried"
The
Tibetan warrior kings and the clerical successors
The
Dalai Lamas as the supreme war lords
The
historical distortion of the "peaceful" Tibetans
Is
the XIV Dalai Lama the "greatest living prince of peace"
Tibetan
guerrillas and the CIA
Marching music and terror
Political calculation and the Buddhist message of
peace
“Buddha has smiled”: The Dalai Lama and the Indian
atomic tests
10 - The
Spearhead of the Shambhala War: The Mongols
Genghis
Khan as a Bodhisattva
The Buddhization of Mongolia
The
Mongolian Shambhala myth
Dambijantsan, the bloodthirsty avenging lama
Von Ungern Sternberg:
The “Order of Buddhist Warriors”
The
XIV Dalai Lama and Mongolia
11 - The Shambhala Myth and the West
The Shambhala missionary
Agvan Dorjiev
Bolshevik
Buddhism
The
Kalachakra temple in St. Petersburg
Madame
Blavatsky and the Shambhala myth
Nicholas
Roerich and the Kalachakra Tantra
The
“Shambhala Warrior” Chögyam
Trungpa
Other
Western Shambhala
visions
The
XIV Dalai Lama and the Shambhala myth
12 - Fascist Occultism and it’s Close Relationship to
Buddhist Tantrism
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s national socialist
friends
The Nazi–Tibet connection
Julius Evola: A fascist
Tantric
Miguel Serrano: The Dalai Lama’s “friend” and
chief ideologist of “esoteric Hitlerism”
The
former SS-man Heinrich Harrer: teacher of the XIV
Dalai Lama
Julius
Evola: the "Tantric" advisor of Benito
Mussolini
Miguel
Serrano: "friend" of the Dalai Lama and chief ideologist of
"esoteric Hitlerism"
13 - The Japanese Doomsday Guru Shoko Asahara
and XIV Dalai Lama
Shoko
Asahara’s relationship to the XIV Dalai Lama
The
staged Shambhala war
The sect’s system of rituals is Tantric Buddhist
Asahra’s Gods
The Japanese Chakravartin
Murder,
violence and religion
The
Japanese Armageddon
Religion
and chemical laboratories
The
song of Sarin
The international contacts
The two different brothers
14 - China’s Metaphysical Rivalry with Tibet
Mao
Zedong: the red sun
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
The “deification” of Mao Zedong
Mao
Zedong's "Tantric practices"
A spiritual rivalry between the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong?
The
post-Mao era in Tibet
A
pan-Asian vision of the Kalachakra Tantra
Taiwan: a springboard for Tibetan Buddhism and the XIV Dalai Lama?
Are
the Chinese interested in the Shambhala myth?
15 - The Buddhocratic Conquest of the West
Robert A. Thurman: “The academic godfather of the
Tibetan cause”
The stolen revolution
Thurman’s forged history
A worldwide Buddhocracy
Tibet a land of enlightenment?
Thurman as “high priest” of the Kalachakra Tantra
16 - Tactics, Strategies, Forgeries, Illusions
The
"Tibet
lobby"
The
manipulation of the "Greens"
The illusory world of interreligious
dialog and the ecumenical movement
Modern
science and Tantric Buddhism
Buddhist cosmogony and the postmodern
world view
The
yogi as computer
Hollywood and Tantric Buddhism
17 - Conclusion
The
atavistic pattern of Tibetan Buddhism
Clash of Religions:
the fundamentalistic contribution of Lamaism
Return to rationalism?
Postscript: Creative Polarity beyond Tantrism
References
Annex: Critical
Forum Kalachakra Tantra
Glossary
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