Certainly the association between the DL and Aum was a matter of the heart. It has been written about long ago in western and japanese literature. People who close their minds to this fact should definitely go and read what the DL had to say about Mr.Asahara. It has nothing to do with "chinese character assassination".
The DL has always surrounded himself with these kinds of dubious characters from mass murder cults, already the Nazis liked the Tibetan clerics because of this.
Yes, I consider the DL a greedy, uneducated powermonger who doesn't care a bit about his people and uses them cynically to restore a rightfully gone theocracy.
No, I don't like the Chinese govt. I like the chinese culture which has developed its own type of tolerant and enlightened Buddhism over the course of one and a half millenia.
Yes, I'm a European and what I know about buddhism is mostly from the Theravada tradition. I also consider the various Zen sects as dangerous frauds with a power/military agenda. Tibetan buddhism is an especially superstitious sect with a totalitarian structure and a lot of dark secrets.
If anything, the irrational reactions by DL groupies prove what I said. It's one of these moments when I tell myself, this is how rational people must have felt in the middle ages, when religious mobs were the rule not the exception.
Well I didn't expect this emotional reaction, I thought a progressive blog should be having some rational people. Sorry to hurt anyone's feelings, but this has more to do with yourself than anything else. Certainly the association between the DL and Aum was a matter of the heart. It has been written about long ago in western and japanese literature. People who close their minds to this fact should definitely go and read what the DL had to say about Mr.Asahara. It has nothing to do with "chinese character assassination". The DL has always surrounded himself with these kinds of dubious characters from mass murder cults, already the Nazis liked the Tibetan clerics because of this.
From now on, the Japanese guru referred to himself as a pupil of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. The god-king's final version of affairs is different. He never commissioned the Japanese to do anything at all, nor established any special relation with him, and definitely did not take him on as a sadhaka. For him Asahara was just one of the many hundreds of worshippers and visitors whom he met with in the course of a year.
To be honest, my impression of this is that Shoko Asahara was a self-aggrandizing megalomaniac who met the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and possibly Tokyo as part of another religious group, before elevating himself to the category of guru and founding his own sect, and that Asahara used the fact that he met the Dalai Lama as a way to gain credibility. If also appears that Aum Shinryko has donated to the Tibetan Government in Exile, quite likely also as a way to gain even more credibility with buddhists in Japan and abroad. It'd be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that — François in Paris
Eh, no. The Nazis had some silly belief that the Tibetans are aryans and their use of the swastika means some connection; but when they sent an expedition there, they got 'disillusioned' seeing Tibetan religiousity, un-warrior-ness, and body size... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The Nazis had some silly belief that the Tibetans are aryans....
Bet that expedition turned out to be quite a surprise. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I also consider the various Zen sects as dangerous frauds with a power/military agenda.
Which would make them differents from other religions...how exactly? Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I thought a progressive blog should be having some rational people
The rational people on this progressive blog rationally like assertions to be backed up with evidence.
Not subjective/emotive stuff like "I consider", "I don't like", "what I know about", "I tell myself", with no substance to back any of it up.
