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