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Sexual scandals of Lamas and Rinpoches

über die Dalai Lamas

Before Buddhism was brought to Tibet, the Tibetans had their believes in "Bon". "Bon" is a kind of folk beliefs which gives offerings to ghosts and gods and receives their blessing. It belongs to local folk beliefs.

In the Chinese Tang Dynasty, the Tibetan King Songtsän Gampo brought “Buddhism” to the Tibetan people which became the state religion. The so-called “Buddhism” is Tantric Buddhism which spreads out during the final period of Indian Buddhism. The Tantric Buddhism is also named "left hand tantra" because of its tantric sexual practices. In order to suit Tibetan manners and customs, the tantric Buddhism was mixed with "Bon". Due to its beliefs of ghosts and sexual practices, it became more excessive.

The tantric Master Atiśa spread out the tantric sex teachings in private. Padmasambhava taught it in public, so that the Tibetan Buddhism stands not only apart from Buddhist teachings, but also from Buddhist form. Thus, the Tibetan Buddhism does not belong to Buddhism, and has to be renamed "Lamaism".

   
                   MeToo:Memoir on my Second Actual Sexual Relationship with the Karmapa

Memoir on the Second Actual Sexual Relationship with Karmapa

 
 
Here, I would like to explain causes, process and the impacts of the second sexual relationship with the Karmapa. First of all, I will describe the remote causes and the proximate causes of the second sexual relationship with Karmapa.

1- Remote Causes

1-1- Karmapa Commanded Me to Go to USA
For many years, as soon as the Karmapa commanded, I would follow his commands. Similarly, on May 17, 2018, Karmapa sent a Skype message “Come on”, which meant that he commanded me to go to the United States. On May 25, 2018, when I just arrived at JFK Airport in New York, I sent messages to the Karmapa. He said that “the third gift” had not given to me. His words were surprisingly opposite to his previous words. In his messages, Karmapa also explained the reasons why I don’t need to give birth to a child for him. I have asked Karmapa to keep the antique coral rosary in good condition, and not to give it to other girls, and I repeatedly denoted that I wanted to get back the old coral rosary, just like he wants to get back the black crown, because that was a token of the previous love between us.

1-2-Karmapa Banned Me from Conducting a Retreat
On May 25, 2018, Karmapa and I made a 7-minute telephone conversation via Skype. Karmapa asked me, “Where are you?” I replied: “I am at the Aloft Harlem Hotel.” Karmapa said: “If you tell me earlier, I can arrange a hotel room for you.” I responded, “You can arrange my room for my whole lifetime.” As soon as he heard these words, he unpleasantly hung up. After that, two weeks were gone, and Karmapa has had no messages sent to me, so I was wondering if I should arrange my own studies, practice or retreat.

On June 11, 2018, I asked Karmapa through the Line app. asking the Karmapa to allow me to go for a three-year and three-month traditional retreat expressing my hope that Karmapa would be able to help me out for the application for doing a retreat in a monastery. However, at 12:20 PM on June 12, 2018, Karmapa replied: “Do what! Three-year and three-month retreat?” Then I was very confused because Guru asked me to go to the United States, but I have been in the United States for almost three weeks yet there were no any arrangements for a Dharma work, or any guidance and arrangements for my Dharma practice. I had nothing to do so I spent my time all day long guessing what the meanings of his words, i.e. “I haven’t given you the third gift yet”.

1-3-Karmapa Gave Me Money to stay in USA
Originally, with my return ticket I returned to Hong Kong on June 15, 2018. But in the evening of June 14, 2018, he sent messages to let me go to Flushing’s Niu Pot for dinner at 7:00 in the evening. The Karmapa urged me to go to the restaurant very early. I knew at the time that I was not eating with him alone. In that case, I went with my Ani friend, Ani Sonam, and a layperson friend, Karen. My friend and I were the first to go to the restaurant. The Karmapa sent a voice message to LINE: “Tell them that you are sent by the King.” We waited for the King to come. The King has not yet arrived, and some young girls have already sat down. The first comer was a beauty from Harbin, China, who looked like Faye Wong. She was called the Karma Fayuan and was invited to go to eat by the King. She sat down and continued to use her phone. The other person who has appeared on the King’s list of friends of Skype was a beautiful girl with big eyes. Soon, my layperson friend has arrived.

The King arrived. The fat bodyguard did not like me and he wanted me to leave. The King originally pointed to a far distant table and told me to go over there with my two friends. He said, “You sit there. Forget it! Forget it!” Finally, we did not move from our seats. Then, the King arranged the seats of those women. The King placed Karma Fayuan next to him, and another girl in his Skype friends’ list, Jing Zhang, was sitting opposite the King. My two friends and I sat down at the table next to the King. We were eating vegetarian hotpot dishes. I saw those women’s seats were exchanged again and again. They were called by the King to sit next to him one by one and whispered in the ear, and laughed loudly. Even, I saw Karma Fayuan was arranged by the King to sit in seat of the King. At that time, the Karmapa wore a brown sports long-sleeved jacket, without wearing a shawl. I went to bathroom, and then went back to my seat. The King told me to sit next to him.

It was my turn to walk over to his seat from my seat. All the women were looking at me. He gestured with his hand for me to bring my ears closer. He whispered softly in my right ear: “Why are you going back so quickly?” He let me get closer to whisper and I felt sorry and said, “Because there is no money.” He suddenly said loudly: “(If you) have no money, then tell me.” Then handed the three red packets into me. That was the total of more than two thousand US dollars.

Then, Karmapa took away the new coral rosary from my wrist to his hands for fun and said, “Is this my rosary?” He wanted to confiscate my rosary into his right hand pocket, and I took the rosary back. I asked him where my old coral rosary was, and he claimed that he has sent it to his mother. I asked if it was his mother in this life, he said yes. Then he whispered in my ear and said, “You find a place to live for a while, then I will arrange a place for you, then I will teach you phowa, and then tomorrow, maybe you will die.” Speaking of “Tomorrow, maybe you will die,” he spoke very loudly, then everyone laughed and I returned to my seat. My friends went up one by one and sat down to talk to the King. After eating, the King returned to his place. Everyone went out with the King. I didn’t look back and continued to eat. The next day, I have not returned to Hong Kong and waited for the summoning of the King in New York.

1-4- Karmapa Touched my Thigh at Dinner
On the evening of June 29, 2018, at the Franchia Vegan Cafe, he let me sit next to him and eat. There were three lay people on the opposite side, one of them is the lady called Rabbit. I heard that in the American Kagyu Monlam Prayers Gathering, the King let her sit nearby and he touched her ear in public. I recognized that the opposite of the King is lady Rabbit.

He said: “For present-day people, sangha members are lay people; lay people are sangha members.” Then, under the table, he placed his left hand on the knees and my right thigh rubbing and patting. He covered his left hand with his red shawl, and then continued to touch and caress. At the same time, he has been continuously talking nonsense. He touched it all night, patting, and said something nonsense, “You are my disaster,” etc. Since I arrived late, he ordered for me a big bowl of rice, and I was really hungry at that time. When the meal came, he helped me mix the rice with both hands, and said “Dear”, and then he let me eat. When he left the restaurant, he said, “I will arrange a hotel room for you tomorrow. There will be a big living room there.” So I went back to my place to pick up my stuffs.

1-5-I was Fooled and Confused
On June 29, 2018, I packed up the stuffs in an early time, and I put those Tibetan scriptures into the luggage, so the luggage became very heavy. I put things into the baggage as if I was going to follow him for my whole life. There was no messages from him whole morning. I have expected him until 10pm when he gave me via Skype the hotel information, i.e., the Dominick Hotel. Then I took my bulky luggage and went to the hotel. My Ani friend accompanied me while I was going there by Uber. At the time, Ani said that King and I would “take two doses”. I told Ani that that was not possible, because that time he was going to let me stay with him for a long time.

I have been sitting in the hotel lobby and no one was there until 12 o’clock in the evening. But the King has texted me to wait in the lobby, so I continued to wait. Almost until 1am in the morning, the King’s assistant Jacke Rosa appeared. He took me to the room (Room 1411) and handed me the door card. But I didn’t know why there was a problem with a room key card. When I arrived at the room, I was very tired and wanted to sleep. Then he called via Skype. He said that he had arranged a card for my room and a card for his room enclosed to me. I asked: “Really? Why don’t you tell me early?” He asked, “Is there any other clothes? Is there any casual clothes?” I said, “If you told me early in the morning, I would have. Where to find it now? I really want to sleep.” He suddenly said, “I don’t welcome you now.” At that moment, my emotions were blackmailed again.

I thought I could follow him in the future and stay with him for a long time. But it seemed that was not the case. I knew in my heart what he wanted from me. I was very depressed. However, my wish is to follow him, often by his side. Why didn’t he arrange me to be with him? I began to suspect that his only purpose that he told me to come to the United States was for his sexual needs. But I was not for that reason. I reflected on what I was looking for when I met him in India from the beginning time. Since he has been a monk, I also went to be a nun, and I learned Tibetan continuously for years. My hope was to work around him and spend my life together to benefit others with pure dharma instead of having a one-night stand with him. I was very upset. He arranged in that way and blamed me for not doing well. Ani later told me that I was too slow. If I were a laywoman, I would fly to his room and get it done. Ani added that he didn’t get what he wanted, and I gave him lemons to eat, so he was angry and after all he was king. My Ani friend could see through the King very clearly, but it was I who was confused.

Actually, I really hesitated because I was not prepared to give him sexual services. I thought I would follow him forever and work by his side. I only have Buddhist scriptures in my suitcase, and some Tibetan Dharma books. I didn’t bring with me any one piece of what he so-called “casual clothes”, and I have left them in Flushing. So I decided that the next day not to go back taking the clothes back to the hotel.

On June 30, 2018, the next day, he told me to wait for him at the hotel lobby at 6 o’clock in the evening, to bring his room card to him. I have already gone to the lobby before 6 pm, but after waiting for half an hour, my stomach was not well. I went back to my room because of diarrhea. I felt very weak, probably because I haven’t had lunch. I was very tired and lying on bed. His messages came again, saying that he had already left the lobby, and asked me where I was. Then, he told me to insert his door card inside a book and take it to the ninth floor and return the room card to him. I said that I didn’t want to return his card because I want to keep it as a memento. So, I did not meet him. In the evening, I ordered a dish of spaghetti and I gained a little strength. I didn’t know if he wants sex or permanent love. I was disappointed and I didn’t type to him again. Until 12:12AM, he sent a message saying that his sister began to suspect me, against me, and said that it was the best for me to go back to Hong Kong. I believed in his words and decided to go back to Hong Kong with Ani. He personally arranged me two nights of hotel accommodation but I haven’t meet his desires well, so he was angry and wanted me to leave the United States.

As a result, as soon as I received his message of commanding me to get back to Hong Kong in the very early morning of July 1, 2018, I left the hotel at two o’clock in the middle of the night because I felt that the hotel was not safe. In that way, I lived in the hotel room he arranged for two days, but I did not see him. In the afternoon of July 1, 2018, on the same day, he ordered me to delete his entire Skype contact, threatening me saying, “Otherwise I will not see you from now on.” He wanted me to delete his Skype and texted “Hurry up.” After Skype was deleted, we only used LINE apps for communication.

1-6- Karmapa Blamed on Me
On July 3, 2018, via the LINE apps, he blamed me for not entering the room at the Dominick Hotel and got it done well. He said, “That night…you haven’t well…I mean…. because you should move faster, you can’t hesitate. I said a word, you were still asking this and that, and then, if something else happens in the middle, what to do, so I give up.”

1-7-King Punished and Degraded Me
In the evening of July 3, 2018, I asked to see him, because Ani and I confirmed the ticket to go back on the 4th. At first, Karmapa used various excuses to say that he was in a place where he lived and it was not convenient to see me there. I was not allowed to go to his house. It turned out that he had three girls in his house. Later, when I went to his house, I discovered that he had cooked together with lady Rabbit, the low-cut hot pants girl and the tall young girl in the kitchen. He handed me a bottle of non-alcoholic beverage, and I drank it, sitting in his beauty kitchen like a drunkard.

He let me go there to meet him because I said that I wanted to go back to Hong Kong. He also said “It’s not convenient to see you”, “How come so late”, “The place where you live is far away from here,” “It’s too late now,” “It’s very strange to be so late.” It turned out that he was actually cooking with three beautiful women. He had no arrangement to meet me. Instead, he blamed me for not telling him in an early time. In fact, I told him two days before that day that I would fly back to Hong Kong on the 4th.

When I was eating in his beauty kitchen, the King came over and snatched my new coral rosary by his both hands! I couldn’t believe that he would take away what he has given to me? ! He commanded me to leave quickly. He had to cook with other women in the kitchen. Karmapa accompanied Ani and I to the gate and saw us off. When we arrived at the gate, he saw my empty hands and he gave me an amethyst rosary, a mirror, and a singing bowl. Giving me the amethyst rosary, Karmapa said: “An ordinary rosary.”

After receiving the gift, I held and pinched his hand. After that, I got into a car and went back to the hotel. At that time, I was awakened that the words “I hope I will always be with you”, that he has said to me on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2012, when he held his palms together in front of the computer screen, was fake. That night, I haven’t slept all night, and my mind was only thinking about the past things between he and me. I was heartbroken. He only wants me to die. He, whom I devote to, has betrayed me; he, whom I rely on, has given up on me. I realized that he has carried out a series of mental abuses against me. I also realized that the Dharma King who was venerated by thousands of people was such an ordinary human!

Demanding for dying was my only wish at the time. That night, I was lying on the floor of the hotel bathroom, letting the water sprinkle on my body. Later, I decided to live. So I decided not to return to Hong Kong and stayed alone in America.

2-Proximate Causes

2-1-I Apologized for my Mistake and Asked for Another Chance
According to the Tibetan Buddhist doctrines, I knew that I should completely let go of my attachment, that I should “depend on the Guru” and “practice what the teacher likes”, so I decided to admit my mistake and asked the Karmapa for forgiveness. At the same time, I asked the Karmapa to give me another chance.

On July 5, 2018, I asked the Karmapa to forgive my “disobedience”, “hesitation” and “prolixity” and asked him to give me the opportunity to correct my mistakes. The following is the LINE dialogue between Karmapa and me on July 5, 2018.

Thu, 2018/7/5 
Me: Are you at the lake house?
Me: Hotel? Can you give me a chance?
Karmapa: (Voice message 0:26”) I can give you a chance, but the problem is that you must listen to me, and you can’t hesitate, then you must not be naggy, you must do right away what I want you do, otherwise, how can I rest easy?
Me: I know.
Me: I won’t talk. I’ll listen to you.
Me: I’ll act once I heard.
Me: I won’t hesitate.
Me: I will try to improve.
Me: Sorry, I was born like this, but I will change it. Please give me a chance.
(Karmapa called me and talked 17:47”)
Me: I can come to your hotel.
Me: in a high speed. Others won’t see.
Me: I can. ⋯⋯


2-2- Karmapa Commanded Me Not to Wear Nun’s Robes
Since last time Karmapa said to me “I don’t welcome (you)” as I didn’t have casual clothes with me, I learned to improve myself that time and I had to be prepared beforehand, so I asked him if I had to wear casual clothing and if I need buy a condom. Karmapa clearly instructed me: “Don’t wear nun’s clothes,” and ”no” need buy a condom. The following is the LINE dialogue between Karmapa and me on July 6, 2018 and July 8,2018.

Fri, 2018/7/6
Me: Do I wear Ani’s clothes to go, like last time. Is there another plan? ⋯⋯
Karmapa: Don’t wear nun's robe 
Me: I know
Karmapa: Where to live, think a solution

Sun, 2018/7/8
Me: Is there anything to buy? For example, a condom? It should be no longer needed, because my menstruation is coming. I will not get pregnant. Forget it
Karmapa: No
Karmapa: very expensive


3- Process

3-1- Karmapa Made Zero Witnesses
At 9:52PM on July 8, 2018, Karmapa let me book a hotel room in the Mark hotel in Manhattan, New York, and rebuked me for not “doing well” with the good opportunity last time when he booked the room of the Dominick Hotel for me. For the present time, he would not book the hotel room for me again. In addition, he said via LINE: “If I book the room, people around me will know that you are in the hotel.” At 9:52PM on July 8, 2018, I booked the room and Karmapa made me stay in “my own room”. He commanded, “Don’t come out,” and he let me wait until 3AM in the morning. At that time, I discovered that the Karmapa has been active over nights.

3-2-Karmapa Commanded me to Take Key in Lobby
On July 9, 2018, Karmapa first placed his room key under one of the orange cushions on a single sofa chair in the lobby, and then he sent me message through the Line soft apps at 1:40AM to command me to go down to the lobby to take his room key. Then I went back to my room and waited until 3:01AM in the morning. He sent a message “Go up,” and told me to go to his room, Room 1202. Outside his room, there was an empty chair. At that time, there were nobodies sitting outside his room to guard the door.

3-3- Karmapa Commanded Me to Hide in Closet
He commanded me to get into his room, hide into the room closet and wait for him to be back the hotel room. 3:12AM in the morning, he returned to his room. At 3:13AM, I came out from the hotel room closet. We sat on the couch in the living room of his room for a while. There were only two of us in the room. The front of the couch in the living room was a big TV screen. The TV has been kept turning on, yet not turning off. The two of us were wearing casual clothes sitting on the couch. He sat on my left. My head has been leaning on the shoulder of his right hand for approximately 1 minute while I was looking at the glowing TV screen. There should have been a bodyguard outside the door at that time. He should not have known that I was in the room.

3-4- Karmapa Had Sex With No Condom
Then he took me from the living room to the bedroom, and told me to take off my clothes, and he also stripped himself. I took off clothes and left the last piece, the underwear, and he helped me take that piece off. First, he let me lie down. I saw him spit on his right hand fingers, then he rubbed his penis with his saliva before inserting, and then we had a second actual sex on bed. In the process of sexual intercourse, he has not worn a condom, and after sex, I helped him with a full body massage. During the massage, he said that I was fat and pointed out that there was fats on my belly and said, “You have three layers. I only have two layers (of fats).” After the massage he went to take a shower. I watched him take a shower. He told me to take the towel to him by saying out only a word: “Towel.” As he suddenly turned into English, I didn’t know what he was talking about at that time. He then said towel again in Chinese.

3-5- I Was Commanded to Kneel Down After Sex
The time was almost up. After we got dressed, he commanded me to kneel down and listen to him instructing me how to leave, but in the end he took away the bodyguard outside the door. Before he left the room, he commanded me to hide in the closet again. I suddenly had a nosebleed in the closet. Fortunately, I had some tissue paper with me. Then, the Karmapa sent a message “(You) can go” at 4:28AM in the morning and told me to leave the room. After receiving the message, I immediately left his room and returned to my room.

4-Impact
After the second sexual intercourse with Karmapa, our relationship continued to be entangled, because of the physical intimacy. Karmapa continued to confuse the relationship between us, and therefore it led to the third sexual relationship in the future.

The backgrounds, situation and impacts of the second actual sexual relationship with Karmapa are recounted completely.
 
 
The Second Memoir on Karmapa's Abuse (karmaparapesbydeception.blogspot.com)
 
 

 
 

Die Dalai Lamas

»Die Dalai Lamas werden von ihren Anhängern als fortgeschrittene Mahayana Bodhisattvas angesehen, mitfühlende Wesen, die sozusagen ihren eigenen Eintritt in das Nirvana zurückgestellt haben, um der leidenden Menschheit zu helfen. Sie sind demnach auf einem guten Wege zur Buddhaschaft, sie entwickeln Perfektion in ihrer Weisheit und ihrem Mitgefühl zum Wohle aller Wesen. Dies rechtertigt, in Form einer Doktrin, die soziopolitische Mitwirkung der Dalai Lamas, als Ausdruck des mitfühlenden Wunsches eines Bodhisattvas, anderen zu helfen.«

?Hier sollten wir zwei Dinge feststellen, die der Dalai Lama nicht ist: Erstens, er ist nicht in einem einfachen Sinne ein ?Gott-König?. Er mag eine Art König sein, aber er ist kein Gott für den Buddhismus. Zweitens, ist der Dalai Lama nicht das ?Oberhaupt des Tibetischen Buddhismus? als Ganzes. Es gibt zahlreiche Traditionen im Buddhismus. Manche haben ein Oberhaupt benannt, andere nicht. Auch innerhalb Tibets gibt es mehrere Traditionen. Das Oberhaupt der Geluk Tradition ist der Abt des Ganden Klosters, als Nachfolger von Tsong kha pa, dem Begründer der Geluk Tradition im vierzehnten/fünfzehnten Jahrhundert.«

Paul Williams, »Dalai Lama«, in
Clarke, P. B., Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements
(New York: Routledge, 2006), S. 136.

Regierungsverantwortung
der Dalai Lamas

?Nur wenige der 14 Dalai Lamas regierten Tibet und wenn, dann meist nur für einige wenige Jahre.?

(Brauen 2005:6)

»In der Realität dürften insgesamt kaum mehr als fünfundvierzig Jahre der uneingeschränkten Regierungsgewalt der Dalai Lamas zusammenkommen. Die Dalai Lamas sechs und neun bis zwölf regierten gar nicht, die letzten vier, weil keiner von ihnen das regierungsfähige Alter erreichte. Der siebte Dalai Lama regierte uneingeschränkt nur drei Jahre und der achte überhaupt nur widerwillig und auch das phasenweise nicht allein. Lediglich der fünfte und der dreizehnte Dalai Lama können eine nennenswerte Regieruagsbeteiligung oder Alleinregierung vorweisen. Zwischen 1750 und 1950 gab es nur achtunddreißig Jahre, in denen kein Regent regierte!«

Jan-Ulrich Sobisch,
Lamakratie - Das Scheitern einer Regierungsform (PDF), S. 182,
Universität Hamburg

Der Fünfte Dalai Lama,
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso

Der Fünfte Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso

?Der fünfte Dalai Lama, der in der tibetischen Geschichte einfach ?Der Gro?e Fünfte? genannt wird, ist bekannt als der Führer, dem es 1642 gelang, Tibet nach einem grausamen Bürgerkrieg zu vereinigen. Die ?ra des fünften Dalai Lama (in etwa von seiner Einsetzung als Herrscher von Tibet bis zum Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, als seiner Regierung die Kontrolle über das Land zu entgleiten begann) gilt als pr?gender Zeitabschnitt bei der Herausbildung einer nationalen tibetischen Identit?t - eine Identit?t, die sich im Wesentlichen auf den Dalai Lama, den Potala-Palast der Dalai Lamas und die heiligen Tempel von Lhasa stützt. In dieser Zeit wandelte sich der Dalai Lama von einer Reinkarnation unter vielen, wie sie mit den verschiedenen buddhistischen Schulen assoziiert waren, zum wichtigsten Beschützer seines Landes. So bemerkte 1646 ein Schriftsteller, dass dank der guten Werke des fünften Dalai Lama ganz Tibet jetzt ?unter dem wohlwollenden Schutz eines wei?en Sonnenschirms zentriert? sei; und 1698 konstatierte ein anderer Schriftsteller, die Regierung des Dalai Lama diene dem Wohl Tibets ganz so wie ein Bodhisattva - der heilige Held des Mahayana Buddhismus - dem Wohl der gesamten Menschheit diene.?

Kurtis R. Schaeffer, »Der Fünfte Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso«, in
DIE DALAI LAMAS: Tibets Reinkarnation des Bodhisattva Avalokite?vara,
ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers,
Martin Brauen (Hrsg.), 2005, S. 65

Der Fünfte Dalai Lama:
Beurteilungen seiner Herrschaft I

?Gem?? der meisten Quellen war der [5.] Dalai Lama nach den Ma?st?ben seiner Zeit ein recht toleranter und gütiger Herrscher.?

Paul Williams, »Dalai Lama«, in
(Clarke, 2006, S. 136)

?Rückblickend erscheint Lobsang Gyatso, der ?Gro?e Fünfte?, dem Betrachter als überragende, allerdings auch als widersprüchliche Gestalt.?

Karl-Heinz Golzio / Pietro Bandini,
»Die vierzehn Wiedergeburten des Dalai Lama«,
O.W. Barth Verlag, 1997, S. 118

»Einmal an der Macht, zeigte er den anderen Schulen gegenüber beträchtliche Großzügigkeit. […] Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso wird von den Tibetern der ›Große Fünfte‹ genannt, und ohne jeden Zweifel war er ein ungewöhnlich kluger, willensstarker und doch gleichzeitig großmütiger Herrscher.«

Per Kvaerne, »Aufstieg und Untergang einer klösterlichen Tradition«, in:
Berchert, Heinz; Gombrich, Richard (Hrsg.):
»Der Buddhismus. Geschichte und Gegenwart«,
München 2000, S. 320

Der Fünfte Dalai Lama:
Beurteilungen seiner Herrschaft II

?Viele Tibeter gedenken insbesondere des V. Dalai Lama bis heute mit tiefer Ehrfurcht, die nicht allein religi?s, sondern mehr noch patriotisch begründet ist: Durch gro?es diplomatisches Geschick, allerdings auch durch nicht immer skrupul?sen Einsatz machtpolitischer und selbst milit?rischer Mittel gelang es Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso, dem ?Gro?en Fünften?, Tibet nach Jahrhunderten des Niedergangs wieder zu einen und in den Rang einer bedeutenden Regionalmacht zurückzuführen. Als erster Dalai Lama wurde er auch zum weltlichen Herrscher Tibets proklamiert. Unter seiner ?gide errang der Gelugpa-Orden endgültig die Vorherrschaft über die rivalisierenden lamaistischen Schulen, die teilweise durch blutigen Bürgerkrieg und inquisitorische Verfolgung unterworfen oder au?er Landes getrieben wurden.

Jedoch kehrte der Dalai Lama in seiner zweiten Lebenshälfte, nach Festigung seiner Macht und des tibetischen Staates, zu einer Politik der Mäßigung und Toleranz zurück, die seinem Charakter eher entsprach als die drastischen Maßnahmen, durch die er zur Herrschaft gelangte. Denn Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso war nicht nur ein Machtpolitiker und überragender Staatsmann, sondern ebenso ein spiritueller Meister mit ausgeprägter Neigung zu tantrischer Magie und lebhaftem Interesse auch an den Lehren andere lamaistischer Orden. Zeitlebens empfing er, wie die meisten seiner Vorgänger, gebieterische Gesichte, die er gegen Ende seines Lebens in seinen ›Geheimen Visionen‹ niederlegte.«

(Golzio, Bandini 1997: 95)

Der Dreizehnte Dalai Lama,
Thubten Gyatso

Der Dreizehnte Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso

?Ein anderer, besonders wichtiger Dalai Lama war der Dreizehnte (1876-1933). Als starker Herrscher versuchte er, im Allgemeinen ohne Erfolg, Tibet zu modernisieren. ?Der gro?e Dreizehnte? nutzte den Vorteil des schwindenden Einflusses China im 1911 beginnenden Kollaps dessen Monarchie, um faktisch der vollst?ndigen nationalen Unabh?ngigkeit Tibets von China Geltung zu verschaffen. Ein Fakt, den die Tibeter von jeher als Tatsache erachtet haben.?

Paul Williams, »Dalai Lama«, in
(Clarke, 2006, S. 137)

?Manche m?gen sich vielleicht fragen, wie die Herrschaft des Dalai Lama im Vergleich mit europ?ischen oder amerikanischen Regierungschefs einzusch?tzen ist. Doch ein solcher Vergleich w?re nicht gerecht, es sei denn, man geht mehrere hundert Jahre in der europ?ischen Geschichte zurück, als Europa sich in demselben Zustand feudaler Herrschaft befand, wie es in Tibet heutzutage der Fall ist. Ganz sicher w?ren die Tibeter nicht glücklich, wenn sie auf dieselbe Art regiert würden wie die Menschen in England; und man kann wahrscheinlich zu Recht behaupten, dass sie im Gro?en und Ganzen glücklicher sind als die V?lker Europas oder Amerikas unter ihren Regierungen. Mit der Zeit werden gro?e Ver?nderungen kommen; aber wenn sie nicht langsam vonstatten gehen und die Menschen nicht bereit sind, sich anzupassen, dann werden sie gro?e Unzufriedenheit verursachen. Unterdessen l?uft die allgemeine Verwaltung Tibets in geordneteren Bahnen als die Verwaltung Chinas; der tibetische Lebensstandard ist h?her als der chinesische oder indische; und der Status der Frauen ist in Tibet besser als in beiden genannten L?ndern.?

Sir Charles Bell, »Der Große Dreizehnte:
Das unbekannte Leben des XIII. Dalai Lama von Tibet«,
Bastei Lübbe, 2005, S. 546

Der Dreizehnte Dalai Lama:
Beurteilungen seiner Herrschaft

?War der Dalai Lama im Gro?en und Ganzen ein guter Herrscher? Dies k?nnen wir mit Sicherheit bejahen, auf der geistlichen ebenso wie auf der weltlichen Seite. Was erstere betrifft, so hatte er die komplizierte Struktur des tibetischen Buddhismus schon als kleiner Junge mit ungeheurem Eifer studiert und eine au?ergew?hnliche Gelehrsamkeit erreicht. Er verlangte eine strengere Befolgung der m?nchischen Regeln, veranlasste die M?nche, ihren Studien weiter nachzugehen, bek?mpfte die Gier, Faulheit und Korruption unter ihnen und verminderte ihren Einfluss auf die Politik. So weit wie m?glich kümmerte er sich um die zahllosen religi?sen Bauwerke. In summa ist ganz sicher festzuhalten, dass er die Spiritualit?t des tibetischen Buddhismus vergr??ert hat.

Auf der weltlichen Seite stärkte er Recht und Gesetz, trat in engere Verbindung mit dem Volk, führte humanere Grundsätze in Verwaltung und Justiz ein und, wie oben bereits gesagt, verringerte die klösterliche Vorherrschaft in weltlichen Angelegenheiten. In der Hoffnung, damit einer chinesischen Invasion vorbeugen zu können, baute er gegen den Widerstand der Klöster eine Armee auf; vor seiner Herrschaft gab es praktisch keine Armee. In Anbetracht der sehr angespannten tibetischen Staatsfinanzen, des intensiven Widerstands der Klöster und anderer Schwierigkeiten hätte er kaum weiter gehen können, als er es tat.

Im Verlauf seiner Regierung beendete der Dalai Lama die chinesische Vorherrschaft in dem großen Teil Tibets, den er beherrschte, indem er chinesische Soldaten und Beamte daraus verbannte. Dieser Teil Tibets wurde zu einem vollkommen unabhängigen Königreich und blieb dies auch während der letzten 20 Jahre seines Lebens.«

Sir Charles Bell in (Bell 2005: 546-47)

Der Vierzehnte Dalai Lama,
Tenzin Gyatso

Der Vierzehnte Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

?Der jetzige vierzehnte Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) wurde 1935 geboren. Die Chinesen besetzten Tibet in den frühen 1950er Jahren, der Dalai Lama verlie? Tibet 1959. Er lebt jetzt als Flüchtling in Dharamsala, Nordindien, wo er der Tibetischen Regierung im Exil vorsteht. Als gelehrte und charismatische Pers?nlichkeit, hat er aktiv die Unabh?ngigkeit seines Landes von China vertreten. Durch seine h?ufigen Reisen, Belehrungen und Bücher macht er den Buddhismus bekannt, engagiert sich für den Weltfrieden sowie für die Erforschung von Buddhismus und Wissenschaft. Als Anwalt einer ?universellen Verantwortung und eines guten Herzens?, erhielt er den Nobelpreis im Jahre 1989.?

Paul Williams, »Dalai Lama«, in
(Clarke, 2006, S. 137)

Moralische Legitimation
der Herrschaft Geistlicher

Für Sobisch ist die moralische Legitimation der Herrschaft Geistlicher ?außerordentlich zweifelhaft?. Er konstatiert:

?Es zeigte sich auch in Tibet, da? moralische Integrit?t nicht automatisch mit der Zugeh?rigkeit zu einer Gruppe von Menschen erlangt wird, sondern allein auf pers?nlichen Entscheidungen basiert. Vielleicht sind es ?hnliche überlegungen gewesen, die den derzeitigen, vierzehnten Dalai Lama dazu bewogen haben, mehrmals unmi?verst?ndlich zu erkl?ren, da? er bei einer Rückkehr in ein freies Tibet kein politische Amt mehr übernehmen werde. Dies ist, so meine ich, keine schlechte Nachricht. Denn dieser Dalai Lama hat bewiesen, da? man auch ohne ein international anerkanntes politisches Amt inne zu haben durch ein glaubhaft an ethischen Grunds?tzen ausgerichtetes beharrliches Wirken einen enormen Einfluss in der Welt ausüben kann.?

Jan-Ulrich Sobisch,
Lamakratie - Das Scheitern einer Regierungsform (PDF), S. 190,
Universität Hamburg