Following on from my last reply - if you read nothing else from the book: The Shadow of the Dalai Lama, Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism (2003), read the contents!
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The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Contents
Victor & Victoria Trimondi
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