The following are extracts from National Geographic articles, please read all 5 pages with an OPEN MIND.
Form your own opinion from your knowledge of Buddha Dharma. : )
Have fun!!!
[[ http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/1
There I spoke with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan god-king who fled Lhasa in March 1959 and established a government-in-exile in northern India. The 130,000 Tibetan exiles around the world still dream of the Dalai Lama marching triumphantly home to a newly independent Tibet.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/2
Now the Chinese government is betting that as Tibetans continue to join the money race, they'll become more pliant and less committed to the Dalai Lama and to what Beijing alleges is his scheme to split China by inciting rebellion in Tibet.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/3
Tibetan Buddhism, said the holy man, was becoming fashionable among sophisticated Chinese. "Some of it is due to their awareness that Buddhism is popular with famous American movie stars," he said, "and part is because their lives are empty and they feel a need to fill that emptiness with spirituality." In addition, he said with a vague smile, some are attracted by a misunderstanding of tantric practice, an esoteric element of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, which they associate with a more erotic sex life.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/4
Monks feel the lash of Chinese control most severely. In the Dalai Lama's day the power of the religious establishment was complete. Nearly a fourth of all Tibetan males took the tonsure and maroon robes of monkhood. The great monasteries counted members in the thousands and owned huge tracts of farming and grazing land. They enjoyed the right to use peasants as laborers and to recruit little boys, some of whom they may have used for sex. Claiming moral outrage, although in reality far more concerned with loosening Buddhism's hold on Tibetans, the Chinese have jailed thousands of monks during their occupation.
In Lhasa, I spoke with 73-year-old Tashi Tsering, who also allowed me to use his real name. He said that at the age of ten he'd been recruited into the Dalai Lama's dance troupe and chose to become a drombo, or passive sex partner, for a senior monk. Tsering, who has written a book about his life, said the drombo practice was widespread, but I was unable to find any other Tibetan willing to acknowledge awareness of this sexual activity in the monasteries.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/5
But like Tibetans I encountered elsewhere, they were willing to risk being caught to let a foreigner know their true allegiance. One, prayer beads in hand, sidled up to me and whispered, "I love the Dalai Lama. I think of him every day."
The monastic establishment today is a faint shadow of what it had been before the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa just steps ahead of the People's Liberation Army. I visited six monasteries, and at each one the nervous whispers were the same: By reducing the number of monks, the Chinese are attempting to destroy our religion. ]]
Question:
1. Does the Potala belongs to the Dalai Lama?
2. Should followers be taught to "love the Dalai Lama"?
3. If a religious leader can control others' lives and endorse using young boys as "passive sexual partners" for older monks, He is truly not a representative of any Divine Being but lackey of Satan, do you agree?
Form your own opinion from your knowledge of Buddha Dharma. : )
Have fun!!!
[[ http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/1
There I spoke with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan god-king who fled Lhasa in March 1959 and established a government-in-exile in northern India. The 130,000 Tibetan exiles around the world still dream of the Dalai Lama marching triumphantly home to a newly independent Tibet.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/2
Now the Chinese government is betting that as Tibetans continue to join the money race, they'll become more pliant and less committed to the Dalai Lama and to what Beijing alleges is his scheme to split China by inciting rebellion in Tibet.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/3
Tibetan Buddhism, said the holy man, was becoming fashionable among sophisticated Chinese. "Some of it is due to their awareness that Buddhism is popular with famous American movie stars," he said, "and part is because their lives are empty and they feel a need to fill that emptiness with spirituality." In addition, he said with a vague smile, some are attracted by a misunderstanding of tantric practice, an esoteric element of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, which they associate with a more erotic sex life.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/4
Monks feel the lash of Chinese control most severely. In the Dalai Lama's day the power of the religious establishment was complete. Nearly a fourth of all Tibetan males took the tonsure and maroon robes of monkhood. The great monasteries counted members in the thousands and owned huge tracts of farming and grazing land. They enjoyed the right to use peasants as laborers and to recruit little boys, some of whom they may have used for sex. Claiming moral outrage, although in reality far more concerned with loosening Buddhism's hold on Tibetans, the Chinese have jailed thousands of monks during their occupation.
In Lhasa, I spoke with 73-year-old Tashi Tsering, who also allowed me to use his real name. He said that at the age of ten he'd been recruited into the Dalai Lama's dance troupe and chose to become a drombo, or passive sex partner, for a senior monk. Tsering, who has written a book about his life, said the drombo practice was widespread, but I was unable to find any other Tibetan willing to acknowledge awareness of this sexual activity in the monasteries.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/features/world/asia/tibet/tibetans-text/5
But like Tibetans I encountered elsewhere, they were willing to risk being caught to let a foreigner know their true allegiance. One, prayer beads in hand, sidled up to me and whispered, "I love the Dalai Lama. I think of him every day."
The monastic establishment today is a faint shadow of what it had been before the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa just steps ahead of the People's Liberation Army. I visited six monasteries, and at each one the nervous whispers were the same: By reducing the number of monks, the Chinese are attempting to destroy our religion. ]]
Question:
1. Does the Potala belongs to the Dalai Lama?
2. Should followers be taught to "love the Dalai Lama"?
3. If a religious leader can control others' lives and endorse using young boys as "passive sexual partners" for older monks, He is truly not a representative of any Divine Being but lackey of Satan, do you agree?
4. Anu Yoga is not obscene but seems to be misinterpreted because of the heinous practice of some monks, do you agree?
5. No One can destroy your religion but yourself, do you agree?
Dear all, if all the above accounts are True, then the Potala is taken away by the Universal Divinities and not any government, do you agree?
Buddha teaches a way of life to alleviate sentient suffering and for all to live a better and happier life.
In my articles on Self Immolation, it seems the young monks were not taught to treasure the body they are given this lifetime to cultivate and leave samsara and also to help others do so as well. They are not True or Authentic Students of Buddha, do you agree?
Guru shared that we all cultivate to reveal our own Buddha Nature.
He also discourages "adulation" for him personally.
Respecting Guru is not to ignore Buddha's teachings, and not to harm Self or Others.
Anu Yoga is a practice using a partner of the opposite sex with equal level of cultivation attainment and not one of the same sex as a passive partner.
Anu Yoga also can be practice with Visionary Yidams of the opposite sex.
Therefore, using young boys as passive sex partners, is really a heinous crime to another human being. It is worse because these are young boys of 10.
Cultivation can reveal or uncover all you need within.
Your own shrine; temple; mandala; .... Buddha Nature... You really do not need others to help you except proper instruction from a Good Guru!
If I have a say of Universal matters, I would also shut-down the Potala, agree? :)
Cheers all
Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef
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