FTR#547—Hello, Dalai!—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in
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recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) This program begins a lengthy examination of
the Dalai Lama’s association with a covert-action milieu, much of it fascist
and associated with the Underground Reich. This material is to be viewed in the
context of author and political scientist Philip Bobbitt’s concept of “the
virtual state”—a state without formal geographical borders. (For more about the
concept of the virtual state, see—among other programs--FTR#’s 393, 395, 396, 397, 398.) In addition to the Dalai Lama’s collaboration
with Islamist and secular Pan-Turkist separatist elements in Xinjiang province
of China, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has maintained close connections over a
period of decades with SS officers, some of them war criminals. Indeed, the
Dalai Lama’s brand of Tantric Buddhism contains philosophical elements that can
be readily adapted to a fascist and warlike ideological construction. It was
this feature of the Tibetan religious philosophy that attracted the Nazi SS to
Tibetan society, an attraction that resulted in SS expeditions to that country.
Those expeditions led to the genesis of the Dalai Lama’s association with SS
men over the years. A major element of this program and ones to follow centers
on the Dalai Lama’s participation in the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples
Organization, headed up by Karl von Habsburg, the heir to the throne of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire. We are a long way from just “Buddhists” here, a fact that should be
borne in mind when considering the Dalai Lama’s situation. Be Sure to take note of the correction in paragraph number
8!
Program Highlights Include: The Tibetan Government in Exile’s selection of SS officers (including war
criminals) to state their case to the world; the Dalai Lama’s close
relationship with Shoko Asahara—the head of the Aum Shinrikyo cult (influenced
by Hitler, the cult perpetrated a sarin gas attack in Tokyo); the Dalai Lama’s
association with Jean Marques-Riviere (in his absence convicted and given the death
sentence for turning Jews over to the Gestapo in France); the Dalai Lama’s
association with Chilean occult fascist Miguel Serrano; the apocalyptic,
warlike philosophy contained in the brand of Buddhism practiced by the Dalai
Lama; the significance of the Kalachakra Sand Mandala and the creation and
destruction of such a mandala at the World Trade Center in the 1990’s; the
Dalai Lama’s close association with Erkin Alptekin, a former employee of Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty and an apparent asset of elements of U.S.
intelligence; the Dalai Lama’s connections to the CIA; the Dalai Lama’s
collaboration with Al Qaeda-related Islamist elements in Xinjiang province.
1.
Addressing a
cognitive consideration central to grasping the enormous gap between the public
perception of the Dalai Lama and the unsavory reality of his political
connections and religious practices, the broadcast opens with a telling,
relevant quote from Christopher Hitchens. Indeed, the Dalai Lama has
his words and actions judged by his reputation, not the other way around. This
broadcast should afford the discriminating listener an opportunity to do
otherwise. “
. . . The greatest triumph that modem PR can offer is the transcendent
success of having your words and actions judged by your reputation, rather than
the other way about. The ‘spiritual leader’ of Tibet has enjoyed this
unassailable status for some time now, becoming a byword and synonym for
saintly and ethereal values. Why this doesn't put people on their guard I'll
never know. . . .” (“His Material Highness” by Christopher Hitchens; Salon.com;
7/13/1998; accessed at: http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/13news.html.)
2.
Introducing the subject of the Nazi SS’s fascination with Tibet and its
exploration of that country, the program presents an account of the 1938 SS
expedition to Lhasa. It is essential to understand the fascination that Tibetan
society and the Tibetan perversion of Buddhism had for SS chief Heinrich
Himmler, a man profoundly influenced by occultist theory. As noted by the
author of Himmler’s Crusade, the occultist views of Himmler and the SS
were inextricably linked with Nazi racism and murder. “One
of the many baffling things about the Nazis is how they managed to combine
faith in ludicrous mythology and pseudo-science with running an efficient state
machine. The mild- looking Reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, head of the German
police and the SS, was the most prominent exponent of this mysticism. He
believed in the lost kingdom of Atlantis, in pagan rituals involving fir sprigs
and holly, in the martial virtues of Hinduism and in ‘World Ice Theory’ (the
early ancestors of the Aryans had been frozen in ice until their release by
divine thunderbolts). Christopher Hale makes the point in this book that,
‘Historians have often viewed Himmler's occult obsessions as exotic marginalia
in a life otherwise dedicated to efficient policing and ruthless genocide. The
truth is that Himmler's enthusiasms about lost civilizations, prehistoric
archaeology, the Holy Grail and, especially, the origins of the ‘Indo-Germanic'
races were intricately interwoven with the racial 'theories' that demanded the
elimination of the unfit.’” (“Patrick French Reviews Himmler’s
Crusade by Christopher Hale; Daily Telegraph; 91/2003.)
3.
The physical appearance (high cheekbones) and imperious behavior of the
Tibetan nobility led some SS theoreticians to posit an anthropological link
between the Tibetans and the so-called “Aryans.” One of the principal exponents
of this theory was Bruno Beger, an SS anthropologist and, as we shall see, a
murderous war criminal and close personal associate of the Dalai Lama. “In 1938 an expedition set off for Lhasa under Himmler's
patronage, funded by German business groups. It was led by Ernst Schafer, a
brilliant marksman and naturalist who had been on two expeditions to China and
Tibet. He was an odd choice for such a mission, being prone to violent rages,
but was a favorite of Himmler. A British diplomat described Schafer as
‘volatile, scholarly, vain to the point of childishness, disregardful of social
convention or the feelings of others, and first and foremost always a Nazi’.
The other principal figure was Bruno Beger, a rising young anthropologist and
SS member who believed that ‘Europids’ or ‘Aryans’ might have originated in
central Asia, and that the Tibetan nobility with their ‘imperious,
self-confident behavior’ and sharp cheekbones might provide a missing link.
Beger intended to measure a sample of Tibetans and take moulds of their faces.
By the end of the trip, the team had accumulated over 60,000 photographs and
shot more than 120,000 feet of film. The German
expedition left Tibet with 50 new varieties of
barley and wheat seeds, some ethnographic ephemera and plenty of dubious data.
Schafer tried without success to take home a favored Sikkimese helper, saying,
‘I have lost my wife, I also have nobody, I might even adopt him as my son.’
(In fact he had shot his wife dead two years earlier in a bizarre hunting
accident.) Back in Berlin, Schafer was treated as a hero and given an SS
death’s-head ring by Himmler, although the mission had brought Germany little
substantive scientific or political gain. . . .”
(Idem.)
4.
In order to test some of his anthropological theories, Beger had over
100 inmates at Auschwitz murdered so their corpses and skeletal remains could
be studied. Again, Beger was a close associate of the Dalai Lama. “ . . . Although Schafer remained part of Himmler’s
circle, he was unnerved by the Holocaust and preferred to concoct a
hare-brained scheme to recruit Himalayan irregulars for an invasion of India.
Beger, however, selected over 100 inmates of Auschwitz, some of whom looked
like ‘Asiatics,’ for anthropological investigation. After they had been studied
and photographed, the victims were gassed and their bodies preserved in vats of
ethanol. Beger was imprisoned after the war as an accomplice to murder, Himmler’s
Crusade suffers from too many diversions, but is a wide-ranging book which offers a warning about the
dangers of alternative history. The author might, however, have observed that
the Dalai Lama’s official website features a statement of support from Bruno
Beger and others, together with a 1994 photograph showing the old Waffen-SS man
standing at the Dalai Lama’s right hand. . . .” (Idem.)
5.
More about the war crimes of the Dalai Lama’s pal Bruno Beger: “...In 1942, SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Prof. Dr. August Hirt,
chairman of the anatomy department at the Reich University in Strasbourg, set
about assembling a collection of Jewish skeletons under the auspices of the
Ahnenerbe Foundation. To this end, he received permission from Himmler to
select the required number of prisoners at Auschwitz. The selection of 115
persons (79 Jewish men, 30 Jewish women, 2 Poles, and 4 ‘Asians’ - probably
Soviet POWs) and the preliminary preparation, consisting of biometrical
measurements and the collection of personal data, were carried out by Hirt's
collaborator, SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Dr. Bruno Beger, who arrived in Auschwitz in
the first half of 1943. Beger finished his work by June 15, 1943. After going
through quarantine, some of the prisoners whom Beger selected were sent in July
and early August to Natzweiler-Struthof, where they were killed in the gas
chamber. The victims' corpses were sent to Hirt as material for his skeleton
collection, which was intended for use in anthropological studies that would
demonstrate the superiority of the Nordic race. Hirt selected thirty-nine women
for their racial characteristics: [They] were given a sham physical examination
for reassurance, then gassed. The corpses were immediately transported to the
anatomy pavilion of the Strasbourg University Hospital. A French inmate, who
had to assist the project's director...told how ‘preservation began
immediately,’ with the arrival of bodies that were ‘still warm, the eyes...wide
open and shining.’ There were two subsequent shipments of men, from each of
whom the left testicle had been removed and sent to Hirt's anatomy lab.” (Biography
of Dr. August Hirt; accessed at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Hirt.html.)
6.
Another close associate of the Dalai Lama had an SS pedigree—Heinrich
Harrer, played by Brad Pitt in the movie “Seven Years in Tibet.” The
Trimondis—former close religious, political and professional associates of the
Dalai Lama—note that he has maintained continuous contact with the likes of
Harrer and Beger. Later on in the broadcast, we will examine other Nazi and war
criminal associates of the Dalai Lama. “As
depressing as it may be for the Nobel peace prize winner's followers, there has
been continuous contact between the Dalai Lama and the far right wing and
former national socialists (Nazis). His close friendship with his German mentor,
Heinrich Harrer has become the most well-- known of these. It caused a small
scandal in 1997-1998 when, after years of research, the Austrian journalist,
Gerald Lehner, succeeded in making public Harrer's ‘brown-shirt’ (i.e., German
fascist) past, which the latter had been able to keep secret for many years.
Harrer is not just anybody. He is one of the best-known international authors
and has sold over four million books in 57 languages (mostly about Tibet and
the Fourteenth Dalai Lama).” (The Shadow of the Dalai Lama:
Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism [online book by Victor
and Victoria Trimondi]; accessed at: http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Part-2-12.htm.)
7.
More about Heinrich Harrer, the Dalai Lama’s SS tutor and his
relationship to the SS Tibet research: “The
Austrian mountain climber and competition skier joined the SS on April 1, 1938
and in the same year received instructions to climb Nanga Parbat in the
Himalayas after an official meeting with Adolf Hitler. Heinrich Himmler,
himself most interested in occult phenomena is said by Harrer to have offered
him a Tibet expedition. In 1942, the Reichsfuhrer of the SS (Himmler) ordered
the creation of the Sven Hedin Institutfur Innerasienforschung [Sven Hedin
Institute for Central Asian Research]. This educational establishment had
combined esoteric, scientific, and racial studies goals. It was completely in
this vein that Himmler was interested in occult doctrines from ‘mysterious Tibet’,
and assumed - probably under the influence of theosophical ideas - that a ‘race
with Nordic blood’ existed there, oppressed by the English and Chinese, and
waiting for their liberation by the Germans. Himmler's ‘advisor’, reports the German magazine Spiegel,
‘... and scientist Ernst Schafer believed that Tibet was the cradle of
humanity, the refuge of an 'Aryan root race', where a priestly caste had
created a mysterious kingdom of Shambhala - decorated with the Buddhist symbol
of the wheel of teaching, a swastika. In 1934 Schafer set out on the first of
two expeditions financed by the SS to track down remnants of the 'Nordic
intellectual' nobility’ (Spiegel, 16/1998, p. 111).” (Idem.)
8.
Both Harrer and Beger were among the seven individuals assembled by the
Tibetan “Government in Exile” (headed by the Dalai Lama) in order to give
testimony about how splendid Tibet was before the Chinese invasion. CORRECTION: THE TWO SS MEN WERE NOT ACTUALLY OFFICIALS OF
THE TIBETAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE, AS STATED IN THE BROADCAST. THE GATHERING WAS
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE TIBETAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE, WHICH ACTIVELY SOUGHT
THE INPUT AND COLLABORATION OF THE DALAI’S SS PALS. BUT, AGAIN, THEY WERE NOT
ACTUAL OFFICIALS OF THAT ORGANIZATION. THE CONFUSION AROSE, IN PART, BECAUSE OF
REFERENCES ON THE GOVERNMENT’S WEBSITE TO PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED THE TIBETAN
GOVERNMENT IN EXILE AS “TIBETAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE.” THE TERM APPEARS TO BE
SORT OF A “NEW AGEY,” PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT—KIND OF A “WE ARE THE WORLD” IDEA.
NONETHELESS, THE SELECTION OF TWO SS ASSOCIATES OF THE DALAI LAMA—ONE OF THEM
AN AUSCHWITZ WAR CRIMINAL—AS WITNESSES TO THE BYGONE CHARMS OF THE TIBET OF OLD
IS ALTOGETHER SIGNIFICANT. HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN LISTENERS THINK OF WHO HUNG OUT
WITH SS OFFICERS IN THE 1990’S? WHY WERE SS MEN SELECTED FOR THIS ROLE? “In September 1994, a historic meeting took place in
London. Seven individuals from different parts of the world gathered there to
meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who was on a visit to the United Kingdom, and
to talk about one common issue: their recollection of the days spent in
independent Tibet. These individuals had spent some time in Tibet in different
parts of this century. They were: Mrs. Joan Mary Jehu (who visited Tibet in
September 1932 accompanying her father, Colonel Weir, the Political Officer in
Sikkim, on an official mission to Tibet.); Mr. Robert Ford (who was radio
officer with the British Mission in Lhasa in 1945 and radio officer to the
Tibetan Government from 1948 to 1950.); Mr Heinrich Harrer (who spent seven
years in Tibet from 1943 to 1950); Mr Archibald Jack (who visited the British
Army garrison at Gyantse in 1938); Dr Bruno Beger (anthropologist, ethnologist,
geographer and physician of the 1939 German Schaefer expedition to Tibet.);
Prof. Fosco Maraini (who visited Tibet in 1937 and 1948 with Prof. Giuseppe
Tucci of Rome University.); and Kazi Sonam Topgyal (official interpreter and
translator to the Indian Mission in Lhasa from 1949 for the next seven years.
[He] visited Tibet again in 1957-58 as a member of an Indian delegation to
explore the possible visit of Indian Prime Minister Nehru.). Mr. Hugh
Richardson, the head of the British mission in Lhasa, could not attend on
account of indisposition, but he nevertheless issued a statement. . . .” (Posting
on the site of the Tibetan Government in Exile; accessed at: http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1994/11/24-2_1.html
)
9.
Much of the balance of the program draws upon the research of Victor
and Victoria Trimondi, who were very closely associated with the Dalai Lama.
(The names are pseudonyms—the Trimondis fear retribution for their critical discussion
of the Dalai Lama and his many fascist contacts.) The passage that follows
relates the Trimondis’ relationship to the Dalai Lama, as well as discussing how he presents two faces to the world at large.
“ . . . STEPHENS: . . . How did you first come to
know the Dalai Lama? TRIMONDI: We first met the XIV Dalai Lama in the eighties
and became friends while publishing his writings in our publishing house,
Trikont-Dianus-Verlag. While organizing international conferences with him and
other famous speakers on interreligious and intercultural topics and
specifically securing governmental level invitations to Germany and Austria for
him, we began to seriously explore Tibetan Buddhism. However, after many years
of extensive study and reflection, we seriously questioned some of the
fundamental tenets of the Tantric Buddhism the Dalai Lama professed and
eventually became one of his sharpest critics. . . Frankly speaking, the Dalai
Lama has two faces. He makes his official contact with the West under the maxim
of Mahayana Buddhism and then deftly assimilates the highest values and ideals
of western culture (Christian, Jewish and humanist). On his present trip to
America he has met with Muslims like Mohammed Ali, Jesuits at the University of
San Francisco, political leaders from Republican and Democratic persuasions,
and then will comfortably meet with ethicists and scientists at MIT and
Harvard. Through diplomatic tolerance he wins agnostics as well as the hearts
of unsuspecting Jews and Christians, to whom he preaches in the tongue of ‘a
man of peace’ and as a human rights activist relates passages of ‘compassion,
love, and non-violence’ from the ‘Sermon on the Mount.’ Nearly all of the
speeches the Dalai Lama delivers in public are extremely tolerant, human and compassionate.
You can only agree. And yet, there is another face that peeks out from behind
the mask of goodness, charity and kindness, which gives one pause to think more
deeply about the shadow of this ‘man of peace’. . . .” (An interview
with Victor and Victoria Trimondi by James C. Stephens; 9/11/2003; accessed at:
http://www.trimondi.de/EN/interv03
.html.)
10.
Next, the Trimondis highlight some of the features of the Tantric
Buddhism practiced by the Dalai Lama. In addition to a belief in demons and a
reliance on magic rituals (some of them sexual in nature), the Dalai Lama’s
brand of Tantric Buddhism espouses a militant, warlike and intolerant nature
toward other religions. As noted by the Trimondis, there are some similarities
between this perverted manifestation of Buddhism and the Wahhabi/Muslim
Brotherhood’s perverted manifestation of Islam. (For more about the Muslim
Brotherhood’s perversion of the concept of jihad, see FTR#540.) The Dalai Lama’s
brand of Tantric Buddhism contains what might be a viewed as “Buddhist
jihadism.” In addition, the Trimondis take note of the significance of the Kalachakra
Tantra ceremony performed by the Dalai Lama, a subject to which we will return
later in the broadcast. In addition, Tantric Buddhism’s apocalyptic vision of a
climactic war of the religions (“Shambala War”) bears some similarities to the
fundamentalist Christian vision of Armageddon. “TRIMONDI:
The XTV Dalai Lama, the God-King of Tibet is the highest representative of
Tantric Buddhism, established in Tibet in the 8th century, A.D. Tantrism, the
last stage in the history of Buddhism (since the 5th century A.D. in India) is
based on ritual and magic formulas. Not unlike other religions it also has
‘skeletons in its closet’ which it carefully conceals as a guest in the Western
world. Tibetan Tantrism is a belief in spirits and demons, secret sexual practices,
occultism, mind control, and an obsession with power. In contrary to every
democratic custom, the present Dalai Lama consults with the Nechung Oracle, a
monk who is possessed by a Mongolian war God, on all-important state decisions.
What primarily concerns us about the interreligious ceremony in the National
Cathedral in Washington, D.C. is the level of naivety in the West. For the past
25 years, the Dalai Lama has quietly performed the Kalachakra Tantra (‘The
Wheel of Time’), the highest of all ancient Tantric initiations for tens of
thousands of spiritual novices in the West; introducing Tantric ideology,
secret sexual practices, and magic rituals integrated into the context of his
religious-political world view. Critical voices have been raised, while he
continues to secretly transmit the Kalachakra's prophetic vision of the
establishment of a universal Buddhocracy (Shambhala) in which spiritual and
worldly power are united in one person, the ‘world emperor’(Chakravartin),
wherein other religions will no longer exist. . . . . In the Kalachakra Tantra
is prophesized the establishment of a Buddhocratic Empire, a clash of
civilizations will arise as the military forces of Buddhism wage war against
the armies of non-Buddhist religions. Murderous super-weapons possessed by the
Buddhist Shambhala Army are described at length and in enthusiastic detail in
the Kalachakra Tantra Text (Shri Kalachakra I. 128 -142) and employed against
‘enemies of the Dharma (Buddha's teachings).’ Over the last five years in the
German speaking countries, these shadow-aspects of Lamaism have lead to a vast,
steady and increasing stream of criticism in the media. During the
Kalachakra-Initiation of the Dalai Lama last year in Austria there were very
controversial debates on TV and radio stations and press media. The
internationally well known newspaper Der Standard published an article
entitled ‘A Warrior Ritual with the Dalai Lama: The Kalachakra’. The German
Weekly of Christian intellectuals ‘Der Rheinische Merkur entitled an article:
‘What is hidden behind the Kalachakra Tantra? Supremely ferocious warriors!’
STEPHENS: Who are these non-Buddhist enemies spoken of in the Kalachakra
Teachings? I've seen articles in the Buddhist magazines the Shambhala Sun
and Tricycle about Lamas dressing up in military uniforms. I thought
Buddhism was a peaceful faith? TRIMONDI: The secret text of the Kalachakra
explicitly names the ‘leaders’ of Judaism, Christianity and Islam as the
opponents of Buddhism: ‘Adam, Enoch, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mani, Muhammad and
the Mahdi’ describing them as ‘the family of the demonic snakes’ (Shri
Kalachakra I. 154). The final, Armageddon-like battle (Shambhala war) ends in
the total victory of the Buddhists. The official Kalachakra-Interpreter
Alexander Berzin openly compares the principles of the Islamic ‘Jihad’ with
that of the Shambhala war. As in the Islamic martyr-ideology
Shambhala-Warriors, who will be killed in the last battle have earned passage
into the [Buddhist] paradise. The military scenarios in some Buddhist Centers
such as the Shambhala training camps of the deceased Lama Chogyum Trungpa, have
until now only a symbolic meaning, and yet they are interpreted as a spiritual
preparation of the prophesized great Shambhala War. In the imagination of some
Lamas all participants in a Kalachakra initiation have the questionable
privilege of being reborn as ‘Shambhala Warriors’ in order to be able to
participate in the coming apocalyptic battle either as infantry or officers,
dependant on rank. High lamas of particular lineages have already been assigned
to commanding positions in the future. . . .” (Idem.)
11.
Next, the Trimondis note the influence of Tantric Buddhism (and other
Eastern religions) on the philosophy of SS chief Heinrich Himmler. They also
note that well-known German Buddhist teachers Durckheim and Herrigel have been
doctrinaire Nazis. In addition, the Trimondis note that the Dalai Lama has
maintained close connections with other Nazis and fascists over the years,
including “the French SS- collaborator, convinced anti-Semite, recognized
Orientalist and Kalachakra Tantra expert Jean Marques-Riviere (in his absence
convicted and given the death sentence for turning Jews over to the Gestapo in
France).” The Aum Shinrikyo guru Shoko
Asahara was also a friend of the Dalai Lama and was influenced by the ideology
of the Kalachakra Tantra. (For more about the Aum Shinrikyo cult, including the
influence of Hitler on the Dalai Lama’s friend Shoko Asahara, see FTR#’s 35, 69.) “TRIMONDI: In our historical essay Hitler - Buddha -
Krishna - an Unholy Alliance from the Third Reich to Today, we show that
the warlike and racist ideas of Heinrich Himmler of the SS and of other well
known Neo-fascists have been fundamentally inspired by elements of different
Asian religions, such as Vedism, Buddhism, Lamaism and that prominent German
Zen Teachers-Durckheim & Herrigel have been convinced Nazis. It's really
shocking, in the ‘SS-Ahnenerbe’, which was the academic brain trust of the SS,
that its Chief Heinrich Himmler, was openly engaged in ongoing discussions with
the most distinguished German Orientalists of his time in the construction of a
new Indo- Arian Nazi-Religion. After WW II, this discussion was continued by
prominent neo- fascist ideologues. Both of our books have stimulated a great
discussion about the ideological sources of religious fundamentalism and about
the clash of civilizations. . . . TRIMONDI: It is a fact that the Shambhala War
Ideology of the Kalachakra-Tantra has led to aggressive behavior,
megalomaniacal visions and conspiracy theories both in the history of the Asia
as well as in that of religious fascism and neo-fascism. Already in the SS-Ahnenerbe,
where Heinrich Himmler's Nazi-Religion was born, there was an interest in the
contents of the Kalachakra-Tantra. The influential fascist and cultural
philosopher Julius Evola saw in the mythic world of Shambhala an esoteric
center of a sacred warrior race. This vision is today still firmly anchored in
the religious ideas of the international far-right movement. That alone makes
it necessary for the Dalai Lama to distance himself clearly from the
war-mongering Shambhala Myth. Instead of this he has cultivated friendly
contacts with people such as the ex-SS men Bruno Beger (convicted as helping to
murder more than 86 Jews) and Heinrich Harrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet
(a chronicle of his experience with the Dalai Lama over seven years prior to
his exile to India). The Homepage of the Government of Tibet in Exile
www.tibet.com/Status/statement.html shows the XIV Dalai Lama between Bruno
Beger on his right and Heinrich Harrer on his left. Beger has been a member of
the famous SS-Tibet Expedition organized by the SS in 1938/1939 whose primary
goal was to find traces of an ancient, lost indo-Arian religion in the
Himalayas. Some occult leaders in the SS were convinced that Tibetan Lamas are
the key holders of these Indo- Arian Mysteries. Beger is highly respected by the Government of Tibet in Exile as a
chief witness for the political independence of the country in the 30's and
40's of the last century. [Italics are Mr. Emory’s.] Nearly unknown until
now are the contacts of the Dalai Lama with the French SS- collaborator,
convinced anti-Semite, recognized Orientalist and Kalachakra Tantra expert Jean
Marques-Riviere (in his absence convicted and given the death sentence for
turning Jews over to the Gestapo in France). The founder of an esoteric Hitler
movement, the ex-Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano (promoter of an extremely
racist SS-mysticism, which is based on Tantric practices and on the idea of the
Shambhala Warriors) met the Dalai Lama four times. Well known became his
relationship with the Japanese terrorist, Shoko Asahara, whom he described,
even after the Tokyo sarin gas attacks, as his ‘friend, albeit an imperfect
one’. Only later he did distance himself from the Guru. Asahara's Doomsday
Philosophy was mainly influenced by the Shambhala Ideology and by Tibetan
Tantrism.” (Idem.)
12.
Next, the program sets forth the significance of the Kalachakra Sand
Mandala, the construction and destruction of which is believed by Tantric
Buddhists to have tangible metaphysical significance. Specifically, the ritual
is believed to call into play the pantheon of spirits and demons of this brand
of Buddhism, and to embody the eventual destruction of all things physical.
Interestingly (and perhaps significantly), the Dalai Lama and his disciples
performed such a ritual at the World Trade Center in the wake of the first
World Trade Center bombing. While this may have no political significance
whatsoever, it may be very significant, indeed!! Were occult fascists
within the Dalai Lama’s milieu invoking a mystical element they believed would
aid (or be aided by) the destruction of the World Trade Center? For more
about fascist and Nazi connections to 9/11, see—among other programs—FTR#456. “TRIMONDI: A Mandala is a sacred pictogram; one also can
call it a ‘magic circle’. It is an instrument to evoke the gods, goddesses and
demons of the Tantric pantheon. For a modem Western approach, in which religion
and arts are not yet unified, the Mandala is a work of art. However, in the Lamaist
tradition where there is no difference between the aesthetic and the sacred and
where art is always sacred art, the Mandala is a spiritual power vortex, an
assembly point of gods and demons, a palace of the divine, a spiritual battery
from where powerful energies are radiating. It is also connected with the
Lamaist idea that the place where the Mandala is erected, stands under the
absolute control of its divine or, we would say, demonic ‘inhabitants’. The
intricate Mandala, constructed during the Kalachakra Ceremony, is made with
colored sand and symbolizes the whole universe. At the end of the ritualistic
performance the sand construction will be destroyed by the Tibetan monks. The
so called ‘dismantling’ of the sand Mandala symbolizes the destruction of the
world and of the universe. This is part of the apocalyptic Doomsday Scenarios
in the Kalachakra prophecies, which culminate in a final battle and the End of
our planet. Nevertheless the construction and destruction of the Mandala is
presented by the Dalai Lama as a contribution to world peace. Although one
would desire to believe in its peace producing energy, realistically one has to
accept, that the construction of this magic circle after more than 25 years in
the West has brought no more appeasement to the people than it did in Tibet,
which has suffered much. The aggressive and terrorist energies have become more
and stronger in our world and the clash of religions has become an
everyday-problem in politics. Is it not evident that the construction of 300
sand Mandalas throughout the U.S. you are speaking of has not contributed peace
to this country? History, on the contrary, has proceeded in the opposite
direction and is on the way of destruction and war. In our studies it was
alarming to find that following the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 a
Wheel of Time (Kalachakra) Sand Mandala was built in the lobby of Tower One.
For over thirty days, many of the World Trade Center workers and visitors were
invited by the Tibetan Monks to participate in the construction of this
Mandala. When the Dalai Lama visits New York in the next days, we would ask:
Why the terrible event of 9/11 could happen at the World Trade Center that was
consecrated by the so called ‘Circle of Peace,’ the Kalachakra Sand Mandala,
the same mandalas that were unable to prevent the destruction of 7500
monasteries of Tibet? In this context a sentence of the Tantra expert and
Indian scholar Shashi Bhusan Dasgupta may be remarkable: ‘The word Kala means
time, death and destruction. Kala-Chakra is the Wheel of Destruction.’ We just
did find in the Internet a statement of a participant of the WTC Kalachakra
Ceremony, which seems really revealing especially because it is made by an
initiand of the Tantra: ‘The topic shifted to the Kalachakra Mandala that was
made at One World Trade Center. I was at the dissolution ceremony there, may be
around '96. The monks gathered up all the sand from the Mandala at 1WTC, put it
in a vase, then carried it across the bridge into World Financial Center
through the Winter Garden, then dumped the sand ceremoniously into the Hudson
River for the sake of World Peace. The surface of the river glittered with the
afternoon sun, and I cried. 5 years later, the whole building is gone, just
like the sand Mandala’ . . .” (Idem.)
13.
Again, it should be noted here that the Trimondis were among the Dalai
Lama’s most devoted professional, political and spiritual associates. What they
have to say is not to be taken lightly. The Trimondis editorialize about their
fears concerning the propagation of the Dalai Lama’s spiritual/political
philosophy: “TRIMONDI: We are really uneasy, if you
ask us, as to what may potentially happen if this ‘Buddhist-Jihad-Ideology’ of
the Kalachakra Tantra will become a new vision of the Chinese political
self-understanding. Will the much more peaceful and softer philosophy of Daoism
and Confucianism be replaced by the ‘Shambhala Warrior Doctrine’, which was
once propagated in thirties by the Japanese Shinto-Fascists to mobilize the
Mongolian minorities of Manchuria and West China? If the present situation in
Europe is any indicator, we must say that we are alarmed as we witness the
rising interest in Germany [on the part] of Fascist, Neo-fascist and
Nazi-intellectuals and in Asia of a terrorist like the Japanese Doomsday Guru
Shoko Asahara in the ideological concepts of the Shambhala War of the
Kalachakra Tantra. This should be a Menetekel, that the ‘writing is on the
wall’ as a major wake-up call for the West.” (Idem.)
14.
Gaining a broader view of the political milieu of which the Dalai Lama
is a part, the broadcast notes that the Dalai Lama has collaborated with
Islamists from among the Uighur population of Xinjiang province of China. The
Uighurs--a largely Muslim population who speak a Turkic language—have been
agitating for independence from China. (The Uighurs refer to Xinjiang as East
or Eastern Turkestan.) With Xinjiang province being rich in petroleum, the
Uighurs have had little trouble obtaining support from foreign intelligence
services. For additional information about Uighur involvement with the Muslim
Brotherhood/Al Qaeda milieu, see FTR#348. It should be
noted that we are a long way from dealing with “Buddhists” here!! The Dalai
Lama’s milieu is part of a larger Underground Reich virtual state. “India should have reasons to be concerned over the Dalai
Lama's hobnobbing with the pan- Islamic elements in Xinjiang. One cannot avoid suspecting
that the influence of these elements must have been behind his participation in
a conference organized in Chennai last year by some elements, which have been
acting as apologists for Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani military
dictator, which was attended by a representative of the Huryiat of J&K and
a large number of Pakistanis, some of them retired Pakistani military officers.
The Dalai Lama's set-up subsequently denied or played down some of the
controversial remarks attributed to him at the conference. The Government of
India should consider conveying to the Dalai Lama its unhappiness and concern
over his association with pan-Islamic elements in Xinjiang.” (“US
& Terrorism in Xinjiang” by B. Raman; From the website of the South Asia
Analysis Group [an Indian intelligence/national security think tank]; 7/02;
accessed at: http://www.saag.org/papers5/paper499.html.)
15.
More on the Uighur involvement with Al Qaeda: “10. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Abu Sayyaf
of the southern Philippines have been designated as Foreign Terrorist
Organizations under the US law of 1996, but not the Eastern Turkestan Islamic
Party, though all the three are members of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic
Front For Jehad Against the USA and Israel. In initiating action, either for
designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, or for action under the UN
Security Council Resolution No, 1373 in respect of bank accounts, the US and
the European Union have focused essentially on terrorist organizations, which
are perceived by them as international in nature or which are seen as posing a
threat to their nationals and interests. Terrorist organizations viewed by them
as purely indigenous have been excluded. These multiple yardsticks have been
used vis- a-vis China as well as India.” (Idem.)
16.
Note that both the Islamist element of the Uighur independence movement
and its secular allies have collaborated with the Dalai Lama. “7. Uighurs were found fighting with al-Qaeda in
Afghanistan. We are aware of credible reports that some Uighurs who were
trained by al-Qaeda have returned to China. . . .24. The second similarity
relates to the external causes of aggravation of the terrorist violence in
Xinjiang. Just as in J & K, in Xinjiang too, there are two distinct
terrorist/extremist movements- -one resorting to violence on ethnic grounds to
assert the Uighur ethnic identity against the perceived Han Chinese domination
and the other using religious and pan-Islamic arguments to justify violence for
the establishment of an independent Islamic State. While the ethnic separatist
elements have been the beneficiaries of sympathy and support from the Dalai
Lama's set-up and the Tibetan diaspora abroad, and the US, Taiwanese and
Turkish intelligence agencies, the religious fundamentalist elements have been
in receipt of support from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed jehadi
organizations in Pakistan, the Taliban and bin Laden's International Islamic
Front For Jehad Against the USA and Israel.” (Idem.)
17.
According to the Raman paper, the CIA had close connections to Erkin
Alptekin, a member of the board of the Dalai Lama Foundation and a functionary
of the movement to establish Xinjiang province of China as an independent
(Muslim) Uighur state—East Turkestan. It should be noted that Alptekin is an
operative of the Pan-Turkist movement, which is distinct from the Islamist
element in the Uighur independence movement. The Pan-Turkist movement is
discussed at length in FTR#549,
as well as RFA#’s 14 and 21, available from Spitfire. “25. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) of the USA had built up a network of contacts with the Uighur
separatist elements and some of those, who had in the past worked for the
Munich-based Radio Liberty of the CIA such as Erkin Alptekin, chairman of the
Europe-based Eastern Turkestani Union and a close Uighur associate of the Dalai
Lama, are now in the forefront of the ethnic separatist movement. . . .” (Idem.)
18.
The Dalai Lama himself is no stranger to elements of U.S. intelligence,
specifically the CIA. “ . . .However, throughout
the 1960’s, the Tibetan exile community was secretly pocketing $1.7 million
from the CIA, according to documents released by the State Department in 1998.
Once this fact was publicized, the Dalai Lama’s organization itself issued a
statement admitting that it had received millions of dollars from the CIA
during the 1960’s to send armed squads of exiles into Tibet to undermine the
Maoist revolution. The Dalai Llama’s annual payment from the CIA was $186,000.
Indian intelligence also financed both him and other Tibetan exiles. He has
refused to say whether he or his brothers worked for the CIA. The agency has
also declined to comment. . . .” (“Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet
Myth” by Michael Parenti; 7/04; accessed at: http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html.)
19.
In addition to his background with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty—both
closely connected to U.S. intelligence—Erkin Alptekin is a founder and key
member of the UNPO, about which we will have more to say in weeks to come. “ERKIN ALPTEKIN is one of the foremost human rights
advocates for the Uighur people of Eastern Turkestan, also known as the
Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Alptekin was
employed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 1971 to 1994. He is one of the
founders of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), and
currently serves as its general secretary.” (Excerpt
from the list of the board of the Dalai Lama Foundation; accessed at: http://www.dalailamafoundation.org/members/en/founders.jsp
)
20.
Looking ahead to future discussions of the milieu to which the Dalai
Lama belongs, the program highlights the head of the UNPO—Karl von Habsburg,
the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (For more about the
Habsburgs and their fascist connections, see—among other programs—FTR#536.) Again, we are
a long, long way from dealing with “Buddhists” here! With the Dalai Lama
and his milieu, we appear to be looking at manifestations of the Underground
Reich as a “virtual state”—a state without formal geographical borders. “The eldest son and heir of the dynasty is Karl (Karl's
website), who lives in Austria and has served in the Austrian army and was a
member of the European Parliament, like his father, from 1996-1999.
[Italics are Mr. Emory’s.] He has worked hard to keep the family in the public
limelight, even hosting a popular television game show. He works quietly to
change the Austrian laws of 1919 that forbid the Habsburgs from holding any
political office and has often been mentioned as a possible Chancellor of the
Austrian Republic. At this time he is the Generaldirektor of the UNPO (United
Nations and Peoples organization). In 1993 Karl married Francesca
Thyssen-Bornemisza who is well known in European high society.” (Entry for Karl von Habsburg; accessed at: http://www.antiquesatoz.com/habsburg/habsburg-family.htm.)