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Da L LA MA与9/11
对Victor Trimondi 和Victoria Trimondi（德国）的采访
作者：James C. Stephens
九月十一日，2003
Stephens：今天是九月十一日，是美国遭受恐怖分子袭击的两周年纪念日。在华盛顿特区的国家大教堂的主要发言人不是美国福音教徒（evangelist）Billy Grahma,而是丹增嘉措（Tenzin Gyatso），第十四世Da L LA MA，流亡的西藏神王。由五个来自于他在纽约的寺院的喇嘛陪伴着，他先进行了佛教祈祷仪式，然后对七千听众发表了“培养和平，消弭暴力”的演讲。我们今天在德国的专访对象是Victor和Victoria Trimondi（译者注：可能是夫妻或兄妹）。他们曾在欧洲推广Da L LA MA的理念。他们合作写作了一本重要的欧洲畅销书《Da L LA MA的阴影：藏传佛教中的性，魔法和政治》。你们是如何首次认识Da L LA MA的？
Trimondi：我们在八十年代首次遇见十四世Da L LA MA，并通过在我们的出版社，Trikont-Dianus-Verlag，出版他的文章而与他成为朋友。在和他以及其他著名的发言人组织关于跨宗教，跨文化的国际会议的时候，尤其是在确保他获得德国和澳大利亚政府的官方邀请的时候，我们开始认真地了解藏传佛教。但是，在多年的广泛研究和思考之后，我们严肃的质疑Da L LA MA宣扬的密宗(Tantric Buddhism)的一些基本信条。最终我们成为他最严厉的批判者之一。
Stephens：今天，Da L LA MA受到了国家大教堂的神职人员的热烈欢迎。他被请来做主要发言人，并和其他藏传佛教的喇嘛们一起为911两周年举行宗教仪式。我们作为美国人应该怎么看他的到访？
Trimondi：坦白的讲，Da L LA MA有两张面孔。他在大乘佛教（Mahayana Buddhism）的律条下与西方接触，然后非常有技巧的吸收西方文化的最高价值和理想（基督教的，犹太的和人文主义的）。在他现在的美国之旅中，他会见了穆斯林Mohammed Ali(译者注：拳王阿里)，旧金山大学的Jesuits，来自共和党和民主党的政治领导人，然后还将会很自在地与麻省理工和哈佛的伦理学家与科学家们见面。
通过富于外交性的容忍，他赢得了不可知论者和毫无戒心的犹太人及基督徒的心。对这些人，他以和平主义者和人权运动家的腔调布道，谈及“山中布道”中关于 “同情，爱，和非暴力”的段子。几乎所有Da L LA MA在公共场合发布的演讲都非常的宽容，有人情味，和富于同情心。你只能同意。但是，在这张正义，慈善和友善的面具下，却有另一张面孔。这张面孔使人停下来深入的思考这个“和平主义者”的阴影。
Stephens：我明白你的意思。我记得曾出席他在1993年芝加哥的世界宗教大会的新闻发布会。我有些被他对一个记者问题的回答所震惊。这个问题是， “您曾研究过耶稣的一生和教诲吗？”他评论了三十年代的藏文圣经译本，然后说道，“我从这些书中学到了一些东西，但是我从我自己的朋友，Thomas Merton，那儿学到了更深刻的东西。”尽管这显示他和一个天主教徒有联系，但这也在当时显示他对耶稣或者圣经没有什么感觉的另一面。在你的第一本书《Da L LA MA的阴影》中，你能够从你在德国的经历说明你对他的“阴影面”和他对西方的攻掠(foray)的担心吗？
Trimondi：十四世Da L LA MA，西藏的神王，是密宗佛教的最高代表。密宗佛教建于公元8世纪。它作为佛教历史（始于公元五世纪的印度）的最后阶段，是基于仪式和魔法公式的。和其他宗教没有不同，它也有“壁橱里的骷髅”。但是它在西方作为客人，仔细地把这一点给掩盖了。佛教密宗是一种对精神，魔鬼，秘密的性交行为，神秘主义，精神控制，和权力崇拜的信仰。与每一个民主的习惯相反，现在的Da L LA MA在所有重要的国家决策上都求助于Nechung神谕，一个被蒙古战神附体的僧侣。
我们对于在华盛顿特区的国家大教堂举行的跨宗教仪式的最大忧虑，是西方天真的程度。在过去的25年，Da L LA MA不事声张地对西方成千上万的宗教新人举行着时轮大法（Kalachakra Tantra）这一古代密宗所有灌顶（initiation）方式中的最高形式，把密宗信仰，秘密的性交行为，和魔法仪式整合进他的宗教-政治世界观中。他继续秘密地传播着时轮的预言，预言一个无所不在的佛教统治--香巴拉(Shambhala)。在这个佛教统治之下，所有精神的和世俗的力量都集于一人- -世界皇帝（Chakravartin），而其他的宗教都不再存在。对于他的这种教诲，批评的声音越来越大。
Stephens：塞缪尔.亨廷顿, 哈佛大学战略研究院的院长，曾在他1993的文章《文明的冲突》中警告过，“人们最终关心的不是政治意识形态或经济利益。信仰和家庭，血缘和信念才是人们认同并为之战斗牺牲的东西。”如果按照这种看法，你对Da L LA MA在时轮大法中所宣扬的意识形态有何担心？
Trimondi：在时轮大法中，预言了一个佛教帝国的建立和佛教的军事力量对非佛教的宗教所发动的战争。这就是一种文明的冲突。《时轮大法典籍》（Shri Kalachakra I. 128-142）充满激情地详细描述了一种为佛教的香巴拉大军所拥有的超级杀伤性武器，这种武器将被用来对付“佛祖教诲（Dharma）的敌人”。
过去五年中，在德语国家里，喇嘛教的这些阴暗面已经引起了媒体中日渐增加的批评。去年，当Da L LA MA在澳大利亚举行时轮灌顶的时候，电台，电视，和平面媒体都有激烈的争论。国际著名的报纸Der Standard发布了一篇名为“Da L LA MA的武士仪式：时轮大法”（A Warrior Ritual with the Dalai Lama: The Kalachakra）的文章。德国的基督教知识分子周报Der Rheinische Merkur也发表了一篇文章：“在时轮大法中掩藏者什么？超级狂战士！”（What is hidden behind the Kalachakra Tantra? Supremely ferocious warriors!）
Stephens：谁是那些在《时轮大法典籍》中提到的非佛教徒敌人？我已经在佛教杂志《香巴拉之日》（Shambhala Sun）和《Tricycle》中看到了穿着军事制服的喇嘛们。我过去曾以为佛教是一种平和的信仰？
Trimondi：关于时轮的秘密典籍明确地把犹太教，基督教和伊斯兰教的领导人提出来作为佛教的敌人：亚当，Enoch，亚拉伯罕，摩西，耶稣，Mani, 默罕默德和Mahdi，并把他们描述为“邪恶的蛇的家族”（Shri Kalachakra I. 154）。那最终的，如审判日一般的战争（香巴拉战争）将以佛教徒的最后胜利而告终。官方的“时轮大法翻译”Alexander Berzin公开地把伊斯兰圣战（Jihad）的原则和香巴拉战争的原则相比较。正如伊斯兰的烈士信仰一样，在最后一战中死去的香巴拉武士将获得通向（佛教）天堂的通行证。
到现在为止，在某些佛教中心（例如已故的Chogyum Trungpa喇嘛的香巴拉训练中心）出现的军事场景还只有象征意义，但这些场景已被解读为对预言中伟大的香巴拉战争的一种精神准备。在某些喇嘛的想像中，所有时轮灌顶的参加者都有重生为香巴拉武士的可能性。他们将参加即将到来的末日大战。依据阶级，他们将成为普通士兵或者军官。某些血统的高级喇嘛已经被赋予未来的指挥职务。
Stephens：最近，新闻报道了在天主教和基督教的神职人员中发生的性虐待丑闻。我记得许多年以前，我们曾和位于西好莱坞的Dharmadhatu的成员谈过话。他们公开提到他们的创建者Osel Tenzin曾故意用艾滋病毒去感染Dharmadhatu的很多成员，他们还提到九个喇嘛在科罗拉多首府Boulder死去。我们为他们在此事上的脆弱无助感到震惊。很明显地，他们感到被严重的侵害了。我们还曾在西雅图遇见过另一个基督妇女。她一度是一个当地的西藏喇嘛的性伴侣。她被她的经历如此巨大地伤害，以至于她从不肯详细提起这些经历。在十月五日，在洛杉矶郡的美术馆将有一个西半球最大的密宗艺术展，“祝福之轮—佛教冥想艺术”。公众应该知道关于密宗佛教性行为的哪些危险？
Trimondi: 我们不应混淆密宗佛教中的性行为和一些喇嘛一般意义上的性虐待。一般意义上的性虐待在佛教社区中也是一个大问题。这些性虐待丑闻极大地震撼了佛教社区，尤其是当如Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche这样的著名宗教领袖也卷入其中时。Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche创建了科罗拉多的Naropa大学。他被指控与自己的女学生发生了性关系。1993年，21个西方的佛教教师与Da L LA MA在印度相会并发表了一封公开信谴责某些（佛教）教师“与学生发生错误的性行为，滥用酒精和药物，不适当地使用资金，和不恰当地使用权力。”他们敦促信徒们正面地反对并公布这些教师的不适当行为。
在欧洲这里，最广为人知并被广泛讨论的案例中包括苏格兰佛教徒琼.坎贝尔（June Campbell）。她的老师Kalu Rinpoche，一位受人尊敬的八十岁的老喇嘛曾对她有过性侵犯。英国报纸独立报(The Independent)曾在1999年2月10日刊登头条：“我是一个密宗性奴隶。”
但是坎贝尔在她自己自白性的书《空间的旅行者》中提到，对女性的性侵害不但是(喇嘛教)一种应该被我们谴责的态度，更是喇嘛教的核心。一个喇嘛对女性的性行为有着一个明确的目标：把女性的性能量传入男性伙伴的灵与肉中。这些性仪式是藏传佛教的核心。在时轮大法的更高级的灌顶仪式中，也可以看到带有魔法意味的性仪式。这些仪式的书面描述可以做象征性的解释，也可以做字面上的解释。两种都行。原文说11岁的女孩子可以用来作为性伴侣。
Stephens: 真是让人震惊！尤其是我们的社会有如此多的儿童性虐待发生在宗教界。我们还感到忧虑的是，在文化的旗号下，公共款项被用于宣传促进它（译者注：藏传佛教），尤其是在有许多孩子去参观这些展览的情况下。美国的另一个忧虑是新纳粹运动的兴起。据我了解，你们还合作写了另一本畅销书。这本书讲述了亚洲宗教对阿道夫.希特勒的基本意识形态的影响。显而易见，这在欧洲掀起了一场大辩论。这些争论的原因是什么？
Trimondi:在我们的历史性书籍《希特勒-佛祖-奎师那（Krishna）:一个从第三帝国到今天的不神圣的联盟》之中，我们揭示了党卫军的海因里希.希姆莱和其他一些著名的新纳粹分子都受到了不同的亚洲宗教的深刻影响。这些宗教包括吠陀教，佛教，和喇嘛教。我们还揭示了著名的德国禅师， Dürckheim 和 Herrigel都是虔诚的纳粹信徒。
真正让人吃惊的是，在“SS-Ahnenerbe”(党卫军的智库)，海因里希.希姆莱公开地与他那个时代最杰出的东方学家讨论建立一种新的印度-雅利安纳粹宗教。在二战后，这种讨论为主要的新纳粹主义分子所继续。我们的两本书激起了关于宗教原教旨主义的信仰源头和关于文明冲突的大辩论。
Stephens:我还记得在1996年，Simon Wiesenthal 宽容博物馆授予了Da L LA MA“Simon Wiesenthal和平奖”。当时，馆长将达赖称为“亚伦，我们的和平者。”从你对他和纳粹主义的联系的研究来看，犹太社区应该对什么感到担心？
Trimondi: 一个毋庸置疑的事实是时轮大法关于世界战争的意识形态于历史上已经在亚洲和宗教法西斯主义及新纳粹主义中导致了过激的行为，妄想，和阴谋论。在作为海因里希.希姆莱的纳粹宗教诞生地的SS-Ahnenerbe(党卫军的智库)，时轮大法的内涵曾引起人们浓厚的兴趣。著名的法西斯分子和文化哲学家 Julius Evola在神话般的香巴拉世界中看到了一个神圣的武士种族的中心地位。这种构想至今仍然在国际极右运动的宗教观念中占据了一席之地。光是这一条就足以要求Da L LA MA和鼓吹战争的香巴拉之谜保持清楚的距离。
但他不仅没有这样做，反而与诸如布鲁诺.伯格（Bruno Beger）和海因里希.哈尔（Heinrich Harrer）一类的人建立了友好的联系。其中布鲁诺.伯格是前党卫军，被定罪帮助谋杀了超过86个犹太人人；海因里希.哈尔是《西藏七年》的作者（《西藏七年》讲述了他和Da L LA MA在达赖流亡去印度之前的七年间的经历）。西藏流亡政府的网站显示了十四世Da L LA MA站在布鲁诺.伯格和海因里希.哈尔之间。伯格是著名的党卫军西藏探险队在1938-1939年间的成员。这个探险队的主要目的是在喜马拉雅山地区找到一个古代失落的印度-雅利安宗教的痕迹。党卫军中的一些头目相信西藏喇嘛们掌握着这一印度-雅利安之迷的关键。伯格作为西藏在上一世纪三十和四十年代的政治独立运动的主要见证人，被西藏流亡政府高度尊敬。
直到最近才被揭露的还有Da L LA MA和Jean Marquès-Rivière的联系。Jean Marquès-Rivière是法国著名的东方学家，时轮大法专家，坚定的反犹主义者。他因为与党卫军合作，将犹太人交给在法国的盖世太保而被缺席定罪，判为死刑。一个秘密的希特勒运动的创始人，前智利外交家Miguel Serrano也曾与Da L LA MA会晤过四次。Miguel Serrano是一个基于密宗和关于香巴拉武士的想法的极端种族主义社团的鼓吹者。
众所周知的还有他与日本恐怖分子麻原彰晃的联系。他把麻原彰晃描述为他的“朋友，尽管不完美”。这已经是在东京沙林毒气袭击之后。直到后来，他才与麻原彰晃疏远开来。麻原彰晃的末日论主要就是受到香巴拉意识形态和藏传密宗佛教的影响。
Stephens: 看起来这种关于意识形态的讨论正在全球范围内展开。对于我们这些在加州的人来说，如果联系到最近在加州对“终结者”施瓦辛格和奥地利前总理瓦尔德海姆的纳粹联系的攻击，这种讨论就变得很有关系了。但在深入调查之后，我们发现施瓦辛格实际上对犹太人大屠杀的教育纪念活动和Simon Wiesenthal宽容博物馆是最大的捐献者之一。相比之下，一旦了解到Da L LA MA和某些著名新纳粹分子的联系，我对Simon Wiesenthal宽容博物馆对Da L LA MA的毫无批评的接受就感到很担心。
Trimondi: 是的，犹太社区为什么能够对Da L LA MA如此毫无批评的面对让人震惊。瑞士报纸Neue Zürcher Zeitung在2003年九月四日曾经报道，这位西藏的宗教领袖在一次对耶路撒冷的访问中曾提到：
“希特勒本来也有成为一个好人的可能性。希特勒并非生来邪恶，是他对犹太人的仇恨使他充满了恶意。我们应该与这种仇恨做斗争，但这并不意味着在希特勒身上没有一丝善良在沉睡。一个邪恶的人明天也能成为一个好人。我们应该为此而战斗。”
如果这样的一种说法能够被理解为佛教博爱的一种表现的话，我们也应该想起因为希特勒的疯狂而被纳粹谋杀的六百万犹太人和数以百万计的战争牺牲品。如果是罗马教皇或者一个西方政治家对人类历史上最臭名昭著的大屠杀做这样一个带有同情味道的评论的话，在全世界将会有一轮抗议浪潮，尤其是这样的一个评论是在以色列作出的，一个许多大屠杀幸存者和他们的孩子们生活着的地方。
Stephens: 还有就是好莱坞关系。准确的讲，是什么让好莱坞对Da L LA MA产生如此巨大的吸引力？
Trimondi: 好莱坞电影是人类已知的最强有力的幻想。所以Da L LA MA与电影世界和著名演员的广泛而又广为人知的联系就是一个有效的宣传武器。自从九十年代以来，西藏，西藏神王和藏传佛教就被最有名的电影导演们所神化，而对于西藏被一个专制的僧侣贵族统治所绝对控制的封建制的和血腥的过去，哪怕是一点点的批评也被忽略不计了。
Bernardo Bertolucci的“小活佛”或者 Martin Scorsese的 “Kundun” 构造了一个虚幻的西藏，这个西藏从来都没有存在过。甚至美国电影里一直存在的反纳粹的传统也在Jean Jacques Annaud推出“西藏七年”的时候被打破了。这部由布拉德。皮特主演的电影是对前党卫军海因里希.哈尔的神化和英雄崇拜。哈尔在四十年代成为了年青的Da L LA MA的老师。 Orville Schell在他的《虚拟西藏》（2000）一书中详细描述了电影世界所制造的最有效的幻觉：好莱坞的西藏神话。
Stephens: 我还记得有一次在Simon Wiesenthal 宽容博物馆的和平奖颁奖仪式上遇到了理察.基尔。我发现他的基金会资助了在美国大陆各地修建的超过三百个沙做的曼荼罗（Mandala）。曼荼罗到底是什么？这些和尚们的曼荼罗展览除了作为艺术展览之外还有什么目的？我们为什么应对此感到担心？
Trimondi: 曼荼罗是一种神圣的图案；我们也可以把它叫做“魔力圆圈”。它被用来召唤密宗万神殿的神灵和魔鬼们。由于从现代西方的视角来看，宗教和艺术并非统一于一体，所以曼荼罗被视为一种艺术品。但是在喇嘛们的传统里，审美与神圣并没有区别，艺术总是神圣的艺术。相应的，曼荼罗被看作是一种灵塔，是神灵与魔鬼的汇聚点，是一种神殿，就象是一种精神电池，从其中可以发出强大的能量。在喇嘛们的观念中曼荼罗建立之地还被认为处于圣灵的绝对控制之下，或者我们也可以说，魔鬼“居住者”的绝对控制之下。
在时轮仪式中，繁复的曼荼罗是用彩色的沙建造的，并象征着整个宇宙。在仪式结束时，沙曼荼罗将会被西藏喇嘛们摧毁。对沙曼荼罗的所谓“拆卸”象征着整个世界和宇宙的毁灭。这是时轮预言中关于末日理论的一部分，这一末日理论预言了一场最终之战和我们星球的毁灭。然而，曼荼罗的建造和毁灭却被Da L LA MA包装成对世界和平的贡献。
尽管我们想要相信曼荼罗能够产生和平的能量，事实上我们却不得不接受在这一魔力圆圈在西方被建造起来超过25年之后，它并没有给人们带来比它在西藏给人们带来的更多的欢乐。在我们的世界中，激进的和恐怖主义的能量越来越多，越来越强。宗教的冲突已经成为政治中每天都见到的问题。难道还不显而易见，你提到的遍布美国的超过三百个的曼荼罗并没有给这个国家带来和平吗？与之相反的是，历史在朝相反的方向前进，正走在毁灭和战争的道路上。
我们在研究中不安的发现，在1993年世贸大楼遭到第一次炸弹袭击之后，一个时轮沙曼荼罗在一号楼的大厅里被建造起来。在超过三十天的过程中，许多世贸大楼的工作者和游客被西藏喇嘛们邀请参与这个曼荼罗的建造。当Da L LA MA在随后的几天中访问纽约的时候，我们想问：为什么911那样可怕的事件最终还是发生了，尽管世贸大楼被所谓的“和平之轮”这一时轮沙曼荼罗所庇佑着？别忘了这些同样的曼荼罗并没有保护西藏的7500个喇嘛庙不被摧毁。在这一背景下，时轮大法专家，印度学者Shashi Bhusan Dasgupta 的一句话就显得令人震惊了：“Kala意味着时间，死亡，和毁灭。Kala-Chakra（时轮），就是毁灭之轮。”
我们在互联网上找到了一个当年世贸大楼的时轮大法仪式的参加者的话，这些话看起来尤其泄露了天机：“话题转换到一号楼的时轮曼荼罗上。我当时也在降解仪式上，大概是96年。喇嘛们把所有的来自一号楼曼荼罗的沙都搜集起来，放入一个瓶子里面，然后把瓶子通过冬园（the Winter Garden）带过通向世界金融中心的桥，然后郑重地把沙倾入哈德迅大河之中，祈求世界和平。当时河面上闪烁着午日阳光的光芒，我不由得哭了。五年以后，整座大楼都消失了，就象沙曼荼罗一样。”
与此相反的是，Robert Thurman,“西藏事业的学术界教父”（时代杂志）做了一个梦（1979年九月）。梦中，Da L LA MA作为绝对的王和时轮之神统治了纽约。“在他（Da L LA MA）抵达纽约的前夜，我梦见他就在Waldorf Astoria大楼的楼顶上展示着时轮佛祖的曼荼罗宫殿。城市里各种各样的名人，市长们和参议员们，公司总裁和国王们，部落酋长们和苏丹们，名人和明星们 --他们都随着三座钻石大厦的722个神而舞蹈着，就象一群细小的蜜蜂聚集在一个巨大的蜂巢上一样。最让人吃惊的是，Da L LA MA的力量与美就如潮水般涌来，而他却毫不费力。我能感觉到这些力量与美的源泉，那就是他那宽广的心胸--平静，放松，充满了无限。”Thurman确实把这个梦作为了一个预言。
Stephens: 从你在欧洲关于时轮大法的辩论的经验和对媒体对西藏浪漫化的描述的观察来看，哪些是对其他信仰的危险，包括佛教和这个日渐流行的香巴拉神话。
Trimondi:藏传佛教，就如八十年代的“新时代运动”一样，成为了新千年的“时尚宗教。”但它远不止Da L LA MA的个人魅力和他关于同情，和平，和幸福的演讲。危险在于时轮大法的仪式为未来的“宗教战争”巧妙地提供了一个意识形态的基础。
如果这个古代信仰充满问题的内涵不被公开讨论的话，它们也许会在意识形态上对西方文明和民主制度的正面遗产提出危险的挑战。毫无疑问的，在时轮大法的意识形态中提到的佛教统治的确立，一个世界之神，暴力，杀戮的自由，和发动佛教圣战，都是与释迦牟尼佛祖最初的和平教诲背道而驰的。关于时轮大法的过激内容和最初的，由历史上的佛祖教诲的，和平的大乘佛教的不同，我们向Da L LA MA提出了八个问题。
Stephens: 关于Da L LA MA在奥运会之前回到中国的严肃讨论正渐渐见于媒体。这将如何影响西方的未来呢？
Trimondi: 我们真的感到很不安，如果你问我们，如果这种“佛教-圣战”的意识形态成为中国政治自我理解的一种新观点的话。更为和平温和的道家和儒家哲学会被这种“香巴拉武士教条”所取代吗？在三十年代，日本神道-法西斯分子曾用这个来动员满洲和中国西部的蒙古族少数民族。如果现在欧洲的形势是任何的指标的话，我们必须说，在我们目睹了德国的法西斯分子，新法西斯分子，和纳粹知识分子，以及亚洲的恐怖分子（如日本的麻原彰晃）对时轮大法的香巴拉战争理念日益增加的兴趣之后，我们充满了戒心。应该有一个“Menetekel”（译者注：源自圣经，指自动出现于墙上的文字，预言了古巴比伦帝国的灭亡），那一“墙上的文字” 来作为对西方的警钟。
下面是英文原版,原文来自 https://www.trimondi.de/EN/interv03.html
Dalai Lama and 9/11
An Interview with Victor and Victoria Trimondi (Germany)
By James C. Stephens
September 11, 2003
Stephens: This September 11 on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, the keynote speaker at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. was not the American evangelist Billy Graham, but Tenzin Gyatso, better known as the XIV Dalai Lama, the exiled God-King of Tibet. Accompanied by five Tibetan Lamas from his New York Monastery, he officially began with Buddhist ritual chanting followed by a talk to an audience of 7,000 on “Cultivating Peace as an Antidote to Violence.” Our interview today from Germany is with Victor and Victoria Trimondi, who previously worked to promote the Dalai Lama’s message in Europe. They are co-authors of a critical European bestseller entitled The Shadow of the Dalai Lama: Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. 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.
Stephens: Today, the Dalai Lama was warmly received by the Christian clergy of the National Cathedral who invited him as the keynote speaker and allowed him to perfom his religious rituals with several Tibetan Buddhist lamas on the second anniversary of September 11. How should we as Americans view his visit?
Trimondi: 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.”
Stephens: I understand what you mean. I recall attending his press conference at the 1993 Parliament of the World Religions in Chicago and being somewhat stunned by his response to a journalist’s question, “Have you studied the life and teachings of Jesus?” He commented about the Tibetan Bible translation in the 1930’s and then said, “I learned something reading these books, but I learned a more deeper way from my personal friend, the late Thomas Merton.” Although it revealed that he had a relationship with a Catholic, it also showed at that time another side to me that he didn’t have much feeling for Jesus or for the Bible. In light of your first book, The Shadow of the Dalai Lama, could you spell out your concerns about his “shadow side” and his forays into the West from your experiences in Germany?
Trimondi: The XIV 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 worldview. 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.
Stephens: Samuel Huntington, Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard warned in 1993 in his essay on The Clash of Civilizations that, “What ultimately counts for people is not political ideology or economic interest. Faith and family, blood and belief are what people identify with and what they will fight and die for.” In light of this what is your concern about the ideology that the Dalai Lama is promoting in the Kalachakra Tantra?
Trimondi: 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 Chögyum 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.
Stephens: Of late, the scandal of sexual abuse among Catholics and other Christian clergy has hit the news. I recall that a number of years ago, we spoke to members of Dharmadhatu in West Hollywood who openly mentioned that their founder Osel Tenzin had knowingly infected many of their members with the aids virus and that nine lamas had died in Boulder, Colorado. We were humbled by their vulnerability on the subject. They obviously felt terribly violated. Another Christian woman we met in Seattle who was formerly a sexual consort to a local Tibetan lama was so severely wounded by her experience that she would not even speak of it in detail. On October 5 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art an exhibit entitled, “The Circle of Bliss-Buddhist Meditational Arts” opens the largest Tantric Art exhibit in the Western Hemisphere. What should the public be aware of about the dangers of sexual practices of Tantric Buddhism?
Trimondi: The sexual practices of Buddhist Tantrism are not to be confused with normal sexual abuse by some Lamas. The latter also has been a great problem in the Buddhist communities, which were rocked by scandals caused by such prominent leaders as Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Colorado's Naropa University, who was accused of having sex with his women students. In 1993, 21 Western Buddhist teachers met the Dalai Lama in India and issued an open letter that lamented various teachers' ``sexual misconduct with their students, abuse of alcohol and drugs, misappropriation of funds and misuse of power.'' The group urged believers to confront teachers and publicize their misconduct.
Here in Europe, one of the most well known and discussed cases involved the Scottish Buddhist June Campbell and the attempt of her teacher, the most honorable eighty year old Lama Kalu Rinpoche, to misuse her sexually. The 10. February 1999 headline of the British newspaper The Independent read: “I was a Tantric sex slave.”
But Campbell shows also in her confessional book Traveller in Space that the sexual misuse of women is not only a blameable attitude but that it is a central part of the Lamaist Tantric religion. The sexual magic practice exercised by a Lama with a woman has the specific goal to transmit the erotic and female energy into the spiritual and worldly power of the male partner. Such sexual rituals are the core of Tibetan Buddhism. Also in the secret higher initiations of the Kalachakra Tantra sexual magical rites take place. The ritual texts can be interpreted symbolically or real (!). Both are possible. The originals say that eleven-year-old girls may be used as sexual partners.
Stephens: Shocking! Especially in our society where so much sexual abuse of children is being exposed in religious circles. That public money is being appropriated to promote this in the name of culture is of great concern, especially as many children go on field trips to these exhibits. Another concern in America has been the rise of the Neo-Nazi movement. I understand that you have since co-authored another bestseller on the influence of Asian religion on the foundational ideology of Adolph Hitler. Evidently, this has unleashed quite a debate in Europe. What’s the cause of the controversy?
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-Dürckheim & 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 civilisations.
Stephens: I recall attending the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in 1996 when the Dalai Lama was awarded “The Simon Wiesenthal Peace Prize” and the director equated him with “Aaron, our man of peace.” What should the Jewish community be concerned about in light of your research on his connections with Nazism?
Trimondi: It is a fact that the Shambhala War Ideology of the Kalachakra-Tantra has led to aggressive behaviour, 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 centre 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.
Nearly unknown until now are the contacts of the Dalai Lama with the French SS-collaborator, convinced anti-Semite, recognised Orientalist and Kalachakra Tantra Expert Jean Marquès-Rivière (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.
Stephens: It seems that this ideological discussion is being raised globally. For us in California, it is quite relevant in light of the California recall and recent political attack on “Terminator” candidate Schwarznegger’s Austrian Nazi connections with Waldheim. But after probing more deeply we understand that he’s actually one of the largest contributors to Holocaust Awareness education and the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance. I was concerned however, about the uncritical acceptance of the Dalai Lama at that ceremony, understanding some of the connections he has with prominent Neo-Nazis.
Trimondi: Yes, it is astonishing why the Jewish Community is so uncritical vis-à-vis the Dalai Lama. On 09.04.03 the Swiss Newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported, that the Tibetan religious leader said on a journey in Jerusalem,
Hitler would also have the potential of a good man in himself. Hitler was not born as a wicked man, his hatred of the Jewish people made him malicious and this hatred must be battled. But this doesn’t mean that there was not also lying dormant some Goodness in Hitler. A wicked man can be tomorrow a good man, said the Dalai Lama. For this we have to fight.
Also if such a statement can be interpreted as an expression of Buddhist compassion, it seems tasteless remembering the murdering of six million Jews by the Nazis and the death of millions and millions of war victims on the account of Hitler’s madness. There would be a worldwide protest, if for example the Pope or a Western statesman made such a sympathetic remark on the most prominent mass murderer in human history, especially if such a remark is done in Israel, where many survivors of the Holocaust and their children are living.
Stephens: And then there’s the Hollywood connection. Exactly, what is so attractive to the Dalai Lama about Hollywood?
Trimondi: Hollywood films are the most powerful vectors of fantasy ever known to humankind. So the extensive and well known connection of the Dalai Lama with the film world and with famous actors and actresses is certainly an effective propaganda instrument. Since the nineties, Tibet, the Tibetan God King and Tibetan Buddhism have been glorified by the most prominent film-directors, neglecting even a minimum of critique of Tibet’s feudalistic and bloody past controlled by a despotic monk aristocracy with absolute power.
Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Little Buddha” or Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun” are constructions of a virtual Tibet, which never did exist. Even the ancient anti-Nazi tradition of the American film-fabric was broken, when Jean Jacques Annaud brought out “Seven years in Tibet”. This film with Brad Pitt is a mystification and hero worship of the former SS-man Heinrich Harrer who in the forties became the teacher of the young Dalai Lama. In his book Virtual Tibet (2000) Orville Schell details the “incredible” story of one of the most effective delusions in the film world: The Tibet Fantasies of Hollywood.
Stephens: I remember running into Richard Gere at the Wiesenthal Museum Peace Prize presentation and discovered that his Foundation has financed the building of over 300 sand Mandalas throughout the continental US. What exactly is a sand Mandala? Do these Monk’s Mandala tours have some other purpose than an art display? Why should we be concerned?
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 modern 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 coloured 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.”
In contrary to this, Robert Thurman, the “academic godfather of the Tibetan cause” (Time Magazine) saw a dream (September 1979) the Dalai Lama as an absolute King and Kalachakra God reigning New York City. “The night before he [the Dalai Lama] landed in New York, I dreamed he was manifesting the pure land mandala palace of the Kalachakra Buddha right on top of the Waldorf Astoria building. The entire collection of dignitaries of the city, mayors and senators, corporate presidents and kings, sheikhs and sultans ,celebrities and stars—all of them were swept up into the dance of 722 deities of the three buildings of the diamond palace like pinstriped bees swarming on a giant honeycomb. The amazing thing about the Dalai Lama’s flood of power and beauty was that it appeared totally effortless. I could feel the space of His Holiness’s heart, whence all this arose. It was relaxed, cool, an amazing well of infinity” Thurman did interpret this dream as a prophecy.
Stephens: From your experience in the Kalachakra Debate in Europe and your observation of mass media’s romantic portrayal of Tibet, what are the potential dangers to other faiths, including Buddhism and democracy of this growing Shambhala myth?
Trimondi: Tibetan Buddhism, like the New Age of the eighties appears to be the “trendy religion” of the new millennium. But it is much more than the charismatic appearance of the Dalai Lama and his speeches about compassion, peace and happiness. The danger lies in that the Kalachakra Tantra ritual subtlety builds an ideological foundation for a future “war of religions.” If the problematic contents of this archaic belief are not openly discussed, they may present a dangerous ideological challenge to the positive legacy of Western Civilization and Democratic institutions. There is also no doubt that the Kalachakra ideology proposing the establishment of Buddhocratic rule, a universal Emperor (Chakravartin) , violence, the licence to kill and the waging of a Buddhist holy war are in direct opposition to the original peaceful teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha. Concerning this discrepancy between the aggressive contents of the Kalachakra Tantra and the original peaceful Dharma, taught by the historic Buddha, we have formulated Eight Questions to the Dalai Lama.
Stephens: Serious talks of the Dalai Lama’s return to China before the Olympics are beginning to leak into the media. How will this impact the future of the West?
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 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.
“The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism” (1999) is available online in English and “Hitler – Buddha – Krishna – an Unholy Alliance from the Third Reich to Today” (2002) is also a German Bestseller and is being translated into English.
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