I presumed this was already well-known ‘round these parts. A few datapoints:
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1646276285176397825
Dalai Lama History of Controversy:
• 2009 he was paid $1 million to do a speech hosted by Sex Trafficking Cult NXIVM- a cult that trafficked women and young girls.
• Has an estimated net worth of $150 million despite Buddhist monks traditionally owning no material possessions.
• Recent video shows him kissing a young Indian boy and asking him to “suck my tongue”
• Sparked controversy in 2015 for objectifying women by saying the next person to succeed him must be a “very attractive” woman or she would be of “not much use”.
Sources: Indian Express, The Independent, Daily Mail
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1290854496755621895Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz
I used to think it odd that the Dalai Lama has nothing to offer but vapid kindergarten pop spirituality, then I learned he was a well-paid CIA agent for many years.
https://nybooks.com/daily/2013/04/09/ci ... war-tibet/
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David Ferguson
@DavidLiFerguson
Aug 5, 2020
Caitlin you must get a hold of the book that info comes from: "Orphans of the Cold War". In the 1950s and 60s John Kenneth Knaus was in charge of what would now be called CIA psyops in Tibet. His book is a gold mine of information on US and CIA activity in Tibet over that period.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/11689625 ... ongue-kiss
The Dalai Lama apologizes for asking a young boy to suck his tongue
APRIL 10, 202310:16 AM ET
The Dalai Lama has apologized for kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to "suck my tongue" after a video of the incident sparked outrage on social media.
The 87-year-old Buddhist priest "regrets the incident" and wishes to apologize to "the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused," according to a statement published by his office on Monday.
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
by Michael Parenti
July 7, 2003
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The émigrés' plight received fulsome play in the West and substantial support from U.S. agencies dedicated to making the world safe for economic inequality. Throughout the 1960s the Tibetan exile community secretly received $1.7 million a year 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 1960s to send armed squads of exiles into Tibet to undermine the Maoist revolution. The Dalai Lama's annual share was $186,000, making him a paid agent of the CIA. Indian intelligence also financed him and other Tibetan exiles. (43) He has refused to say whether he or his brothers worked with the CIA. The agency has also declined to comment. (44)
While presenting himself as a defender of human rights, and having won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, the Dalai Lama continued to associate with and be advised by aristocratic émigrés and other reactionaries during his exile. In 1995, the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer carried a frontpage color photograph of the Dalai Lama being embraced by the reactionary Republican senator Jesse Helms, under the headline "Buddhist Captivates Hero of Religious Right." (45) In April 1999, along with Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and the first George Bush, the Dalai Lama called upon the British government to release Augusto Pinochet, the former fascist dictator of Chile and a longtime CIA client who had been apprehended while visiting England. He urged that Pinochet be allowed to return to his homeland rather than be forced to go to Spain where he was wanted by a Spanish jurist to stand trial for crimes against humanity.
Today, mostly through the National Endowment for Democracy and other conduits that are more respectable-sounding than the CIA, the US Congress continues to allocate an annual $2 million to Tibetans in India, with additional millions for "democracy activities" within the Tibetan exile community. The Dalai Lama also gets money from financier George Soros, who now runs the CIA-created Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other institutes. (46)
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https://archive.ph/oZ6di
Etc etc.
