The Dalai Lama's Secret Life

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Peace and Love? Not So Much...

The Dalai Lama is the head of Tibet's largest – but by no means only – Buddhist sect to which more than half of all Tibetans claim allegiance. His role combines the functions of Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury and the pretender to a contested medieval throne.

His personal history is fascinating. He applied, for example, to join the Chinese Communist Party, was the largest slave-owner on earth, and was – like most Dalai Lamas before him – the tool of a powerful class of feudal nobility who, between them, owned 90% of Tibet's arable land.

The nobility, knowing their their authority ended if they honored their treaty with China to free their slaves, opted instead to flee. They took with them the nation's gold reserves, thus utterly impoverishing a desperately poor country. Though his life was never in danger the nobles told him that it was and thus managed to make off with the symbol of their legitimacy, the Dalai Lama. He continues to serve their interests today, earning
over $100 million in CIA support since his flight. Many evil deeds have been done in his name since that day. To get good men like the Dalai Lama to do bad things requires religion, as Steven Weinberg observed.

You can read more in The Snow Lion and the Dragon, by Professor Melvyn Goldstein. Below is a the story of yet another episode in the Dalai Lama's life.

Dalai Lama connected with CIA's support of Tibetan secession: media report English.news.cn   2012-06-26 21:06:55 CIA's Tibetan Parachutists in Training BERLIN, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Despite his frequent claims of peace, the Dalai Lama knew much more about the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s support of Tibetan secessionists in the 1950s and 1960s than he admitted, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported recently. A report titled "Seemingly Sacred," which shed light on the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the CIA, said a shadow of violence falls on the divine king. The report said an emissary of the Dalai Lama first contacted the U.S. through its embassy in New Delhi and consulate in Calcutta in 1951, and both sides discussed U.S. military and financial aid to Tibetan separatists. One of the Dalai Lama's elder brothers also attended the meetings. In the same year the U.S. Defense Department gave the Dalai Lama a letter, in which "light weapons" and "financial aid" were promised to the Tibetan separatist movement, it said. The Dalai Lama also received 180,000 U.S. dollars a year from the CIA, which was described as "monetary aid for the Dalai Lama" in confidential documents. The report said the CIA launched "St. Circus Operation" in 1956, which trained Tibetan guerrillas on a South-Pacific island to kill, shoot, lay mines and make bombs. The CIA also made air drops that provided the guerrillas with machine weapons, ammunition, medicine, and propaganda materials, among others, it said. According to the newspaper, "The Dalai Lama clearly stood closer to the CIA and knew significantly more than he let on." Though the Dalai Lama had always claimed that he only came to know the operations afterwards, it should be no later than 1958 when he was aware of the paramilitary training given by the CIA that was closely linked to poison, killing and other violent acts, it said. The report said a U.S. movie director, Lisa Cathey, had conducted more than 30 interviews in her shooting of a documentary, CIA in Tibet. One of those interviewed was a retired CIA agent named John Kenneth Knaus, who was in charge of CIA operations in Tibet and had preserved documents that recorded the training. The Dalai Lama had met with Knaus twice, once in 1964 and again in the 1990s. The Dalai Lama apparently hasn't been honest on whether he knew the CIA's support to the Tibetan separation, the paper said. Now that with more truth on the Dalai Lama's relationship with the CIA revealed, a shadow of violence falls on the divine king, it added. The report called the Dalai Lama "a chess piece of the CIA during the Cold War" and his direct CIA connection does not match his "supreme moral authority." And here's a letter from a Tibetan Lama which makes you wonder whether His Holiness and the exiled Tibetan nobility who surround him are 100% into peace & love... And a National Geographic quote: Lamaism is the state religion of Tibet and its power in the Hermit Country is tremendous. Religion dominated every phase of life. … For instance, in a family of four sons, at least two, generally three, of them must be Lamas. Property and family prestige also naturally go with the Lamas to the monastery in which they are inmates. "Keeping the common people or laymen, in ignorance is another means of maintaining the power of the Lamas. Nearly all of the laymen (serfs) are illiterate. Lamas are the only people who are taught to read and write. October 1912 National Geographic Magazine, page 979.