Random Gaijin Shot of the Day - Part 2

That picture is for real!! Where did it come from? Great propaganda coup for the Chinese government if true. I wonder who holds the record for the most unappropriate buddy photos, George Bush I, John Paul II, or the Dalai Lama?

by **Taro Toporific** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:59 am

dimwit wrote:That picture is for real!! Where did it come from?

The Dalai Lama in 1982, granted several audiences to, and received a donation of more than $1 million from Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult.

His material highness
SALON | July 13, 1998, by Christopher Hitchens
....here are some other facts about the serene leader that... are still worth knowing and still generally unknown.
* Shoko Asahara, leader of the Supreme Truth cult in Japan and spreader of sarin nerve gas on the Tokyo subway, donated 45 million rupees, or about 170 million yen (about $1.2 million), to the Dalai Lama and was rewarded for his efforts by several high-level meetings with the divine one.
* Steven Seagal, the robotic and moronic "actor" who gave us "Hard to Kill" and "Under Siege," has been proclaimed a reincarnated lama and a sacred vessel or "tulku" of Tibetan Buddhism. This decision, ratified by Penor Rinpoche, supreme head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, was initially received with incredulity by Richard Gere, who had hitherto believed himself to be the superstar most favored. "If someone's a tulku, that's great," he was quoted as saying. "But no one knows if that's true." How insightful, if only accidentally. At a subsequent Los Angeles appearance by the Dalai Lama, Seagal was seated in the front row and Gere two rows back, thus giving the latter's humility and submissiveness a day at the races. Suggestions that Seagal's fortune helped elevate him to the Himalayan status of tulku are not completely discounted even by some adepts and initiates.
* Supporters of the Dorge Shugden deity -- a "Dharma protector" and an ancient object of worship and propitiation in Tibet -- have been threatened with violence and ostracism and even death following the Dalai Lama's abrupt prohibition of this once-venerated godhead. A Swiss television documentary graphically intercuts footage of His Holiness, denying all knowledge of menace and intimidation, with scenes of his followers' enthusiastically promulgating "Wanted" posters and other paraphernalia of excommunication and persecution.
* While he denies being a Buddhist "Pope," the Dalai Lama is never happier than when brooding in a celibate manner on the sex lives of people he has never met. "Sexual misconduct for men and women consists of oral and anal sex," he has repeatedly said in promoting his book on these matters. "Using one's hand, that is sexual misconduct." But, as ever with religious stipulations, there is a nutty escape clause. "To have sexual relations with a prostitute paid by you and not by a third person does not constitute improper behavior." Not all of this can have been said just to placate Richard Gere, or to attract the royalties from "Pretty Woman."...more...

The Shadow of the Dalai Lama
The doomsday guru Shoko Asahara and the XIV. Dalai Lama
Part II –]
....Asahara was not a complete nobody for the god-king. According to the German magazine, Stern, they had met five times since 1987 (Stern 36/95, p. 126). Amazingly, weeks after the first poison gas attack, His Holiness still called the guru a “friend, although not necessarily a perfect one” (Stern 36/95, p. 126). Then a document from 1989 came to light in which the Kundun thanked the AUM sect for donations and confirmed that they “encouraged public awareness through religious and social activities” (Focus 38/95, p. 114). On January 21, 1989 Asahara had sent the sum of $100,000 to Dharamsala for the assistance of Tibetan refugees. As a kind of service in return he received an official note from the Council for religious and cultural affairs of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in which one can read: “To the best of our knowledge, AUM attempts to promote public well-being through various religious and social activities, for example through instruction in Buddhist doctrines and yoga” (Focus 38/95, p. 116–117).
On February 8, Asahara wrote back: “It is my fervent wish that Tibet will return to the hands of the Tibetans in the near future. I am willing to do whatever I can to be of help” (Shimatsu, I). The Japanese guru’s gratitude is only too easy to understand, then with the aforementioned note in his hand he succeeded in being recognized as a religious body by the Japanese administration and thus exempt from taxes.....[url=http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Part-2-13.htm]...more...

British journalist Christopher Hitchens wrote a scathing criticism[23] of the Dalai Lama in 1998, which questioned his alleged support for India's nuclear weapons testing, the "selling of indulgences" to Hollywood celebrities like Richard Gere and Steven Seagal, and his statements condoning prostitution. He accepted a large donation from Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan, who was responsible for the release of sarin nerve gas on a Tokyo subway, though this occurred long before Asahara instigated the attack.

by **Mulboyne** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:26 am

by **Mulboyne** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:27 pm

The short gallery of New Trier High School Students at Summer School in Japan 2005 has some great FG images. Looks like they had a good time.

by **Greji** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:04 am

by **jingai** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:32 am

Why? Richard Gere didn't gas anybody. Guess you don't like his films?

by **Greji** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:27 am

jingai wrote:Why? Richard Gere didn't gas anybody. Guess you don't like his films?

His films are okay, I just don't like him off the screen!

by **Taro Toporific** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:11 pm

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by **Mulboyne** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:43 pm

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Random Gaijin Shot of the Day - Part 2

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