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Free Tibet to theocratic feudalism?
04.08.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

No matter how cute and goofy the Dalai Lama is, the Tibet his predecessors ran was a theocratic feudal society. I’m not certain that the Daiai Lama isn’t a democrat, but I don’t remember him ever advocating for a Tibetan democracy. Tibetan Buddhism certainly isn’t democratic. (If there is anything out there connecting the Tibetan […]
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Is the Dalai Lama really Kenny?
10.21.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

So I was at a ground blessing1 this morning with the Dalai Lama at Emory. Goofy guy, it turns out. After a bit of going on about religion and politics and history, he pauses to say, “But of course the most important thing is that I will become an Emory professor tomorrow…a hopeless professor.” The […]
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Tibet: No religious utopia here
08.07.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Tibet: No religious utopia here

Will Shetterly links to a piece detailing the feudal atrocities of Tibet under the Dalai Lamas.Â (Also links on the Hindu Caste system, the Crusades, and Saudi Arabia.)