THREE ‘LIVING’ PANCHEN LAMAS? One tenth and two eleventh Panchen Lamas, the natural ‘karmic’ result of a politically motivated (and violently imposed) Tibetan tulku lineage?

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. So who's really the insane ones in this situation?" --Albert Einstein While I was in Lijiang, Yunnan recently I noted there were many photos of the Chinese recognized 11th Panchen Lama, Chokyi Gyalpo in all the monasteries, including… Continue reading THREE ‘LIVING’ PANCHEN LAMAS? One tenth and two eleventh Panchen Lamas, the natural ‘karmic’ result of a politically motivated (and violently imposed) Tibetan tulku lineage?

KĀLACAKRA AND THE DALAI LAMAS/GELUGPA. The 20th Century/Chinese communist roots of mass Kālacakra empowerments; the 9th Panchen Lama and Chinese support for the first public empowerments , the 14th Dalai Lama’s takeover of Kālacakra in Tibet and exile, inappropriate timing of the empowerments and the Gelugpa’s mass suppression of other lineages and texts

“The first Kālacakra initiation that was given to large diverse public audiences outside of Tibet was conducted not by the 14th  Dalai Lama, but by the 9th  Panchen Lama at the turn of the twentieth century. Nine such Kālacakra initiations were given by the Ninth Panchen Lama from 1928 to 1936.” --Daigengna Duoer (2018) “The purpose of… Continue reading KĀLACAKRA AND THE DALAI LAMAS/GELUGPA. The 20th Century/Chinese communist roots of mass Kālacakra empowerments; the 9th Panchen Lama and Chinese support for the first public empowerments , the 14th Dalai Lama’s takeover of Kālacakra in Tibet and exile, inappropriate timing of the empowerments and the Gelugpa’s mass suppression of other lineages and texts