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Buddhism? (3) 25 April 2008 Is Tibetan
Lamaism Buddhism? (1) - A Culture of Black Magic The original name of the 14th Dalai Lama is Lhamo Dhondup. According to the official description by Dalai’s Tibetan government-in-exile, when Reting Lama led his searching group located Lhamo Dhondup as the potential candidate of the reincarnated Dalai Lama, the boy wanted a string of chanting beads held in the Lama’s hand. The beads were said to be left by the 13th Dalai Lama. Reting Lama asked the boy, “Do you know who we are?” The boy allegedly replied in authentic Lhasa dialect, “You are lamas from Sera Monastery!”
In fact, at the time the boy could not speak Tibetan at all, and the daily language of his family is Han Chinese with thick western rural accent. German researcher on Tibetan Culture Matthias Hermanns happened to be in the area during that period and he personally knew the Lhamo family who lived in China‘s Qinghai Province. He remembered when he asked the boy what his name was, he answered: “Qi (祁)！” [1] After the boy became the 14th Dalai Lama, the 5th Reting Lama became Dalai’s first teacher and the regent of Tibetan local government until 1941 when Reting handed over power to another senior lama Taktra Rinpoche. But before long, Reting Lama decided to take the power back, and enlisted the assistance of Dalai Lama’s father Choekyong Tsering. The power seize attempt failed however, Dalai Lama's father soon died when having his meal. Dalai’s brother Gyalo Dhondup always insisted that their father was killed by poisoning and the Taktra's Tibetan government was behind the murder. [2] When the news of Choekyong's death reached Reting Lama, he organized a military coup, yet which was also failed, and Reting Lama was arrested by Taktra Rinpoche. A riot eruppted in the Sera Monastery. The lamas killed their abbot, the confidante of Taktra Rinpoche, and under the leadership of 18-year old Tsenya Rinpoche - a reincarnated demonic deity Dharma Pala - marched into Lhasa and trid to break into the Budara Palace. Taktra Rinpoche ordered his army to bombard his rivals with canons and over two hundred lamas were exploded into pieces. [3] After the rescue effort crushed, in the basement prison of Budara Palace, Reting Lama endued the endless torture, and eventually died after his testicles were crumbled in his torment's stronger hand. Another high official collaborated with him had his eyeballs pressed out from their sockets and severed off by a knife. [1] Matthias Hermanns： Mythen und Mysterien. [2] Mary Craig:Kundun, a biogrphy
of the family [3] Melvyn Goldstein, A history of modern, Tibet 1913-1951.The Demise of the Lamaist state, Berkely, 1989 Is Lamaism
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