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Hervé
16th November 2014, 15:08
Tibetan Buddhism - A Racket Posing as Religion (http://henrymakow.com/2014/11/tibetan-buddhism-is-a-racket.html)

November 14, 2014


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("He's a wolf in sheep's robes, like the pope." )


When Richard looked into Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in America, he recognized the characteristics of a mind controlled cult.

by Richard
(henrymakow.com)

Tibetan Buddhism is a cult - a tax exempt 'sweat shop', 'company store' racket using religion as a cover.

They were permitted to experiment with social engineering to see if American hippies could be turned into willing coolies.

As you may know, Maurice Strong and his wife bought thousands of acres for these Tibetan projects. The Strong's pet hobby was manufacturing the new one world religion. The Dalai Lama was their creative director.

The Dalai Lama the rest of the elite tulkus and their entourage of 80,000 escaped to asylum in the Indian Himalayas.

After years of denial, it was confirmed in 1998 that the CIA had provided at least $1.7 million (http://henrymakow.com/2013/09/the-dalai-lama-a-CIA.html)annually to his foundations since 1959. It is suspected the CIA played a part in the revolt against the Chinese that forced him to flee when it failed. Since the 60's, he dispatched hundreds of Tuklus and thousands of lamas to establish monasteries learning centers in the United States, UK and Commonwealth countries. There are several in Canada, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.


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These centers keep a low profile, they recruit through word-of-mouth within the trendy, upscale American 'new age' network. You're not likely to be aware they exist unless you're heavily into yoga classes and drive a hybrid. The monasteries are off the radar, buried deep in mountain forests, but they are on hundreds acres of land. They grow their own food, do their own construction, generate their own power. They are 'off the grid' as much as possible.

Each monastery is presided by a Tulku, the reincarnation of his predecessor all the way back through a lineage of semi-divine lamas. The Tulku's entourage is a company or Tibetan lamas, who manage and run the place. Finally, labor is supplied by volunteers who've signed a contract to work at the Monastery for at least one year, in return for Tibetan monastic training.

PERSONAL ENCOUNTER
In 2001 I had a two major shocks in a row that sent me into a period of depression. Namely, 911 - which Hunter Thompson called Americas' 'national nervous breakdown'. Then my estranged girlfriend died in an accident in another state in December.

During spring 2002 I was going to counseling every week, and the shrink asked me if I'd like to get away for a while in a Tibetan monastery. I was a professional art metalworker, and the place needed volunteers to do the metalwork on the Tulka's reproduction of an 10th century bronze temple in Tibet. Supposedly this Tulku had overseen the building of the original, nine centuries ago.

At first, it sounded like a wonderful opportunity. I had just entered middle age. twenty years earlier in college, I'd done Transcendental Meditation, read all of Alan Watts books, as well as "Ram Das" (Richard Alpert). I had taken a year of Buddhism and Hinduism in college. I'd been curious about Tibetan Buddhism, so I went straight to the video store and rented 'Kundun', 'Seven Years in Tibet', and "The Tibetan Book of the Dead".

Also, I found the California monastery on the website and downloaded the volunteer form, filled it out and mailed it to Berkley, California. A week later I got a call from a woman with a Brooklyn heights Jewish accent. She seemed friendly at first. After asking about background and interest, she described the monastery and what they were doing. It's a 1000 square acre tract of prime woodland on the California coast in the Sonoma redwood forest. To the south is the location of the famous Bohemian Grove.

To the north and East were ashrams of Indian origin, interlaced with smaller communes or various cults.

I asked, "Sound interesting. When can I come out and visit the place?" At that point her tone changed abruptly. "There are no tours. You will stay here at our Berkeley center for two weeks orientation, and then you'll be taken to [the ashram].

We require a commitment of at least one year. We prefer two."


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Then she proceeded to describe the itinerary. Volunteers live 20 people to a barracks. Wake up for meditation at 4am, vegan breakfast in silence, then to work at dawn. Work is 12 hours, then meditation, and lights out at 9pm. Work days are Monday through Saturday. Sunday begins with 8 hours farm work. Finally you get three hours 'free time', when you're allowed to walk around the gardens. No phones no internet. I think they allowed 10 minutes public phone time if you're willing to spend your only free time for the week standing in line to make a call.

When I heard all this I recognized serious symptoms of mind control cults:

Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.
No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.
No way to leave without permission and means of transportation.
Deprived of private means of communication with the outside world
'Cloistered', cut off from family and friends.
No visitation

So next I pulled up a number of 'Cult Awareness' websites. To my surprise none of them would touch Tibetan Buddhism - or any other powerful international religious body for that matter. It seems if you're big enough, and connected enough, you can do all the above but somehow not be a 'cult'.

I don't agree. For more information see here: Tibetans escape from Northern California center. (https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan/MsGCkCma6AY)

"It was like escaping from the Chinese all over again".

In 2012 the same place brought down lawsuits from their more influential neighbors.

'Retreat center's expansion plans provoke concern' (http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/06/07/retreat-centers-expansion-plans-provoke-concern/)

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First Comment by MF:
I work for a fence company and can confirm that theses Buddhist monasteries exist and new ones are built. I have received a couple few phone calls over the years.

They are in remote locations and they require 10' fences!

When I asked what threat they were trying to keep out, they said that they are to keep the monks in. They have a 2 year period where they can't leave and the 10' fence is to make sure of that. The area where they were building was rocky and windy so I tried to bring the height down to 8' being we wouldn't have to penetrate the ground as much in the rocky terrain. But the answer was no, that is not tall enough because some of them really try to escape.

True story, I remembered this because it made me wonder what was going on there.


David Livingstone writes:
Read my article, The Occult Secrets of the Dalai Lama. (http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/blog/occult-secrets-dalai-lama#.VGdlnZPF8Xg) It might seem complicated, but that's only a tiny portion of the larger story, which has taken me 600 pages to detail. My book (http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/) is about fascism, which is an outgrowth of synarchist, but the Dalai Lama is central to that story.

It starts with Blavatsky who believed that Tibetan Buddhism was the purest survival of Central Asian Shamanism, which she connected with Shambhala, the seat of her purported Great White Brotherhood of "Ascended Masters."

But the office of the Dalai Lama was central to the Great Game. And it starts with Papus, another leading light of the occult revival, and his synarchist network in St. Petersburg, and Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff also went by the name of Lama Dorjieff, chief tutor of the Dalai Lama XIII.

Gurdjieff was connected to Karl Haushofer, and there is the origin of the Nazi interest in Tibet, and involved their connection with a mysterious society of lamas known as the Society of the Green Dragon, which involved Jewish mystic spies like Jan Hanussen and Trebitsch-Lincoln.

That is the beginning of their association with the current Dalai Lama.

This is also the reason for the DL continuing relationship with Neo-Nazis, primarily Miguel Serrano, who was the leading representative of what is called Esoteric Hitlerism, which regarded Hitler as an avatar of Vishnu, and that he survived WWII to head a fleet of UFOs flying in and out of the earth's core from the south pole.

Ryan counters Dan:
As a long term westerner Buddhist practitioner in Sri Lanka, S.E. Asia, Thailand, Japan, USA, Germany and Switzerland I would like to stress I am a CRITICAL Buddhist practitioner, I have seen over the last over 30 years more than a few circumstances in Buddhist circles which deserve criticism/rectification. However I find it interesting that several of the criticisms of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism recently published/referred to at henrymakow.com are coming from exactly the circles which I over the last few decades have become the most wary of and therefore question their motives.

The author's story I find is more telling of the American situation rather than that of Tibetan Buddhism.

I personally have not been to Uddiyana nor do I know anyone from there so I cant comment directly on any of the circumstances there. However I would ask the objective reader to consider to what extent the hearsay report of one person about a temple he didn't even visit can be applied to a worldwide religion with millions of adherents.

I would like to point out that sometimes when exotic religions come to the west it is the case that a few western zealots take control of a good thing and let their ego get out of control and spoil the whole thing for everyone. I am not saying that this is the case at Oddiyana but I can highly suggest the book "Monkey on a Stick" about the Hare Krishna movement to document this phenomenon. Come to think of it some Christian groups arent all that different...

Shouldn't you Americans use this article to question your own situation and motives?

The feeling of hopelessness which motivates resignation and escapism!

The interest of Maurice Strong i.e. the Illuminati on influencing various religion I also find alarming. I would like to point out that it is not only Tibetans Buddhists which have temples in Crestone, Colo. See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crestone,_Colorado

Henry, I would like to point out that including the Dalai Lamas image is completely inapropriate. Oddiyana is in the Nyingma Order and the Dalai Lama is in the Gelugpa Order. The Dalai Lama has no influence over Oddiyana. Also the image of Theravada Buddhist monks is completely out of context.

May I suggest that those in the future who would like to publish articles of this type (Mud Slinging) take a deep look into their own motivation.

ulli
16th November 2014, 15:31
I would like to clarify that any statement which claims that Gurdjieff and Lama Dordjieff were the same person is false.

Dordjiev:
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Source: Alexandre Andreyev, Soviet Russia and Tibet: The Debacle of Secret Diplomacy, 1918-1930s, Brill (Leiden 2003), p. 361:
"In January 1937, Dorzhiev, accompanied by his attendant, Lama Dugar Jimbiev, left Leningrad for Buryatia. There he hoped to spend his last days in a solitary retreat as Buddhist monks do, in his house at the medical school of the Atsagat Datsang, near Verkneudinsk. However his hopes were not to be fulfilled. On 13 November the Buryat was arrested in his home and put into prison in Verkheudinsk. He was accused of high treason (spying for Japan), terrorist and subversive activities, preparation of armed rebellion, and several more anti-Soviet crimes. Two weeks later, shortly after his one and only interrogation, Dorzhiev was taken to a hospital ward. There, on January 29, 1938, he died."

Meanwhile Gurdjieff died in Paris in October of 1949, and I personally met someone who was with him just before his death;
Picture of Gurdjieff:
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While I have no doubt that any world leader who becomes a mainstream media darling (like the Dalai Lama) ought to be questioned and investigated, I also would like to point out that the final chapter is yet to be revealed.

As far as I'm concerned all devotees have some rough lessons to learn, such as a friend of mine who organised visits from Tibetan lamas to Costa Rica and who was raped by one of them. The incidence helped to free her from all New Age agendas once and for all, so it wasn't all bad.

Michael Moewes
16th November 2014, 19:11
Where there is light, there is darkness. Buddhissm is not a religion until some westeners transform it into.
As there is a lot of money involved, offcourse there are rats too. but I, personally give a rats fart for all this political part and do what I have to do. and thats meditating and don't listen to such a bullsh*t. My master is a high reincarnation who doesn't follow any doctrine besides the teachings of the Buddha. that's perfect with me.
There is a group of Gelugpa, who prefers to do a certain practice wich is related to a demon. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has forbidden this practice as harmfull to people. Now this group does everything to miscredit the Dalai Lama. And this lie with some mone from the cia involved is one part of it. I don't deny that a huge part of the now known monasteries are more wealth orientated. as specially when some new yorker jews are involved. I had this experience.
But you cannot blame Buddhissm in general for what some groups are doing.
Figure out for yourself and make a decision. and use more sources before you start a raid.
Live healthy

yuhui
13th December 2014, 01:33
An interesting article (link: http://tibeto-logic.blogspot.com/2013/12/good-grief-gurdjieff-in-tibet.html) I found:


Good Grief! Gurdjieff in Tibet?
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Did George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866-1949) ever visit Tibet? I recognize the problem that some of you may simply not know why you ought to care, and I empathize with you, but keep in mind that there are people out there who do care, people who may even care far too much. As a Tibetanist they may want to get answers from you. What are you going to tell them? That's not Gurdjieff here in the frontispiece, and neither is it Dorjiev, but the truth is, Dorjiev and Gurdjieff have been confused in the past. One author, otherwise quite a good one I think,* unhelpfully decided that while Gurdjieff in fact isn’t Dorjiev, it’s Dorjiev’s follower Norzunoff that is Gurdjieff. In either case, if either identification were true, it would follow that Gurdjieff did in fact visit Tibet. (Well, since both Dorjiev and Norzunoff most definitely did.)

(*James Webb, The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, and Their Followers, G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York 1980).)
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Agwan Dorjiev (ངག་དབང་རྡོ་རྗེ་)
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Ovshe Norzunoff
Le Tour de Monde (1904)
There is one person I know of who claimed to know for a fact that Gurdjieff was in Tibet, and that's the smoking man you see up there at the top of the blog. His name was Achmed Abdullah. How did Achmed know Gurdjieff had been to Tibet? Because he (A.A.) had seen him (G.I.G.) there, in Lhasa.

Now surely Gurdjieff was from the general area of Caucasus-Georgia-Armenia-Turkey (his parentage was Greek and Armenian), and not from Buriatia, as is implied in the quote you will see just below. His surname anyway suggests that he or his family must have originated in Georgia. The name Dorjiev has a quite different origin, since as is the style even today among Mongolians, it is a slightly modified form of the frequent Tibetan name element Dorjé (རྡོ་རྗེ་).*

(*For a bit on the possessive suffix -ov/-off/-ev/-eff used to form Slavic surnames, try looking here. Like surnames everywhere, they may [among other possibilities] be based on place of origin. Dorjiev's name was formed on the assumption that Dorjé was in some way his surname when of course it was not. It’s an integral part of his given name.)


The following quote is taken from Rom Landau (1899-1974), God Is My Adventure (1935?), p. 188:

‘I so often hear about his [Gurdjieff’s] experiences in Tibet,’ I replied: “but I am somewhat suspicious of those Tibetan tales. Every other messiah, from Mme. Blavatsky onwards, claims to have gathered knowledge in the mountains of Tibet. How do you know that Gurdjieff has actually ever been there?’

‘I happen to possess first-hand proofs. Some years ago there was a luncheon in New York, given, if I remember aright, for Gurdjieff. A number of distinguished men had been invited, among others the writer, Achmed Abdullah, who told me that he had never seen Gurdjieff before, but that he was very much looking forward to meeting this unusual Armenian. When Gurdjieff entered the room Achmed Abdullah turned to me and whispered: “I have met that man before. Do you know who he really is? Before the war he was in Lhassa as an agent of the Russian Secret Service. I was in Lhassa at the same time, and in a way we worked against each other.” So, you see, it is quite true that Gurdjieff had been at the very fountain of esoteric knowledge. Some people say he was in Lhassa as a Secret Service agent, in order to disguise the real purpose of his visit, which was to learn the supernatural methods of the Lamas. Other people maintain that his esoteric studies were only a pretext behind which he could hide his political activities. But who can tell?’


And the following letter is copied from the same book, p. 202:

Captain Achmed Abdullah.
Fifth Avenue House,
Sunday. New York City.

DEAR SIR,

As to Gurdjieff, I have no way of proving that I am right except that I know I am right. When I knew him, thirty years ago, in Tibet, he was, besides being the young Dalai Lama’s chief tutor, the main Russian political agent for Tibet. A Russian Buriat by race and a Buddhist by religion, his learning was enormous, his influence in Lhassa very great, since he collected the tribute of the Baikal Tartars for the Dalai Lama’s exchequer, and he was given the high title of Tsannyis Khan-po. In Russia he was known as Hambro Akvan Dorzhieff; to the British Intelligence as Lama Dorjieff. When we invaded Tibet, he disappeared with the Dalai in the general direction of outer Mongolia. He spoke Russian, Tibetan, Tartar, Tadjik, Chinese, Greek, strongly accented French and rather fantastic English. As to his age well I would say ageless. A great man who, though he dabbled in Russian imperialistic politics, did so I have an idea more or less in the spirit of jest. I met Gurdjieff, almost thirty years later, at dinner in the house of a mutual friend, John O’Hara Cosgrave, former editor of the New York World, in New York. I was convinced that he was Lama Dorjieff. I told him so and he winked. We spoke in Tadjik. I am a fairly wise man. But I wish I knew the things which Gurdjieff has forgotten.

Very faithfully,
A. ABDULLAH.




I don’t have any definitive disproof of this often-made identification, but I sincerely doubt Gurdjieff ever made it to Lhasa. If you want to pursue this will-o’-the-wisp further, I'd recommend this essay by Paul Beekman Taylor entitled “Gurdjieff and Prince Ozay.” Here the identity problems get, if anything, even thicker.

It’s true that Achmed’s information about Dorjiev is sufficiently accurate and believable, based on what we can know from independent sources. What isn’t so believable is he had sufficient reason to equate him with Gurdjieff. Achmed's accuracy makes me tend to believe that he might have actually been in Lhasa, seen Dorjiev there or at least heard a great deal about him, but his assertion of the single personhood of Gurdjieff-Dorjiev is, as he says, not something he can prove. And this equation our independent sources can disprove, especially now that a number of sources about Dorjiev's last years have been made known to the world at large.


It isn’t even all that clear to me that Gurdjieff unequivocally claimed that he had been in Lhasa or any other part of Tibet proper. What he did claim is that he received ultra-esoteric teachings (that formed the [or a] basis of his own teachings, including the well-known dances) at an almost entirely inaccessible location somewhere in the vicinity of the Pamirs from a group called the Sarmoung Brotherhood. They had yet another ‘sister’ monastery on the northern slopes of the Himalayas called Olman Monastery. I'm not sure if he claimed to go to this Olman Monastery, but even then I am the opposite of clear when it comes to knowing where the “northern slopes of the Himalayas” might be.* I’ve seen some say Gurdjieff claimed he had a “Tibetan marriage” and his eldest son became the head of a lamaserie, although I’m not sure how to trace back the authorities for it, or if it’s all that interesting. Is it?


(*See p. 313 in William James Thompson, J.G. Bennett's Interpretation of the Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, a Study of Transmission in the Fourth Way, doctoral dissertation, University of Lancaster (1995). The southern slopes of the Himalayas are much more easily located. For all I know the northern slopes of the Himalayas could be all the way up beyond the Kunlun Mountains, somewhere near the palace of the Queen Mother of the West.)



Well, we do all have problems with identity. That much is true and undeniable.

References:


Rom Landau, God Is My Adventure: A Book on Modern Mystics Masters and Teachers, Faber and Faber (London 1935, 1941).

Douglas Fairbanks in “The Thief of Bagdad, an Arabian Nights Fantasy,” 1924 movie, its screenplay by Nadir Khan, aka Achmed Abdullah, aka Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, the man who knew how to identify people. Well, I’d say Achmed Abdullah (1881-1945) was a very interesting character in his own right. I think we should take what he said with liberal doses of salt. Name changers see everyone else as name changers, you think maybe? Hollywood people know all there is to know about projection.

In general, I very much admire the acting done on both screen and stage under the directorship of Peter Brook, so if even just for that, I’d much recommend seeing “Meetings with Remarkable Men.” Here you can find what looks like a complete version of the film. Or try here.

And finally, if you are serious about wanting to know something about Dorjiev (1853-1938), I would seriously recommend this and/or the following book or the article by Andreyev. We know how Dorjiev spent the last decades of his life, and No, he did not spend them pretending to be Gurdjieff!

Jampa Samten and Nikolay Tsyrempilov, From Tibet Confidentially: Secret Correspondence of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama to Agvan Dorzjiev, 1911-1925, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (Dharamsala 2012).

Alexandre I. Andreyev, An Unknown Russian Memoir by Aagvan Dorjiev, Inner Asia, vol. 3 (2001), pp. 27-39. This has a survey of now-available sources on the life of Dorjiev. Several other works by the same author ought to be listed, if I had more energy, including the book cited in the appendix down below.

For some remarkable historic photographs of the Buddhist temple Dorjiev founded in St. Petersburg, look here. For a sketch of the temple's history, try here.

For the birthplace of Gurdjieff, look here, where it says "Gurdjieff was born in the Armenian city of Alexandropol, which is now called Gyumri." The birthdate would seem to be up in the air.




Appendix: The Death of Dorjiev

Source: Alexandre Andreyev, Soviet Russia and Tibet: The Debacle of Secret Diplomacy, 1918-1930s, Brill (Leiden 2003), p. 361:

"In January 1937, Dorzhiev, accompanied by his attendant, Lama Dugar Jimbiev, left Leningrad for Buryatia. There he hoped to spend his last days in a solitary retreat as Buddhist monks do, in his house at the medical school of the Atsagat Datsang, near Verkneudinsk. However his hopes were not to be fulfilled. On 13 November the Buryat was arrested in his home and put into prison in Verkheudinsk. He was accused of high treason (spying for Japan), terrorist and subversive activities, preparation of armed rebellion, and several more anti-Soviet crimes. Two weeks later, shortly after his one and only interrogation, Dorzhiev was taken to a hospital ward. There, on January 29, 1938, he died."



Gurdjieff died during the morning of October 29, 1949, in France. His last words? "Bravo America."

Answer me this: How can two people who are one and the same person die such different deaths?