April 10, 2023

Oh, no. No no no no no. Can we not have one patch of sunshine in this world?

30 comments:

tim maguire said...

Was it too much to hope that the Dalai Lama would be media savvy enough to understand that you never ever apologize?

Whelp, that’s it for western Buddhism. Back to Tibet with you.

jaydub said...

I'll bet creepy Joe wishes he had thought of that instead of just settling for groping and hair sniffing.

Goldenpause said...

He is 87 years old, so his brain (and judgement) aren’t what they used to be. Biden has similar issues and he is significantly younger. Both of them should retire from public life.

n said...

Where there is sun, there are shadows.

Leland said...

This isn’t my idea of sunshine.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Can we not have one patch of sunshine in this world?"

No. We're in Nietschze's post untermenschen world where all the idols are being smashed. The panopticon will break down all sanctity, it's just getting started.

Quaestor said...

Has he apologized for all fourteen of his bodies? Or is it just the current incarnation that's a latent pedo?

Dave Begley said...

Chinese disinformation.

Wince said...

"...the spiritual leader kissing a child on the lips and then asking him to “suck my tongue” at an event."

Oh, baby
Please be there
Suck my kiss, cut me my share

Hit me, you can't hurt me
Suck my kiss
Kiss me, please pervert me
Stick with this
Is she talking dirty?
Give to me sweet sacred bliss
That mouth was made to suck my kiss


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jElKMMOWM&t=188s

Humperdink said...

It has been reported that a drooling President Biden has been replaying the video over and over again.

Gusty Winds said...

Margorie Taylor Green is probably right about everything. The sexualization of children is a sickness in our currently sick world.

Suck my tongue??? Come on man.

Gusty Winds said...

Big hitter, The Lama....

Temujin said...

Yikes. A Bidenesque Dalai Lama? This is something my mind would have never conjured up. The horror. The horror.

Andrew said...

My favorite Dalai Lama moment was when he said in an interview that women should wear makeup.

BarrySanders20 said...

Channeling George Costanza.

Wince said...

Here's where the problem started...

Dalai Lama meets Red Hot Chili Peppers

hombre said...

"Oh, no. No no no no no. Can we not have one patch of sunshine in this world?"

Not if the "prince of this world" (John 12:31) has his way. Good men, particularly spiritual leaders are under attack.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Look at the Lama as you would a great artist. I’m not saying pedophelia is ok. It’s not.

dwshelf said...

I think this qualifies as "dirty old man". Forgive him if you like, but keep your kids away.

Readering said...

Looking forward to endless fallout from this. Maybe SNL treatment?

Narayanan said...

is Dalai keeping Boe Jiden company ?

Narr said...

That'll show the Panchen Lama how it's done.

(Add Tibetan Lamas to the list of spiritual pervs.)

Narayanan said...

must be some new ritual for Buddist evalngelism in this New Age >>> reform Buddism

takirks said...

LOL... What, precisely, did you think went on in Tibetan monasteries?

There were reasons that the Chinese found it so easy to break the links between the Tibetan people and their religion, not least the exploitative relationship many of those "religious" types had with the people they supposedly "ministered" to. More like, preyed upon...

Anyone who bothered to read history would know how abusive those institutions were, and what they got up to, hidden in the heights. Good grief... All you have to do is some basic survey reading, and you'll find scads of outraged Victorian Englishmen denouncing the Tibetans for their excesses, and it's also not too hard to find other sources discussing their primitive and disgusting sexuality, replete with abuse of small boys.

I never really "got" the reverence people have for the Dalai Lama. He's a part of an ancient and pernicious institution that's not done a hell of a lot of good for the Tibetan people, when you get past all the lunatic reverence the New Age types have for him. Tibet was always a particularly backwards and disgusting place, when you looked at the lives a lot of the common folk were forced to lead by their oh-so-saintly religious types.

Read up on the place, if you don't believe me. There are considerable sources discussing the abusive nature of life under the lamaseries for most of the people of Tibet. Not the least is the random kidnapping of children on the theory that they're the reincarnation of whoever just died in the hierarchy...

Narr said...

I suspect many of the commenters already knew, takirks. The jokes aren't evidence of surprise. (Not that some of those Victorian public schools weren't . . . problematic, too.)

Tina Trent said...

Eh, he's a fraud. Took a cool million to led his credibility to the Nexvim cult. Has taken similar funds from shady people and universities countless times as his own people are impoverished. Insists on private planes, celebrity status. Likes rubbing elbows with famous actors.

Nice sand art by his peons, though.

Tina Trent said...

Margorie Taylor Green is an equally undeserving vessel of truth. Though one must admit that she has moxie.

takirks said...

@Narr;

Really? Then, why the maudlin headline on this post, decrying the shattering of fantasy?

Raw fact is, none of the usual suspects who've taken up with the Dalai Lama and his endless lines of BS have ever bothered to educate themselves about the effective theocracy he represents, or the various and sundry miseries of life on the Tibetan plateau while the monasteries held sway.

Which isn't to say that the Communist Chinese were doing good, but you do have to acknowledge that they've improved things for a bunch of Tibetans, hard though that may be to believe. In the final analysis, I fear they've merely exchanged one theocracy for another.

I'm having a hard time remembering exactly which authors I read during my passage through Tibetan history, but the overwhelming theme they all wrote about was the utter degradation of the Tibetan people and perversity of the regime centered on Lhasa. There were some real horrors going on there, historically. The lamaseries were complicit in nearly every aspect of daily life being what it was, which was entirely horrific. It's bad enough that there are more than a few Tibetans who'll say they're grateful to the Chinese for coming in, which is about like having a Cambodian tell you they're grateful to the Vietnamese for coming in and doing away with the Khmer Rouge... Highly counterintuitive.

Narr said...

Headline?

Wasn't mine, and I specified "many of the commenters." You have a problem with reading comprehension?

Of course the place was and is a Turd World Hellhole, bringing to mind Cockburn's quip about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in '79: if ever a country deserved rape, that country was Afghanistan.

Perhaps we'll live long enough to see the last Buddhist boy-buggerer strangled with the entrails of the last Red, personally, and to coin a phrase.

K said...

Maybe you can keep this patch of sunshine.

Based on this Vice article, "suck my tongue" was the Dalai Lama's "broken English" translation of a common Tibetan saying often (more delicately) translated as "eat my tongue" and is more like the last line in a little ritual micro-comedy:

> "In a Youtube video, Jigme Ugen, a second-generation Tibetan refugee living in the U.S., explains how this display of affection was born out of a game played between the Tibetan elderly and children. Kids who go up to their grandfather, for instance, are asked to kiss their grandfather’s forehead, touch their noses and kiss them.
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> “Then [the grandfather] says that I’ve given you everything so the only thing left is for you to eat my tongue,” Ugen said. “The child probably never gets the candy or money but gets a beautiful lesson about life, love and family.”