I remember in one of John Ralston Saul's books he absolutely lays into Tibetan buddhist monks, dismissing them as something akin to court jesters (or most charitably courtiers) of the previous ruling class. Says of course they're petitioning for a return to what they had because they had a lovely, powerful position. Never followed up on it, but it obviously stuck somewhere in by memory. Think it's in Voltaire's Bastards.
yes there are many extremely harsh critics of Tibetan Buddhism. there are counts of sexual abuse not unlike those of the Catholic church; there are counts of major corruption; there are many examples of serious human rights violations under the theocracy of the monks.
one scholar even went so far as to say Tibetan Buddhism to Buddhism at large is "like what Aleister Crowley is to Christianity".
the articles quote a couple who were many years among the most devout of Dalai Lama followers, but subsequently became his sharpest critics after having seen what goes on in the inner circles of the elite.
power corrupts, and it would seem that Tibetan Monks are not immune to it.
understandable but still troubling that most people do not want to face or even discuss this...
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