Is the Dalai Lama homophobic?
A forum comment in Outsports (a gay sports forum):
"I visited Tibet and Bhutan a few years ago as some on here may remember. Since I last posted on here, Nancy Pelosi honoured the Dalai Lama with yet another award. She always grovels at his feet. I hate her. The Dalai Lama is a contradictory figure. He has called for nonviolence in the occupation by China. But he is vitriolically homophobic. When his writings are translated into English the homophobia is taken out. But read them in French, Tibetan, Chinese or Spanish. He teaches that homosexual men (like many patriarchal religous leaders he ignores dykes) will go to one of the 7 Tibetan hells. Tibetans as all Buddhists absorbed hell from the Jain faith. Tibetans mixed Buddhists hells with their own native shamanistic beliefs. They have an ice hell, fire hell e.t.c. Just because a man loves or makes love to another man the Dalai Lama would sentence them temporarily to hell. How gruesome. I can think of 'sins' that need punishment such as murder, child molestation and hate crimes but for loving another man? Nancy P flies to see the Dalai Lama in India every few months"
And there's this:
is the dalai lama anti-gay? is tibetan buddhism inherently homphobic?
*sigh*
Why is desire such a bad thing? Why is suffering such a bad thing? Don't we learn a lot more from adversity than from everything being all right with the world?
Addendum: It occurs to me that I should qualify the desire/suffering thing. I believe there's a huge difference in engaging in behaviour that caters to one's desire which causes suffering in oneself. It's vastly different to engage in behaviour that caters to one's desire which causes suffering in other beings.
"I visited Tibet and Bhutan a few years ago as some on here may remember. Since I last posted on here, Nancy Pelosi honoured the Dalai Lama with yet another award. She always grovels at his feet. I hate her. The Dalai Lama is a contradictory figure. He has called for nonviolence in the occupation by China. But he is vitriolically homophobic. When his writings are translated into English the homophobia is taken out. But read them in French, Tibetan, Chinese or Spanish. He teaches that homosexual men (like many patriarchal religous leaders he ignores dykes) will go to one of the 7 Tibetan hells. Tibetans as all Buddhists absorbed hell from the Jain faith. Tibetans mixed Buddhists hells with their own native shamanistic beliefs. They have an ice hell, fire hell e.t.c. Just because a man loves or makes love to another man the Dalai Lama would sentence them temporarily to hell. How gruesome. I can think of 'sins' that need punishment such as murder, child molestation and hate crimes but for loving another man? Nancy P flies to see the Dalai Lama in India every few months"
And there's this:
is the dalai lama anti-gay? is tibetan buddhism inherently homphobic?
*sigh*
Why is desire such a bad thing? Why is suffering such a bad thing? Don't we learn a lot more from adversity than from everything being all right with the world?
Addendum: It occurs to me that I should qualify the desire/suffering thing. I believe there's a huge difference in engaging in behaviour that caters to one's desire which causes suffering in oneself. It's vastly different to engage in behaviour that caters to one's desire which causes suffering in other beings.