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FREE Tibet? Power, society, and ideology in old Tibet(English Edition)

Author:Albert Ettinger

Publication date:2018-11-01

ISBN:9787508540559

Language:English

Abstract:

Is the Chinese description of old Tibet a blatant lie or could it be the truth? What did foreign visitors and explorers testify, as contemporary witnesses, and what do eminent western scholars state? In this book, the reader can find the detailed and meticulously documented answers… ...
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Is the Chinese description of old Tibet a blatant lie or could it be the truth? What did foreign visitors and explorers testify, as contemporary witnesses, and what do eminent western scholars state? In this book, the reader can find the detailed and meticulously documented answers…

Book catalogue

  • Cover

    1
  • Titlepage

    2
  • Contents

    3
  • Author Introduction

    4
  • Inset1

    5
  • Inset2

    6
  • Preface

    7
  • 1. The Tibet issue and the crucial question: "what do you think about the lama religion?"

    8
  • 2. The favourable environment: New "spirituality" from Hollywood

    9
  • 3. Lamaism, an abhorrent, "degenerate" form of Buddhism

    10
  • 4. Old Tibet: feudalism, theocracy, dictatorship

    11
  • 5. Serfs, slaves, beggars and bandits

    12
  • 6. Lhasa, the Rome of Lamaism

    13
  • 7. At the foot of the Potala: clerical power, clerical bans, clerical excesses

    14
  • 8. "Inferior birth": misogyny in old Tibet

    15
  • 9. Class society in the monasteries: monks in rags, lamas in gold and silk

    16
  • 10. Monastic education: "enlightenment" through sticks and whips

    17
  • 11. In the shadow of monasteries and castles: windowless huts and nomad tents

    18
  • 12. Stagnancy, decadence and decay - the lamas' gift to Tibet

    19
  • 13. Oracles, occultism, and ritual cannibalism

    20
  • 14. "Enlightened beings" in a kingdom of darkness?

    21
  • 15. Gendün Chöpel – rebel and "modern scholar" in old Tibet

    22
  • 16. Feudal pomp for the clergy, stick and lashes for the devout

    23
  • 17. The chosen ones and the damned, god-like gurus and a lama Pope

    24
  • 18. Sexual abuse and the male delusion of omnipotence

    25
  • 19. Fantasy worlds full of sadistic violence: the sixteen hells of Lamaism

    26
  • 20. A real kingdom of terror

    27
  • 21. With sword, dagger, and poison: a brief criminal history of Lamaism

    28
  • 22. Instead of Christian "charity": the vacuousness of "compassion"

    29
  • 23. Animal and probably also human sacrifices

    30
  • 24. A love of animals that goes through the stomach

    31
  • 25. So "green" were the lamas

    32
  • 26. A "Shangri La" without toilets, sewers, and waste disposal

    33
  • 27. Buddhist medicine: exorcism, relics and lama piddle

    34
  • 28. In the earthly vale of tears

    35
  • 29. End time, thousand-year kingdom and terrorism in a Buddha style

    36
  • 30. Land of myths, fairy-tales and... lies

    37
  • 31. Despite a Nobel Prize and official adulation: the Emperor is naked!

    38
  • References

    39
  • Copyright

    40
  • Backcover

    41

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