Deep Cut: The Dalai Lama Spectacle

Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today. What the hell happened between the Dalai Lama and that Indian boy? The internet served up a raft of painfully inflammatory takes, so I took a month to talk with Tibetologists and review the literature on sexual abuse in Tibetan Buddhist contexts. This is a deep, tangled dive. Content warnings apply. Chapters: Why cover this, and why now? Summary The Clip Virality Two Orientalisms Outrages and Pilled Mindset What do Tibetans and their allies say? Kazi Adi Shakti, Thi Nguyen, Becca Williams Deep Cut Intro Music Single Origins — Pete Kuzma Show Notes Stop Sensationalizing the Dalai Lama's Innocent Interactions | A Tibetan's Perspective Yin Sun རྒྱ་གར་མཐོ་སློབ་ཀྱི་བྱིས་པ་ཞིག་གིས་མཇལ་ཁ་ཞུས་པ། Cardi B on Twitter: This world is full of predators. The Dalai Lama is clearly pedo inclined. He wrote a statement (in third person) after we posted the clip below. https://twitter.com/MIAuniverse/status/1645530569042956289 MIA on vaccines, vindication and her visions of Jesus: ‘People fear me for some reason’ Himalayan Community comes out with massive outpour of support for HH the Dalai Lama https://thewalrus.ca/survivors-of-an-international-buddhist-cult-share-their-stories/ Survivors of an International Buddhist Cult Share Their Stories | The Walrus ‘Abuse of Power’ (1999) | open buddhism Confessions of Kalu Rinpoche ‘Not The Tibetan Way’: The Dalai Lama’s Realpolitik Concerning Abusive Teachers | open buddhism Independent: Sexual Abuse Allegations in Tibetan Buddhism Mind & Life Institute statement on the Dalai Lama Mongolian child named by Dalai Lama as reincarnation of Buddhism's third most important leader | Daily Mail Online China: Dalai Lama furore reignites Tibet 'slave' controversy - BBC News https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq4hDfaLe6d/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq_1L77vl2L/ Attune to the Body Cues of the Boy in the Dalai Lama Incident + Open Offer for Counseling to the Boy https://twitter.com/LizCrokin/status/1645971419447148545 Tibetans Say the Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Viral Video Is Being Misinterpreted Brother Lobsang commentary “Eat my Tongue” explanation Giaco Orofino commentary HH Dalai Lama Archetype of Radical Innocence with Robert Thurman : On The Recent Viral Video Kazi Adi Shakti's essay Holopoiesis MORAL OUTRAGE PORN C. Thi Nguyen and Bekka Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices