here ... In these bad times, a despotic ‘barbarian king’
forces all nations other than Shambhala to follow his rule.”
From The Shadow of the Dalai Lama Victor and Victoria
Trimundi
- Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhocracy and monasticism was
and still is notoriously riven by sometimes violent sectarian
conflict, dominated by dogmatism and spiritually
educational only for a small minority. And like its
counterpart – the celibate monasticism of military service –
even if not compulsory, Tibet’s spiritual rather than military
monasticism was also economically enforced – by the sheer
material poverty of its conscripts and their families. - See my essay entitled ‘Relational Revolution’ at
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