[Buddha-l] Trimondi

[Alex Wilding]

> Erik Hoogcarspel
> A popular standup comedian in Holland wrote a rather unpleasant and
> illfounded column about the Dalai Lama in a newspaper. He seems to have
> retreived his insights form a book that is online: 'The Shadow of the
> Dalai Lama' http://www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/SDLE/Contents.htm . Does
> anyone know any reviews of or comments on this book? The point of view
> presented sounds very Beijingish.

In another place I once wrote the following, when a reader in that forum
mentioned that she had been:
>> slogging thru a deliciously terrible Western
>> analysis of Kalachakra. (maha mudra is defined as
>> the yogi's "inner woman")

To which I replied:
> Might I guess that you have been looking at the
> abysmal pseudo-academic propaganda of the
> so-called Trimondi team, Victor and Victoria
> (Herbert and Mariana Röttgen)?
> Those who don't know them might like to know
> a bit of background. He is a career-protestor who,
> in recent years, has made a business of
> misrepresenting the Dalai Lama. Fair play to
> him - he's made enough of a splash to make a
> living, although nobody has seen fit to publish
> his major tract in English. But the misinformation
> is enough to make you want to scream!
>
> Tid-bit: when he was still using his birth-name
> and running the "Trikont Verlag" publishing firm,
> a German edition of Mao's red book was one of
> his publications. I think we can guess roughly
> where he is coming from.
                                    
I do believe that there is a full analysis out there somewhere - perhaps
Chris Fynn would know, if he is reading here these days?

All the best
Alex Wilding
Blog: http://dangzang.blogspot.com/