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HELLO, DALAI! 235
Previous incarnations in that same lineage have left their own
marks on history:
[T]he Sixth Dalai Lama ... was said to have been unsuited for
his office, said to have loved many women, as well as having
a fondness for gambling and drink (Carnahan, 1995).
He did not observe even the rules of a fully ordained priest.
He drank wine habitually....
“Ignoring the sacred customs of Lamas and monks in Tibet
he began by bestowing care on his hair, then he took to
drinking intoxicating liquors, to gambling, and at length no
girl or married woman or good-looking person of either sex
was safe from his unbridled licentiousness” (French, 2003;
italics added).
One of the early Dalai Lamas was particularly known for his
love of women. It was common practice for households in
which a daughter had received the honor of the Dalai Lama’s
transmission through sexual union to raise a flag over their
home. It is said that a sea of flags floated in the wind over
the town (Caplan, 2002).
That Sixth, Tsangyang Gyatso, lived only a few hundred years
ago, from 1683 to 1706, in traditional, agrarian Tibet.
Given this reincarnational lineage, then, we need hardly be
surprised that the current Dalai Lama has himself voiced a
thought or two concerning sexual matters. For, when questioned as
to which common experiences he had most missed out on, the retirement-aged
monk “pointed at his groin and laughed: ‘I obviously
missed this’” (Ellis, 2003).
The non-violent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize also admitted
that he “would not have made a good father as he had a bad temper”:
I used to be somewhat hot-tempered and prone to fits of impatience
and sometimes anger. Even today, there are, of
course, times when I lose my composure. When this happens,
the least annoyance can take on undue proportions and upset
me considerably. I may, for example, wake up in the
morning and feel agitated for no particular reason. In this
state, I find that even what ordinarily pleases me may irri-