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238 STRIPPING THE GURUS
publisher even asked him to remove the injunctions against
homosexuality from his [1999] book Ethics for the New Millennium,
for fear that they would offend American readers,
and the Dalai Lama acquiesced (French, 2003).
Expounding further on such restrictions, the Lama (in P. Harvey,
2000) has said:
Sexual misconduct for men and women consists of oral and
anal sex.... Even with your wife, using one’s mouth or other
hole is sexual misconduct.
As for when sexual intercourse takes place, if it is during the
day it is also held to be a form of misconduct (Lama, 1996).
Thankfully, some “fun” is still allowed, albeit not during daylight
hours:
To have sexual relations with a prostitute paid by you and
not by a third person does not, on the other hand, constitute
improper behavior (Lama, 1996).
Interesting. Yet still, speaking of “the other hand”:
Using one’s hand, that is sexual misconduct (the Dalai
Lama, in [P. Harvey, 2000]).
Masturbation ... includes emitting semen on another person,
a monk getting a novice to masturbate him, or himself masturbating
a sleeping novice, which could be seen to include
homosexual acts. It is a lesser offence, of expiation [i.e.,
atonement], for nuns “tormented with dissatisfaction” to slap
each other’s genitals with their palms or any object, with the
slapper “enjoying the contact” (P. Harvey, 2000).
“Nuns just wanna have fun.”
The present Dalai Lama’s views on reincarnation, too, stray
somewhat from the spiritual norm:
There is a possibility that a scientist who is very much involved
his whole life [with computers], then the next life ...
[he would be reborn in a computer], same process! Then this
machine which is half-human and half-machine has been reincarnated
(Hayward and Varela, 1992).