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From: cak0l@larch.cs.Virginia.EDU (cak0l)
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Subject: Re: Awakening From the Dream of Experience
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Date: 6 Jun 91 17:33:10 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.204544.16206@nas.nasa.gov> cognos!cognos!uunet.uu.net!garym@uunet.UU.NET (Gary Murphy) writes:

>be 'what do I gain').  It's like Jesus saying the First Commandment
>is the most important because all others follow from it, but I KNOW
>from my travels that the meaning supposedly implied is open to VERY
>wide interpretation: Nazism _is_ based on a Tibetan doctrine!

well, not to quibble, but when i hit this, a very loud hmmm... struck my
brain.  i know that the swastika is a reversed version of a buddhist
holy symbol, but aside from this geometric tie-in to buddhism, i have
heard nothing of how hitler grabbed ideas from tibetan buddhism.
could you possibly back up this claim?  i know hitler assembled his
twisted little mind-set from a variety of classic sources (including
thule and other norse ideas), but i have heard nothing about him using
tibetan ideas to back up his own theology.  it would seem to me that anyone
basing a kill-doctrine on a buddhist doctrine would be making the same
mistake that kevin kline does in a fish called wanda--
(paraphrase) "the principal tenet of buddhism is not 'every man
for himself'", says wanda.  she also says, "yes they do read
nietzsche (of gorillas), they just don't understand it."
which is the case, i think, of anything hitler tried to pull in
from tibetan buddhism.
in short, do you have any sources for this claim?
thanks,
Christopher Koeritz (cak0l@Virginia.EDU)
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   To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
                                      -- Shakyamuni Buddha