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The Friendship with Shoko Asahara
Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese AUM Cult, claimed to have attained enlightenment in the Himalayas in 1986. In the following year he visited the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, the first of at least five such meetings.332 Russell Skelton reporting in the Sydney Morning Herald writes that:

‘… [Asahara] repeatedly claimed the Dalai Lama gave him a divine mission to spread “real Buddhism” in Japan. He said the Tibetan leader had told him he was ideal for the mission because he had the “mind of a Buddha”.’333

According to the Dalai Lama’s representative in Japan, Karma Gelek Yuthok, Asahara made financial donations to the Dalai Lama from 1988 onwards. Over the next four years these were to amount to over $2 million, in an attempt to win over the Dalai Lama’s ‘favor and endorsement’.334

It is clear that Asahara’s financial largesse to the Tibetan cause was successful. The Dalai Lama helped Asahara by writing letters of ‘recommendation guaranteeing that Aum Shinrikyo was a sect that raised public awareness through religion and social activity and promoted social kindness through religious teaching and yoga exercises.’ As the German magazine Focus also comments, the Dalai Lama ‘served as Shoko’s guarantor for tax-exemption while Shoko used tax-exempt funds to produce lethal gases.’335

Russell Skelton also says, ‘Posters depicting Asahara and the Dalai Lama and carrying the Tibetan leader’s endorsement were used extensively in cult promotions.’336 It is also clear that in the minds of many Japanese the Dalai Lama’s endorsement was a powerful incentive to believe in Asahara.

The Dalai Lama visited Tokyo a month after the cult released lethal gas into the city’s subway system. Shoko Asahara was standing trial for the attack that killed twelve people and left nearly 5,500 suffering the effects of sarin nerve gas.337 He was also facing seventeen further charges of murder, attempted murder, abduction and the production of illegal chemical and biological weapons. At that time the Dalai Lama said of Asahara, ‘I consider him as my friend, but not necessarily a perfect one.’338

As mentioned earlier, Palden Gyal writing in Tibetan News spoke of this scandal in relation to freedom of the press within the Tibetan community:

‘In May 1995, [the only independent Tibetan newspaper, Democracy] published a piece about Shoko Asahara, the Japanese cult leader, highlighting the fact that he had been friends with the Dalai Lama before being accused of killing eleven [sic] people in a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo Subway. The article suggested that perhaps the government should be careful about who it conducted relations with in the future. Not long after that, in March 1996, the newspaper ceased publication.’339

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