"The Dalai Lama had plenty of opportunity to find out about the military machinery of the Nazi regime; as a child he was under the tutelage of Heinrich Harrer – a former sergeant in the SS, Hitler’s most loyal soldiers – who for some years in Tibet before the Chinese occupation taught the young Dalai Lama about the outside world. Heinrich Harrer enjoyed the fame his book Seven Years in Tibet gave him but concealed his Nazi past.
I'll just bring some insight here - not an opinion, but info about buddhist lama who are bodhissatva + make a differenciation bettween the Dalai-Lama , his mission and vows vs the Dalai-Lama office (agenda, politics, image)
The Dalai-Lama office was, at that time, a governemental entity and run the current politics and governing in Tibet.
The Dalai-Lama didn't run politics in tibet as he was not experienced enough (too young).
There has been corruption around him, to sell Tibet to China. This is why it became dangerous.
Thus he was brought out of tibet in 1959 (if my recall is correct) despite he didn't want to leave and didn't get , at the time, the real danger it was for him and his entourage. (plot to kill him)
The ''mission'' of a Bodhissatva is to heal the suffering , to help people who suffer
A bodhissatva never look at a person as a criminal or any categorisation, but as someone suffering who has the desire and seed withim him\her for enlightment. Their vows is to reincarnate on earth, not going into any heaven realm or buddha realm, and take on all the suffering till there is none living entitity who had not attained it's buddhahodd nature
In other words, If he would have encounter LRH, he may had spend time with him, as well as David Miscavige, and try to take a load of their suffering on him - touch their heart through an encountering on a soul to soul basis - nothing of interest in the politics, opinions, the wrong doings in the past.
You can take it as a load of shit, but this is how it works with them.
An anecdote to illustrate,
I already have been ask to teach meditation basics to the most dangerous psychopaths in my country. One prison here for them. They are well known for the atrocity of their crimes (Charles Mansons's style)
The Monk teacher considered them simply as suffering human beings, same than you and me, being who wish to be their true nature without suffering.
I myself considered them as psychopaths and refused this mission. Thus, nobody , at that time, got there to teach them meditation as ,a colleague and me couldn't see them otherwise than dangerous criminals and malignant narcissists. A bodhissatva wouldn't refuse, but spend time with them and would bring them compassion and a chance to find their path
And, as Tom Cruise would say, I met them all
I met , few on a personnal basic, or encounter several of them, including the Dalai-Lama and I know, in my heart, when I encounter a pure heart and he is truly a pure heart. Not a perfect human though, I disagree with him on some points, but he intends good for others.
He doesn't considers himself as a Holy Dalai-lama, only as a normal human being.
So, if it is true he met nazis, there might be many other reason for this than what may appear at the surface, an exploited as an agreement with the Nazis mission and conduct. He would not met people for their aninterest about their belonging to any groups.
For a religious purpose, the dalai-lama would met with any human being who wish, either the psychopath murderer or the King. But, The audiences have always been decided\appointed by his entourage.
It can be confused with the 2 roles he held for decades (religious - political) which is not the case anymore. He only remains a religious figure.
I wish it can be of help to understand these people mindset concerning their fellow human beings and the absence of categorizatio or labelling in their mind like good or bad!
* I am sorry for my bad phrasing , Had seen old daddy in the nursing home today and can't put my though and grammar well together!
