Ep. 500: The Shadow of the Dalai Lama | Jamie Hanshaw Dyer | The Courtenay Turner Podcast
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In this episode, Courtenay Turner interviews Jamie Hanshaw Dyer about the controversial book 'The Shadow of the Dalai Lama' and its implications in Tibetan Buddhism and politics.
Episode 500 of The Courtenay Turner Podcast. My guest is Jamie Hanshaw Dyer — author, researcher, and the person I called when I finally opened the book I'd been avoiding for three years. The book is "The Shadow of the Dalai Lama: Sexuality, Magic andPolitics in Tibetan Buddhism" by Victor and Victoria Trimondi. Itis six hundred pages long. A physical copy costs around six hundreddollars. Almost no one in the English-speaking world has read it.In this conversation, Jamie and I walk through what it says. This is not a comfortable conversation. It is, I think, a necessaryone. 🙏 Please support the show! Like, Share, Subscribe, and Donate to keep the work going @ https://Courtenay.show ⸻ 📖 READ THE COMPANION ESSAY"The Tantric Operating System: The Dalai Lama, the Epstein files, and the operating system running beneath the yoga studio, the manosphere, and the golden age your politicians keep promising" — the full written investigation — is live now on my Substack. The essay extends this conversation into the federal Epstein files, the MIT Media Lab scandal, the Deepak Chopra correspondence, the Tom Pritzker resignation, and the contemporary institutional shells the operating system…
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