Gurus with scandalous lives are not new and are not the product of our "degenerate" times.
What most people rarely realize is that the "worshipful" Dalai Lamas have a variegated past with their purges of doctrines they disagree with and in their purported past lives as incarnations of Avalokiteshvara. Here is one that the Tibetans don't like to discuss too much. The Sixth Dalai Lama the playboy Dalai As a Dalai Lama, Tsangyang had composed excellent works of songs and poems, but often went against the principles of the Gelug <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelug> School of Tibetan Buddhism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism> . For example, he decided to give his Getsul vow to the Panchen Lama <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchen_Lama> Lobsang Yeshi Palsangpo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Yeshi_Palsangpo> at eighteen, instead of taking the usual Gelong <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelong> . The Panchen Lama, who was the abbot of Tashilhupo monastery, and Prince Lhazang, the younger brother of the Po Gyalpo Wangyal <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Po_Gyalpo_Wangyal&action=edit\ &redlink=1> , persuaded him not to do so. Tsangyang Gyatso, enjoyed a lifestyle that included drinking, the company of women and men (read homo-erotic relationships), and writing love songs. He visited Lobsang Yeshe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Yeshe> , the Fifth Panchen Lama, in Shigatse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigatse> and requesting his forgiveness, renounced the vows of a novice monk. He ordered the building of the Tromzikhang <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tromzikhang> palace in Barkhor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkhor> , Lhasa. Tsangyang Gyatso had always rejected life as a monk, although this did not mean the abdication of his position as the Dalai Lama <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama> . Wearing the clothes of a normal layman and preferring to walk than to ride a horse or use the state palanquin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palanquin> , Tsangyang only kept the temporal prerogatives of the Dalai Lama. He also visited the parks and spent nights in the streets of Lhasa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa> , drinking wine, singing songs and having amorous relations with girls. Tsangyang retreated to live in a tent in the park near the northern escarpment of Potala <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potala> . Tsangyang finally gave up his discourses in public parks and places in 1702, which he was required to do so as part of his training. Capture and disappearance Using the Dalai Lama's behaviour as an excuse, Lhazang Khan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lha-bzang_Khan> , the king of the QoÅot or Khoshut <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoshut> Mongols <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol> , and an ally of the Qing Emperor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_Emperor> of China, killed the regent, and kidnapped the Sixth Dalai Lama who was killed or died (and/or achieved nirvana and some believe can still be met as if alive), soon after on the way to China. On the 28 June 1706, Lhazang Khan deposed Tsangyang, and installed a 25-year-old lama, Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ngawang_Yeshey_Gyatso&action=\ edit&redlink=1> , as the 6th Dalai Lama in 1707, claiming that he was the true rebirth of Lobsang Gyatso. The Gelukpa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelukpa> dignitaries and the Tibetan people rejected Lhazang Khan's installation of Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso, and recognised Tsangyang as the true reincarnation. However, Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso is considered by Tibetans to have been an incarnation of Avalokitesvara. While being taken out of the country, Tsangyang composed a poem which some say foretold of his next birth. "White crane lend me your wings. I will not fly far. From Lithang I shall return." Tsangyang died mysteriously near Kokonor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai> , on 15 November 1706, which is why there is no tomb for him in the Potala <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potala> . Rumours persisted he had escaped and lived in secrecy somewhere between China <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China> and Mongolia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia> . ***********************************************
