Deep Cut: The Dalai Lama Spectacle
Conspirituality
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Polarized Perspectives of Orientalism and the Dalai Lama
This chapter discusses the polarized perspectives of orientalism surrounding the Dalai Lama spectacle. The speaker highlights the dismissive response to a woman who viewed him as a god, attributing it to indoctrination. The chapter explores the demonizing and idealizing modes of orientalism, and how the failures of the idealizing mode can lead to a sense of betrayal and subsequent demonization.
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