Tibetans Buddhist Sect Claims Dalai Lama Discrimination

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Thank you for publishing this correct article on Dorje Shugden. The Tibetan Government site you have quoted actually completely distorts history! The truth is that the 5th Dalai Lama, after making the mistake of thinking Shugden was harmful, later realized he was a Buddha and built the first monastery to him, wrote the first prayer to him and made the first statue of him with his own hands! This can be found in many biographies. The Tibetan Government site is just following the Dalai Lama's lies. Please do not spread them. Thank you.

Most unfortunately what the people at the demonstrations are saying is true. It's time that the world realizes that the success of the Dalai Lama, beyond his charismatic presence and gestures, comes originally from the teachings about universal love and compassion that he learned from his Gurus. And not only is he doing the opposite of what these sublime teachings teach, he is also persecuting precisely the people who remained faithful to their Gurus, who are the same as the Dalai Lama's.

His religious persecution is quite painful for Western practitioners, in ways easy to understand if you ask yourself the question: would I like to have my family, my colleagues, my neighbors, receive calls or emails where I am accused of being a malignant spirit worshipper? This is the type of slander that the Western followers of the Dalai Lama are propagating induced by his long, insistent campaign against the Protector Dorje Shugden.

But we Westerners are nevertheless in countries where there is a limit to the abuse you can inflict to people. What the world should wake up to, is to the fact that the Dalai Lama is persecuting helpless monks and nuns and lay people in India, where they have become like outcasts amidst their own people, where they have been thrown out of their monasteries, out of their jobs, out of their schools being children of practitioners, where the rest of Tibetans had to swear in front of other deities that they are never going to have any human contact with them any more. This unbelievable segregation was ordered by the Dalai Lama himself, in January of this year, because, he said repeatedly, he had the right to finish what he had started -meaning the ban on Dorje Shugden in 1996.

The suffering of those Tibetans is heartbreaking. And it's being ignored due to a reason most bizarre: because it seems outlandish, incredible, that the one who preaches religious tolerance to others is doing the opposite of what he preaches. A cruel vicious circle. But no matter how strange it might seem, it is the truth. The Dalai Lama is transgressing the laws of all civilized countries and he is getting away with it, because he has on his side charisma, the precious teachings he proclaims without following, his celebrity status, his Nobel Peace Prize.

The world should open its eyes and stop the wrong actions of the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is not stopping them because the world has decided to close its eyes in his case.

We who adhere to our Western values of human rights should not allow this to happen any more.

Please do not believe only my words, investigate. Go to YouTube, to websites like the Shugdensociety.info/home, like Wisdombuddhadorjeshugden.org, and others, to find the truth.

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It is true that this ban has cause so much suffering to Dorje Shugden practitioners in Tibetan exile and inside Tibet. In India, Nepal monasteries are segrigated, childrens and old people are denied education, health care because of their 400 years religious believe. Dalai lama himself had practice this for 4 decades. He says he made mistakes and Here is big one. Give religious Freedom!

Thank you for your article. I would like to do a small observation: there is no "official Buddhist take on this issue", only "the Dalai Lama's side on this issue", and the Dalai Lama, contrary to what people believe (and he does not deny of course), is not "the Pope of Buddhism". He is only the head of the Tibetan government in exile. He's never been the head of religion in Tibet. Traditionally he was the political leader and the religious leader was the holy Panchen Lama.

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Furthermore, although the Dorje Shugden issue has the appearance of a religious issue, it's considered by the Tibetans themselves as a political issue, and with good reason.

The first moves against the Protector Deity Dorje Shugden had an internal political reason. These were the sixties and seventies. The Dalai Lama thought of having a unified Tibetan community in exile to better face the world, and that a good way of doing it was to mix the beliefs and practices of the 4 schools of Tibetan Buddhism and create an only school with him at its head. For the Gelugpa Lamas this constituted a serious religious mistake, and they refused to comply. The Dalai Lama decided to destroy the Protector of their lineage as a way to destroy those Lamas, the most influential among Tibetans. Remember this, because today the Dalai Lama wants the world to believe that the Dorje Shugden people are a kind of cult. This is untrue. They were the most mainstream of Tibetan Buddhism.

More than 20 years later all the sudden the Dalai Lama decided to bring this inner tension with the Gelugpas to the whole of the Tibetan community. He proclaimed a ban on Dorje Shugden, and a tremendous persecution started then, with and inquisitorial destruction of books and images, the interdiction of holding civil jobs for the practitioners and much more. Why all the sudden had he done that? Very simple, but unknown by the public. He needed the creation of a great red herring to cover the fact that just before his Nobel Prize he had given up the independence of Tibet without ever consulting the Tibetans, all alone on his own. It worked. In fact, the first important political opposition against his "autonomy" theory, a nice word for accepting that Tibet is part of China, erupted at the end of 1995, lead by his brother Norbu, residing in Indiana, USA. He created the Walks for Independence, openly defying his brother the Dalai Lama. To avoid the spread of this opposition among Tibetans, fiercely lovers of their Motherland, he invented that the Protector Deity Dorje Shugden harmed his own health and the cause of Tibet.

Unhappily, this red herring worked. And the world protected automatically his fame, never believing that he was persecuting his own people.

Then he chose 2008, the year of the Olympics in China, to try to force China into accepting him back, in his own terms. The riots in Tibet are believed to have taken place under his instigation, to put China against the wall. But he needed again peace at home. What he wants is to impose to the Tibetans the solution of handing Tibet to China, and the exile Tibetans hate this idea. So to distract them, again, he intensified the persecution against the Dorje Shugden practitioners. This time the main victims were the great monastic universities, the Southern India monasteries of Ganden, Drepung and Sera. There started the oaths and the ostracism, the segregation, the creation of an outcast group of persecuted practitioners, that Tibetans cannot even talk to, let alone share any other human relation. At least a thousand monks have been expelled from their monasteries. This is huge. The lay people suffer still more, defenseless in the midst of fanaticized communities.

So this is the truth behind the issue. A deity has been used to further the autocratic rule of the Tibetan leader, used to distract people and avoid opposition. The suffering is difficult to describe. May the world open its eyes and stop the Dalai Lama.

For those unfamiliar with the Buddhist tenets and Tibetan politics, this whole controversy can seem to be inpenatrably complex. A very simplified version can be understood through an analogy. In Judaism, Christ is considered to be just another prophet, but by nature a worldly being. In Christianity, Christ is considered to be the Son of God, by nature a transcendental, or divine being. Virtually all of the historical disputes between Christians and Jews, especially in the early days of Christianity, revolve around this one central question. In a very similar way, many Tibetan Buddhists who follow the Dalai Lama consider Dorje Shugden to be by nature a worldly being. Others consider Dorje Shugden to be by nature an enlightened being. Just as early Christians were declared heretics and accused of worshipping false gods, so too Dorje Shugden practitioners are being accused of similar things. Both sides have their authoritative lamas (spiritual teachers) supporting their positions, with historical evidence and logic to support their claims.

So who is right? People often think one side must be right and the other wrong. But the short answer is both are right and both are wrong. What Dorje Shugden practitioners say (that Dorje Shugden is a wisdom Buddha) is right for them and wrong for practitioners who follow the Dalai Lama. What followers of the Dalai Lama say (that Dorje Shugden is a worldly spirit) is right for them and wrong for Dorje Shugden practitioners. So in the end, who is right? The answer is it actually doesn’t matter.

The final resolution of this crisis is simple: religious freedom. We have our spiritual bread, you have yours, so let’s all respect one another’s choices. If everyone did that, then we could all co-exist peacefully, in harmony, and we could all be focused on what matters: becoming better people.

in a free country... where there is respect for human rights....in the center of Manhattan....tibetans showed their true colors....what must they be doing to the innocent shugden practitioners in Nepal and India.....?????just imagine for a second???

This present Dalai lama has no compassion...he is a big HYPOCRITE....HE PREACHES COMPASSION AND LOVE....but his actions are just the opposite. what is he gaining from ostracizing a section of his own people. Shugden practitioners are also TIBETANS.

THIS DALAI LAMA HAS AND WILL NOT ACHIEVE ANYHTING FOR THE TIBETAN PEOPLE.HIS GREATEST ACHIEVMENT WILL BE, THAT HE DIVIDED HIS OWN PEOPLE AND INSTIGATED THEM AGAISNT ONE ANOTHER. HE IS A HYPOCRITE.WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATRED AND BITTERNESS IN THE TIBETAN COMMUNITY.WHY IS HE NOT PREVENTING THIS.HE PREACHES COMPASSION & PEACE & LOVE...BUT HE HAS NO COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR SHUGDEN PRACTITIONERS.ARE SHUGDEN PRACTITIONERS NOT TIBETANS? WHY WHY WHY DALAI LAMA?