Since you started the cruel ban against the 350 year Dorje Shugden practice, how has it benefit your Tibetan society and Buddhism in the world? Things have become worse and most educated Tibetans can see this. They don’t speak out not because they don’t see your ban as wrong, but you instill fear in them and not respect. It is like fear of a dictator. I am sorry to say so. Everyone is divided. There is no harmony. Before your ban there was more harmony and unity.

By enacting the ban, you split the monasteries, split so many families, split regions in Tibet apart, split your disciples from you, split your own gurus from you, split Tibetan Buddhism apart. You have created so much disharmony.

It is not democratic what you have done to ban a religion within your community. You always talk of tolerance and acceptance and democracy and yet you do not accept and tolerate something different from your beliefs. When people practice Dorje Shugden you ostracize them, ban them from seeing you, ban them from using Tibetan facilities. You know you have done that. There are videos that capture your speech and prove this point. You even had people expelled from monasteries just because they practice Dorje Shugden. Some of the monks you expelled have been in the monastery for over 40 years. Many older monks shed tears because of this.

Many young educated Tibetans lost confidence in you as they saw the damage the Dorje Shugden ban created and they lose hope. Many have become free thinkers. They reject what you have done. So many people in the west left Buddhism because of the confusion you created with this ban against Dorje Shugden which is immoral.

You could of had millions of people who practice Dorje Shugden to support, love and follow you, but you scared them away. They are hurt and very disappointed. They loved you and respected you deeply before the ban. It has been 60 years and you have failed to get Tibet back. Your biggest failure is not getting Tibet back after 57 years in exile. Now you are begging China to allow you to return to Tibet to the disappointment of thousands of people who fought for a free Tibet believing in you. So many self-immolated for a free Tibet and now you want Tibet to be a part of China with no referendum from Tibetans. Just like a dictator, you decide on your own. It was your government and you that lost Tibet in the first place. Your policies and style of doing things do not benefit Tibet and Buddhism. You have been the sole ruler of Tibet your whole life and you still have not gotten our country of Tibet back for us. Our families and us are separated. Yet you create more pain by creating a ban to further divide people. Please have compassion.

No other Buddhist leader has banned or condemned any religion except for you. It looks very bad. You are a Nobel laureate and this is not fitting of a laureate. You should unite people and not separate them by religious differences.

You said Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi did not do right to the Rohingya people in Myanmar due to religious differences, but you are doing the same thing to the Shugden Buddhists within your own society. There is a parallel in this. You separate the Shugden Buddhists from the others in Tibetan society.

You have lost so many people who would have loved and supported you. You have lost so much support around the world. The Shugden Buddhists who love you number in the millions. When you are fast losing support from governments and private people, it will not do you well to lose more.

After you are passed away in the future, the rift you created between the Dorje Shugden and non-Dorje Shugden people will remain for a while and that will be your legacy. Disharmony. You will be remembered for this. Not as a hero but a disharmony creator.

Dorje Shugden will spread and further grow, but you will be no more as you are a human. No one wishes you bad and in fact we hope you have a long and healthy life, but we have lost so much hope and have so much despair because of you. All the hundreds of Dorje Shugden lamas, tulkus and geshes are maturing and there are hundreds of Dorje Shugden monasteries in Tibet who will not give up Dorje Shugden. You have made a mistake. These hundreds of teachers and teachers to be will spread Dorje Shugden further in the future.

The gurus that gave us Dorje Shugden as a spiritual practice and you have called these holy gurus wrong and they are mistaken in giving us Dorje Shugden. How can you insult our gurus whom we respect so much? If they can be wrong, then you can be wrong. Then all gurus can be wrong. So no one needs to listen to any guru? You have created this trend. It is not healthy. Your own gurus practiced Dorje Shugden their whole lives. Your own gurus were exemplary and highly learned.

Dalai Lama you have created so much pain with this ban against so many people due to religion. You are ageing fast. Are you going to do anything about it or stay stubborn, hard and un-moving. You show a smile and preach peace and harmony wherever you go. But will you do the same to your own people? Please rectify the wrong you have done. Please before it is too late. You can create harmony again or you can pass away in the future with this legacy of peace. May you live long and think carefully and admit what was a mistake in having this unethical ban against Dorje Shugden religion.

Besides that, there is the threat of violence against those who practice Dorje Shugden and especially against those who dare to question the ban,

But, being a Buddhist, one must be more aware and tend towards the teachings of the Buddha for peace, harmony and compassion. As the Dalai Lama is always encouraging harmony between religions, surely that harmony can be extended within Buddhism itself?

As the article says – ” the protests go way beyond just the interests of Western Buddhists protecting their rights – they are also an act of compassion for those who have no voice against their oppressors.”

Coming from a feudal system in Tibet, the people in exile dare not speak up for what they are actually rightfully entitled…..religious freedom. The Dalai Lama had long been viewed as the religious head of Tibet and his word would be rule to follow. Thus the gradual exposure to living in other countries and with the support of Western protesters, the Tibetan Shugden practitioners will find more courage to be more vocal and stand up for their rights.

The anti-Shugden people are so narrow minded that they only focus on whether one is a Shugden practitioner or not. I feel that they really demean the Tibetan Buddhist religion as this beautiful religion encompasses so much more than just a protector practice. As Ven. Kelsang Ananda experienced, once they know you practice Shugden, it negate everything that you are practicing. How ignorant!

This interview certainly will help the readers to understand better and maybe for some, to do more research of their own to understand and don’t judge Shugden practitioners just on the face of good PR that hides the ugliness behind.

In unity may the Shugden ban be swiftly lifted!

Very good to hear about the Tibetans are making themselves heard, and are more assertive now when they demonstrate against the Dalai Lama. Hope there will be more protest to highlight the ban on Dorje Shudgen again soon.

1) To give the Tibetans more confident to request the Dalai Lama for religious and personal freedom.

2) To highlight the discrimination and sufferings and schism among Buddhist communities created with the Ban

3) To educate the world of the powerful PR created by the pro Dalai Lama people that what they know is really not the whole truth.

This insightful interview is the personification of a Shugden practitioner who thinks and speak with compassion, respect and goodwill in mind.

My personal opinion is that Demon worshippers do not conduct themselves with such grace.