What I gathered from reading this article, Serpom’s determination to continue the lineage of Je Tsongkhapa in its purest form has given them the tenacity and resilience to the hardship they had to endure. Although the condition has improved significantly now in comparison to before, the discrimination issue still exist.

Regardless, I see strength in this group of loyal sanghas through their results. They will emerge and advance into a great monastery in the future. Like Shar Gaden, Serpom will produce Shugden geshes and lamas who will spread DS practice worldwide and eventually contributes towards lifting the ban.

I find it absolutely absurd about the water pump being polluted by practitioners of Dorje Shugden. This does not accord with the teachings of the Buddha at all, but is a sign that those who are upholding this ban have NO idea what they are doing or practicing and how this accords more to the values of mere superstition than anything else.

It is so silly that the water pump has to be separated, cannot eat at the same canteen; it is ridiculous that Kensur Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche was denied food and drink at Sera Mey monastery even though he was the one who single-handedly raise all the funds needed for the monastery to be rebuilt!

If DS practitioners are seen “dirty”, all the Sera Mey monastery monks should rebuild another Sera Mey somewhere else since this original one was fully sponsored and built by all DS monks: Gangchen Rinpoche, Panglung Rinpoche, Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche! How come the monks still remain in Sera Mey?

What do we see from here? Childish act with self-cherishing mind. They conveniently keep what they needed and basically put the DS practitioners into dead end, regardless of what will happen to them. How sad and unreasonable this is!

The ban MUST be lifted!!!

Compassion is the most important value taught by Buddha, where is compassion in this case shown to the DS monks? The Sera Mey Monastery is indirectly teaching people to be intolerant which is against the Buddhist teachings. Their action creates doubt in people on Dharma.

I hope Sera Mey monastery can see the negative consequence they bring to Dharma and stop behaving like a ignorant child.

One of the basic vows is “no lying”, but CTA being a Buddhism based administration, is lying all the way even to their own people. Tibetans are already lost their “country” and now residing in other people’s country, and if this is not time for compassion towards own people, then when is the right time??

In what state of mind would monks choose to separate from their mother monastery, and suffer such ill treatment and conditions within their own homes? If there was religious freedom, there would not be segregation. If there was no ban on the practise of Dorje Shugden, why has it split the Tibetan community into two? So who has such power to exercise this, if not for the CTA and His Holiness? You cannot deny that there is no bad, when all evidences is clear, and that people are realising this discrimination and speaking out against it, even the Tibetan youth.

Serpom monastery has silently suffered so much, yet they brace it all and rise above the hardships to stay true to their practise and lineage. They make do with what they have with the needs of the monastery. It is sad to see the way that they are treated, the rubbish strewn all across the entrance to Serpom, the water pump not being shared because people actually believe the false ideology that DS people will contaminate the water. You know what, the violence shown towards ds monks (http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/features/tibetan-leadership-organizes-violence/) is far worst than sharing facilities, and thinking that it is unclean. The vows that have been broken, the sufferings that has arisen, the disruption of unity…is all caused by the ban. So, it isn’t because that people practise DS which hinders the movement of Tibet. It is BECAUSE THERE IS A BAN, which hinders the Tibetan cause.

Monasteries like Serpom and Shar Gaden really need public support and funding from across the world, because their own government would not assist them. These monks are real monks who practise despite the issues faced, and the threats to their lives. These monks uphold and propagate the pure lineage of Lama Tsongkhapa without violence, and with so much devotion to their gurus. If Sera Mey thinks that anything associated with DS practitioners are unclean and not pure, then dorjeshugden.com, you are right, they should return everything that has been generously donated to them and raised by DS lamas for the growth of the monastery. Afterall, anything that goes through their hands are ‘unclean’…so if Sera Mey monks are still utilising the facilities and buildings generously donated by DS lamas too, aren’t they silently supporting DS practise and lamas then? They agree with what the way the sponsorship was raised, so in other words, agree with the methods used my DS lamas, and the practises that they do which have assisted these lamas… funny logic they have.