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.

Instead of being there for the people and the country, the CTA is not making decision to improve the situation and how to find solutions long term but the government himself hinders its very own people by creating difficulties based on religion.

How can a government act like this? Isn’t there enough problems inside Tibet to address. Improving the situation of Tibetans inside and outside Tibet. How can the self-immolations be stopped, how can harmony be created? Respecting the different sects of Buddhism instead of creating a big mess.

Thank you for this article elucidating what is happening and what the CTA is doing.

May the ban on Dorje Shugden stop swiftly and the Tibetans with its rich religious and cultural heritage soon be addressed in a beneficial way.

Our leader are not accepting to Jonangpa to kashag ( Parliament) even though Jonangpa is our Tibetan peoples religion. This is one problem. Then in India is 2 to 3 lakh of our Tibetans n maybe a few thousand more in western country n now they are burning themselves . our own people are burning for rangzen n kashag is not saying anything??

So little has improve for us since our pa la n popo la are in Buxa.

So why does His Holiness bullies His own sect? Perhaps it is just more convenient and easier because no would dare question Him even though it may appear unfair, no would say anything. Because to say something opposite would mean you’re a “traitor”! And they say there is no ban?

In reality there are sectarian even before the ban come to think of it because otherwise why are there even 4 different sects and schools of Buddhism?
This just goes to show how the Tibetan Leadership is so determine to go all out to destroy the lives of Shugden practitioners and stop the lineage from growing. Hence the ban must come down and we must create awareness regarding it till it comes down. We must not stop this injustice leadership stop harming their own people who happens to be Shugden practitioners.

No intention to disrespect these abbots, one of their resolutions was their pledge to work on establishing and strengthening unity among the Tibetan people from different provinces and sects and appeal to the leaders from other sects to address and advice on the same. I almost want to fall off my chair. There is even issues and conflicts of people from the same sects if you read the article carefully, not to mention to have unity among people from different sects.

Gelug has the Dorje Shugden issues, Kagyu still has 2 Karmapas and the forced conversion of Drukpa Kagyu monasteries, Nyingma lamas like Sogyal Rinpoche and his sex scandals, and Sakya’s confusing 3-year rotation for Sakya Trizin. The article really highlights the selectivity of the CTA when dealing with Tibetan Buddhist issues, and how their bias and prejudice have contributed to more disunity in Tibetan society. Clearly, the issue with the Dorje Shugden ban is not a religious one. The many reasons given for the ban including:
- harming the cause of Tibet – apparently Rangzen fighters are ‘worse’ than Shugden people in harming the cause of Tibet now
- threat to His Holiness’ life – Nechung said it was the “lack of unity and harmony in Tibetan community” and the leaders not having rightful intention . His Holiness recently was reported to have said he will live till 113. So why is there a Dorje Shugden ban?

One thing is for sure that is the CTA would not have expected Shugdenpas to organise and resist them as they have done for twenty years. And it was a mistake for the CTA to have tried to destroy am important lineage which has led the world to notice how defiled the Tibetan leaders in fact are. Shnagri-la this is not.