http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=9441887
everyone support the reporter Lisa, and write comment below on there web site. ( link above) let her know, the facts.
I just commented on the article below!... All Shugden practitioners should get on there and speak your mind, and debate on the false p resentations of facts on comments left by other people there. People need to know the truth. If you want to do something to bring the ban down, then this is one of the ways to. We need to let people know the truth!
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To the reporter and media, thank you for bringing light to the Shugden issue. It is long overdue.
The Dalai Lama has always stressed on peace, and freedom too, but has imposed a ban that denies practitioners of Dorje Shugden that basic right because practising Dorje Shugden whom he claims is a spirit, will shorten his life. That is quite hilarious to say, for if someone like the Dalai Lama, who is one with the Buddha Chenrezig (Buddha of Compassion) and is very highly attained in his practise, can have his life shorten because of other people doing a certain practise, then why take refuge in the three jewels at all if a Buddha such as His Holiness can be harmed by a spirit?
Dorje Shugden's practise is not to override the teachings of the Buddha, but to complement one's spiritual practise. Dorje Shugden arose as a protector to protect the teaching of the middle view of Nagarjuna which Lama Tsongkhapa, also known as the second Buddha, taught so brilliantly. And for the record, it was Nechung, the state oracle of Tibet, whom His Holiness consults regularly, who requested Dulzin Drakpa Gyeltsen to arise as a protector when the time comes to protect these teachings. So, then, was the state oracle of Tibet wrong? If so, why is His Holiness still consulting Nechung?
Practitioners of Dorje Shugden are still practising the very essence of Buddhism, just as Buddha taught, what makes you think otherwise? If that's the case, then why do people have practises of yidams such as Vajrayogini, Heruka, Yamantaka, Tara. It is because it is complementary to their spiritual practise.
And what proof do you have of Dorje Shugden practitioners engaging in violent persecutions of other sects? What about the recent attack in Shar Gaden Monastery BY the Central Tibetan Adminstration, the camp of His Holiness, on a pure, holy old Shugden monk?