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.

Tenzin Peljor originally registered shugden.info using his legal name, Michael Jaeckel and used the address of Bodhicharya Centre in Berlin. Later, he updated the registration of his domain (shugden.info) through the same anonymous service as shugdeninfo.com and hosted it on the same servers as shugdeninfo.com. Both domain names then had exactly the same settings. (info source: http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html)

Another clear indication is that his “independent websites” are listed as resources for journalists by the CTA/ Tibetan exile leadership, and he is promoted to journalists by Tibetan NGOs. Why would CTA do that? We all know that Tenzin Peljor is not a journalist ;D.

Tenzin Peljor’s connection with Carol McQuire, Dhardon Sharling of Department of Information & International Relations (DIIR) and the rest is also obvious. It was soon after Tenzin Peljor’s ordination in 2006 that he began to take an interest in countering the protests. He remained in India and began to assist the Tibetan government (CTA) with their disinformation campaign by editing pages on Wikipedia and became the main editor for the page about the NKT.

Marisa Save Tibet or Marisa Burns as we know is a board member of Tibetan Social Service (TSS) and has been in the Tibetan scene for almost a decade. She came into the picture after her mother’s passing in 2007 where she went to India and managed to teach a class of Geshe for the Dalai Lama’s office.

Carol McQuire is Tenzin’s recruit and in her own words, her “greatest refuge for a long while was Tenzin Peljor”. According to inside news, Carol was influenced by Tenzin Peljor to officially leave the NKT by disrobing in September 2007. She admitted that Tenzin Peljor primarily attacks the NKT because he is, “involved in looking after the Dalai Lama’s interests in the most profound way”, aka paid by the CTA. Carol was very helpful in Tenzin’s work for the CTA that at one point, she had the rare privilege of being seated on stage with the Dalai Lama during one of the sessions at the Dalai Lama’s teachings in Basel in February 2015.

Their latest ‘work’ is the 13-minute documentary titled ‘Shugden Protesters: Allegations vs Facts’, a project that perhaps came about after the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan leadership met with NKT Survivors in Cambridge, UK on September 18, 2015.

It is very unbecoming of ‘monks’ and ‘nun’ to be harsh in their speech. They really should not be creating schism nor endorse it in any way. After all they are supposed to have renounced worldly affairs. How can anyone put faith in the speech of such ‘monks’ and ‘nun’. It would be very foolish indeed to believe them.

As a Buddhist, not to mention monks or nuns, one has to practice mindfulness. Hope this is not the new low level of Tibetan Buddhism.

Thanks, Ms Beswick for the insightful article.

CTA should really concentrate their efforts on creating unity and lift their people out of the state of “refugees” with all the donations and sponsorships that they receive. Otherwise the Dalai Lama’s dream of returning to Tibet will never be realized. Why? How could bad karma bring good results?

@Marissa saveTibet and @Carol McQuirre, you should really stop participating in creating more conflicts and insults towards the Shugden practitioners, especially the highly attained Lamas. As Carol knows, it straight to hell (as Buddha had taught). Ignorance is never an excuse. You may have created a lot bad karma to date but you do not have to continue creating more. Its all your choice and actions.

The CTA has gone too far and they must be stopped starting with the ban on Dorje Shugden. THe corruption can only spread because the CTA was permitted by the public to continue the wrong against Dorje Shugden practitioners. This gave them the courage to do more wrong. I am happy to see leaders like Maura Moynihan and Dana Rohrabacher calling on the CTA for their misrepresentation and suspicion of corruption.

No sane human being who was so traumatised by her experience in a place would keep talk and talking and talking about it… yes and we all know who she is talking about — her own ex-temple NKT. If really if you are sane and you practice Dharma, you would just let it go and quietly do your practice. But not Carol and gang they would find every means and ways to publish anything negative about the NKT and keep on asking is Geshela is dead so that they could rejoice perhaps?

It is quite despicable to see this because it is an exploration of people’s faith and trust in His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Sooner or later people will find out and they will speak up and I think they have already started.

Setting up websites or Facebook page to denigrate people of different faiths, spiritual leaders of other beliefs; putting people down based on their religious practice are actions of immature individuals. These individuals are no other than the CTA, the childish bunch who are the source of income for websites like this.

Also, the CTA hire the group at We Need To Talk About Shugden among many other things they do to suppress the Dorje Shugden people. For the last 60 years, the CTA has been investing in these petty actions buying time to cover their incapabilities in taking care of their fellow Tibetans.

The purpose is clear for this website to further discriminate and segregate the Tibetan people. Supporting the website will only bring more harm to the already suffering Tibetans.