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.

Dharamsala should stop using own people who are loyal as pawns to play dirty politics and create a show so shallow. Life of people is precious. Stop playing with it.

If suicide and euthanasia is frowned on by Buddhists, then by the same reasoning, self-immolation should be frowned on.

And, is the motivation for this act one of benefit to sentient beings? Therefore, this act is very difficult to be of help and have results.

The old way is to have compassion and kindness and mindfulness as the core of the Tibetan values but wisdom is also needed. Therefore, it is the duty of the government and monasteries to give secular education on the basic human rights and for the monasteries to bring the dharma to the Tibetans.

Does the action result in the intent? The crowd would have watched in horror, with some tearing. Definitely their family will be heart broken. But sorry to say, as the article mentioned, China and the world are still silent, unmoved. CTA is certainly unmoved as they ignorantly equate these acts as “glorious” which effectively encourages more to commit these sinful acts in the future. Its liken to the terrorists who encourage human bomb as holy act against the Christians.

Another thing that I wish to bring up is that in Buddhism we have been taught to be unattached to worldly things. Yet why are religious Tibetans displaying such heavy attachment to “their” country? Such heavy attachment that some are willing to “kill” themselves to “win” back what in their mind is theirs. After more than 50 years, this attachments is still as strong as ever. I shudder to think of what realm they may go to, especially those who had done so much negative actions in the name of “free Tibet”.

I wish the Dalai Lama will speak up on the wrongness of self-immolation and also on the wrong views held by his people, especially CTA who espouses so many wrong acts. Such contradiction of “Tibetan are kind and compassionate Buddhists”. Hmm…could it be that we had been trapped in our perception and now see what is real?

I can’t be sure of all the Tibetans who have taken their lives, have compassion as their last thought. I hope many of them do. One thing is for sure, the immolations is not having the results intended. The Chinese may be somewhat embarrassed, but immolations is not moving the Chinese an iota towards giving Tibetan any room for negotiations or dialogue. So since it is a lost cause doing immolations, CTA and the Dalai Lama have a moral obligation to voice out the uselessness of such actions.

It is very obvious that what they have done is wrong, yet why is the issue not being raised up? Why is Samdong Rinpoche showing support to what the Tibetans are doing even though the Chinese government shows no sense of sympathy at all.

With that said, it shows that self-immolation does not work and will not help Tibet be free once again. So why still continue with whatever that they are doing then?

Through the article it only makes one wonder more. Why does the CTA not do anything to help their own citizens asking them to stop hurting themselves like that. Instead, what they CTA is doing is that they are focusing their energy to put a ban on Dorje Shugden that does not do any good to the Tibetans at all.

Due to the ban, so many families and friends have been separated. So many Tibetans are suffering because of that. Why does the CTA not target this problem and solve this internal issue first even before they look at getting their land back. The CTA’s actions are just so ironic.

It make me think of suicide attack of Muslims for Islamic cause, which is always misled by selfish politicians who want to achieve their personal agenda or goal, by sacrificing another human and hurting many more non-Muslim and Muslim in the same destructive way.

However, Tibetan leadership is so “successful” that when you voice up concern that against self-immolation, you would most probably invite fierce attacks from Tibetans. They would think you are against their Tibetan cause. To say self-immolation is un-Buddhist would definitely make you being labelled as “traitor” and “enemy” of Tibetans.

From my experience, you practice Dorje Shugden you are already a national-level enemy for Tibetans who buy CTA’s ideas… Because propaganda that Dorje Shugden practitioners are spies who with the only goal to harm H.H. Dalai Lama is so successful, and most of the people believe it.

However, what should be said should not keep it. It’s saying with the goal to get different types of voices coming out in the opinion market. It’s one of the way to open up our heart, listen to balanced views, and clear our ignorance. Citizens with enough knowledge and information living in a more open society, I believe can always make better decisions to benefit themselves and others. That’s another to chase away corrupted and weak leadership, and looking forward for a better tomorrow of Tibet and Tibetans.