Dorje Shugden is protecting the pure lineage teachings of Lama Tsongkapa and the seemingly “attacks/killings” are actually ripening of the misguided being’s karma for trying to contaminate/pollute the pure teachings. If HH Pabongka Rinpoche, an attained and highly regarded Guru, were to introduce wrongful practise to Gelugpa’s practises, he could have caused much harm to many as they would have followed his teachings based on faith of his attainments. At the same time, with HH Pabongka Rinpoche taking the advice of Dorje Shugden, he had shown the reliability of the Protector in keeping the lineage teachings pure.

With the understanding that the Dalai Lama wish to take on certain teachings from the Nyingma tradition, it is no wonder the claims of Lord Dorje Shugden’s practise will shorten his life. Was he worried that in polluting his practises, the Protector will bring down wrathful actions to kill him? So instead, the Dalai Lama takes the action of banning the Protector, creating schism and all sorts of harmful actions to cover his own wrongful act. How worldly is that? Or could it be a divine play to show the world how an enlightened being like Lord Dorje Shugden is not subject to karma but instead his enlightened activities proliferated to every corner of the world?

At the period when Dorje Shugdeh practices was just started to take root, it may seems that Dorje Shugden was punishing the high lamas & practitioners for abandoning the Gelug teachings by causing great suffering & tragedy to their lives. In fact Dorje Shugden was acting out of compassion to keep reminding them the importance of purity of practice, not to practise mixing lineages which will bring confusions, hindrance in progress & later abandonment of the Dharma completely.

Not only Dorje Shugden has sworn to safeguard the integrity of the Gelug Teaching, his protection has even extended towards practitioners of other school ( e.g. certain Nyingma monasteries of the Nyanang Region in Tibet who received their DS practices from the Great Fifth Dalai Lama).

This great compassion & unbiased attitude are certainly some of the qualities found only in highly attained or enlightened being & nothing short of that.

This is the kind of speaking that scares ordinary Buddhists like myself. Why is mixing teachings from traditions (that have, incidentally, students have mixed teachings from for centuries) corupting practice? How do you know this would ‘definitely harm them’? I know many people who have learned from both Gelug and Nyingma teachers and practice well. Purity or mixing is a question of individual preference (or student or teacher) not an absolute dictat. Traditions have not been static but change.

Most Tibetan schools (I don’t know much about the Sakya path) follow very similar preliminary teachings in learning about precious human life, karma, impermanence etc. Nyingmas clearly follow a different approach to emptiness but the tantric practices of all traditions are not disimilar and tantric deities and even dharma protectors (with the exception of the sectarian Shugden) are often used by more than one tradition.

Does not the fact that a protector might cause chest pains and illness in a human being who wants to learn from a different school (which has more similarities than differences to the Gelug/Kadampa tradition) worry anyone?

If you want to just learn Gelug teachings then please do. They are clearly excellent. Why, though, insist that everyone does the same and venerate a dharma protector who harms people for doing so? I believe that the campaign against he Dalai Lama is against religious restrictions yet Shugden worship seems to actively encourage a protector to cause harm for those who choose the religious freedom to take teachings from two schools, neither of which places that restriction on its students. Can no one see the hypocrisy in this?

Why the uproar and upheaval 7 years later? So much was said about bodhisattva killing, but the Dalai Lama is a highly learned person. This is a borrowed excuse.

George Dreyfus was certainly wrong about The Yellow Book.

I will now refute this purported cause of the ban being imposed by the Dalai Lama. I will zero in on the “killing” by Dorje Shugden of various high influential Lamas. By mixing and corrupting their practice, these lamas were actually acting against the growth of Dharma; in fact they were destroying the Dharma which is the hope and lifeline of every being to achieve true ultimate peace and freedom from suffering. Being influential, they actually would influence their followers to follow their wrong practices which will definitely harm them. So in causing their deaths, he was actually protecting them and others and preventing them from committing gross transgressions.

Other bodhisattvas, have done the same, including the Buddha himself. When he was a ship’s captain, in a previous life, he had to kill a would-be-assassin of 500 merchants on board the ship. In this way, he prevented them all from accruing the heavy negative karma of killing(the merchants, were they to come to know his intentions, would have killed him). In the Bodhisattva Vows, under Moral Discipline, it is an act of moral discipline to abandon the Refuge vow of killing, when universal compassion deems it necessary for you to do so.

I think that a more pertinent question is after reading the Yellow Book:

“Unfortunately, the event was poorly documented but Georges Dreyfus and other Tibetologists attribute the start of the Dalai Lama’s ‘displeasure’ of Dorje Shugden to this period.” – IS THIS ACCURATE?

“In conclusion, the stories in the Yellow Book are to be regarded as cautionary tales – fact not fable – that are meant to set an example to discourage the mixing of lineages. This is especially important for ordinary practitioners who can get confused easily when receiving teachings from different sources and lineages. Confusion leads to disillusionment and abandonment of practice or the Dharma. Dorje Shugden would want nothing of that sort for any practitioner, and works skillfully and swift to protect the Dharma at all costs.” – OR IS THIS THE REAL AND ONLY REASON FOR THE YELLOW BOOK?

Look at the time lapsed between the writing of the notes 1970 to the publication 1973 and the reaction of Dalai Lama 1976!? Too long for a reaction isn’t considering the “evilness” of Dorje Shugden… Interesting contemplation!

Many highly attained lamas, scholars are also listed down, and what actually happen when they started to combined the teaching. The practice were being introduced wrongly and because most of them are attained Lama and Scholars, what they do, people will follow, hence it will bring more harm to the Dharma and to themselves.

In fact Protectors had indicated to them to stop it, but because of the negative Karma created, they have to suffer and go through the consequence. In some cases, they have short life, but the reason of it can be lesser time for them to create more negative Karma and to reinforce the negative habit.

We can go to this link and read Page 112 and 113, the example of “Jedrung Lozang
Trinley”

http://www.dorjeshugden.com/articles/musicdelighting.pdf