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.

I cannot understand how a Nobel Peace Prize winner can ask for respect for these murderous bunch. What baffles me even more is that Buddhism teaches equality for all sentient beings. It teaches us to love and be kind to sentient beings, even animals. If we are supposed to be kind to animals, we should also be kind to human beings. And, by that I do mean the victims of ISIS. No one should be able to say that the end justifies the means here. No killing should ever be condoned.

Now, I begin to see why the CTA has not spoken against those who have threatened violence against Shugden practitioners. I think they even encourage the violence hoping to instill fear and submission from the Shugdenpas. Buddhism is degenerating among the Tibetan and it is very disheartening.

Thank you for this article. I found the Dalai Lama’s suggestion on ISIS quite unthinkable. Few words from him can help to move his supporters to condemn what ISIS did. I don’t quite understand why the Dalai Lama preached tolerance toward the ISIS who clearly have done many terrible things and yet he condemn the Shugden Buddhist without mercy.

I hope the Dalai Lama and his administration send the right message to the world.

Michaela

Something seriously needs to be checked up and investigated here. Why is the Dalai Lama so harsh with His own people and seem so lenient with others even terrorist. I would accept this if the Dalai Lama did not persecute His own people. I would then really believe He is Buddha of Compassion like what all the rest of His sheep like followers say so but when the Dalai Lama does something like this, He is in fact telling us He is not really Buddha of Compassion.

Well maybe this is all a divine play some may say and this is His way to filter out all the good, the bad, the loyal one and the corrupt ones, perhaps so, but at this moment my believe in His way of treating His own people is really on the negative end which put all His teachings, all His fund raising and all His charitable works in question. Just what exactly Has the Dalai Lama accomplished in this life?

He failed to protect His country, He failed to bring solidarity to His people, He failed to improve the welfare of exile Tibetans and now He faiedl in even teaching because He says His Gurus are all wrong and well Guru Devotion and keeping your commitments is not important and basically contradicts the whole Vajrayana teachings.

The only thing He has succeeded in doing is becoming a media darling which is dwindling as perhaps making Tiebtan Buddhism well known and now Dorje Shugden too. I guess you could say He is “promoting” the Dharma one way or another.

Speaking of dialogue, I understood from the protests and news that the Dalai Lama does not wish to grant dialogue to Dorje Shugden practitioners. What I don’t understand is why as the spiritual leader of Tibet/Tibetans, The Dalai Lama does not wish to have dialogue to resolve an issue within his own religious domain? It really makes Buddhism look bad. I’ve also saw video of Dalai Lama saying his teachers are wrong. So if his teachers are wrong, then what he learnt is wrong. So that means Tibetan Buddhism and Dalai Lama’s teachings are not valid source of Buddhism, then the Dalai Lama should stop teaching Tibetan Buddhism to the world, and just teach the Tibetans.

Perhaps Buddhism is better off with Theravada and Mahayana traditions, and less scandals and politics with Tibetan lamas? The world is already very confused with the 2 Panchen Lamas, the 2 Karmapas, and now we have the Dalai Lama said his lineage and teacher is wrong, and supporting ISIS? Mind-blowing (pun intended).

And while you’re at it, how about directing a little of that compassion our way too, you know, to the Shugden practitioners, 4 mil of whom are actually YOUR people!