https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/the-controversy/dalai-lamas-referendum-contradicts-vinaya/ The Protector whose time has come Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/the-controversy/dalai-lamas-referendum-contradicts-vinaya/comment-page-1/#comment-16098 Arisa Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:26:01 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=2197#comment-16098 I wonder whether in the Tibetan Sangahood are you allowed to be involved in Politics. This issue looks like Politics to me. And having to vote for or against is Politics. It should be alright if lay people are involved in voting but not monks and nuns. And everyone is made to vote against their will under duress. Otherwise they will be penalise or be expelled from their Monastery. My thinking is that once you are a Sangha you would not have to be involved in this stress. Like being forced to do things against your will. The monks, the nuns and lay Tibetan people have lost their freedom of choice. I wonder whether in the Tibetan Sangahood are you allowed to be involved in Politics. This issue looks like Politics to me. And having to vote for or against is Politics. It should be alright if lay people are involved in voting but not monks and nuns. And everyone is made to vote against their will under duress. Otherwise they will be penalise or be expelled from their Monastery. My thinking is that once you are a Sangha you would not have to be involved in this stress. Like being forced to do things against your will. The monks, the nuns and lay Tibetan people have lost their freedom of choice.

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