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.

It is true that the Dalai Lama must be the best politician in the world, as the world leaders were beguiled into accepting his facade of compassion and humility whilst his actions belied his teachings. After 20 years of these travesty, the Dalai Lama and CTA are still instigating monks and their followers to take actions against Shugden practitioners. As it is, much sufferings had been inflicted on the Shugden Lamas and practitioners where they are physically and verbally abused, threaten and in fear of their lives, segregated and denied entries into hospital, sundry shops, schools, etc., denied their papers for travel and denied of any financial aids from the millions sponsored for support the Tibetans-In-Exile.

Thank you dorjeshugden.com for bringing us the truth that are usually white-washed for the public. We certainly wouldn’t have known that there were policemen with rifles and monks had iron bars or clubs surrounding the monks, threatening those who defied the ban and vote stick referendum. So what freedom are the Dalai Lama and CTA practising when the monks are threaten and forced against their wills to vote for the yellow stick? When will the Dalai Lama manifests his true Buddha nature to lift the illegal and illogical ban on Dorje Shugden. It has gone beyond a ban on a Protector practise and is hurting the very core of the pure lineage teachings and practises.

Monks of Ganden Shartse and Sera Mey monasteries were forced to abandon their oath to their teachers and sown not to worship Dorje Shugden anymore. An absurd voting process, called the ‘vote stick referendum’ was designed just to manipulate the monks into renouncing their oath and vow. In the so-called voting process, monks who did not wish to share spiritual and material relations with Dorje Shugden followers would pick the yellow-colored vote-stick and those who chose to continue their Dorje Shugden worship were asked to choose the red-colored vote-stick.

Those who chose the red stick will be expelled and ostracized and labelled anti-Dalai Lama. All these hurt and pain imposed on sangha community by the single person who lauded by the world as a beloved defender of peace, tolerance and compassion, how ironic?

Some people have left comments that some monks who voted against the practice of Dorje Shugden did so out of fear. And I am not surprised that some did. Having spent the majority of their lives in the monastic environment, they would have surely felt afraid that they would lose everything they know, their teachers, their home. I’m a sure that some of the monks who stayed behind in their monasteries still practice Dorje Shugden privately.

From very visible signboards displayed at store fronts to notification imposing that Dorje Shugden practitoners cannot join the medical team of the Men-tse-khang (tibetan medical institution ) to the emotional trauma when families ties are severed because of the Dorje Shugden controversy, we cannot deny the existence of this violent regulation against the practice of Dorje Shugden. This is not to mention that physical assaults against Dorje Shugden practitioner including Gen Chonze who takes care of Trijang Rinpoche’s ladrang in Dharamsala.

Why are people pretending that everything is fine and Tibet is still this peaceful world of spiritual awakening, rich in compassion and wisdom? The benefit is certainly one that is political and economical.

As the nature of these worldly phenomena are impermanent, it is only normal and expected that the winds will change this is exactly what is happening now as China become the world’spreferences partner and the world would do anything to be in China’s good books… including abandoning his Holiness.

It is time to end this karma. It is time to practice dharma.and push for the ban to be lifted and encourage practitioners to focus on pure dharma and not politics and secular gains.

I agree with the article that it is obvious that monks were not given a real choice. How do you vote for Dorje Shugden if your livelihood was on the line, and you know that once you made that choice, you will have no more acccess to benefits/ welfare like medical, travel documents, and other privileges. You know that once you made that choice you will be expelled from your monastery and subsequently your family may also abandon you. What is worse is that this referendum was held with much intimidation and coercion.

It is not a matter of ‘personal choice’ or advice, because once you made that choice, it is not only about you. Others had signed the oath to not share material amenities of life. They are also not allowed to associate with you. So you know that you chose the card to ‘doom’.

Practitioners of Dorje Shugden received a commitment to do this practice from their teachers like Trijang Rinpoche, Zong Rinpoche, and etc. To force them to vote against the practice is to force the students to abandon their teachers’ advice by voting in favor of the ban to be politically correct. That is purely politics and in this case, CTA definitely does not practice religious freedom as written in their charter. But again, why am I surprise at CTA’s mis-behaviour?