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.

But, looking at how the election in the Tibetan community in India has come along, it is clear that the younger generation of Tibetans are learning to be more proactive and educating themselves on the web. It will take time for the new Tibetans to mature politically, so therefore, unfortunately, the CTA will still be up to their tricks to get things done their way.

So, a simple app like wechat can make so much difference. Hopefully, there will be more positive advancement rather than a move for mischief.

I do wonder however, why had the power still remain with Sikyong Losang Sangye and Penpa Tsering for this election? All I can guess would be that even with the Whatsapp chats or other platforms, the Tibetans-in-exile are still new to the ways of politics and have not found their voice yet. The youths who would play an important role in the years to come should really educate themselves on the political system of successful countries and their policies to unite their people. They should learn to be people centric and not treat anyone as fools to be controlled. Most of all to practice human rights and freedom of choice. Then, only then will they gain the force of the people’s approval to do great things.

I see that the youths will not be as entrenched in religious beliefs as their older generation but I do hope they will maintain religious freedom for all without any illogical ban as with Protector Dorje Shugden.

The modern ways of communication can be progress if used to disseminate information with good intention but can be also mistreated by unscrupulous people or organisation with ill intent. May the minds who uses, be blessed to be always mindful to others’ happiness.

Perhaps, the discrimination and further instigation by CTA is a guise to ban freedom of speech because if the ugly truth of Tibetan leadership and their heavy-handed tactics were disclosed, it will be difficult for them to pull wool over the eyes of Tibetans. A government that attempt to implement democracy within the exiled community yet banning Dorje Shugden practitioners from political discussions for the betterment of their countrymen on Tibetan chat groups. It is certainly a double standard practice, nowhere near being democratic.

Tibetan electorate is scattered in 13 countries. In the effort to embrace technology, chat groups were setup to foster closer relationships between the people and these chat groups include members from India and abroad. While it is impressive that the chat groups are well organised and have a president and vice-president who conduct discussions in an orderly manner, but it is equally disappointing on how some groups made rule that an invitee must provide brief self-introduction and vow that they were not followers of Dorji Shugden.

Social media and new technology, like WeChat can serve as a platform for new channel of interactions among people. It is useful to collect information and garner trust (or vote). But beware of dirty techniques used to dissemination of false or misleading information as it lacks gatekeeping and verification processes of the traditional media. Considering the lack of reasoning of the general Tibetan, this could be misused to cause more suffering on Shugdenpa.

CTA policies have been self serving all this while, this includes CTA’s gung ho attitude to implement the Dorje Shugden ban, in fact I think they never thought much about implementing the ban. Not thinking for a person in power is damaging to the country, the people and the institution they represent.

The banning of Dorje Shugden practises, the changing of policies for selfish agenda, the restrictions of travelling, etc. are not signs of democracy. Also, there is the restriction of speech which is evident in the election process where Mr. Lukar Jam couldn’t continue to campaign due to his different view from His Holiness.

The CTA has created so much disharmony and segregation within the Tibetan community since the banning of Dorje Shugden practices than before for not executing democracy to the extent to disappoint their state protector and to risk His Holiness’s life! The disappointment of the protector is valid and for the benefit of the Tibetan people.

The CTA should buck up their actions and take serious considerations of their protector’s advice, and most importantly to execute democracy and do their work in solving the Tibetan cause (whatever it is).