Comments on: Tibetan MP Tenpa Yarphel asks if the Dorje Shugden ban has harmed or benefited the Tibetan community

By: Choekey

Choekey — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:45:38 +0000

Dorje Shugden ban brings no benefit to the Tibetans or the free Tibet movement. The ban only breaks the Tibetan community and the Buddhist community apart, creates more conflicts and mistrust among people. Without harmony and unity, how to make the free Tibet movement a successful one? There is no wonder after 60 years, the CTA is still struggling to fight to free Tibet.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:32:08 +0000

It is not easy to see a Tibetan MP willing to take the risk, to tell the truth. Such heroes are very rare in the Tibetan community because anyone who has a different opinion from His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be labelled a traitor or Chinese spy.

It is very important for the Tibetan community to have people like this MP because then the truth that needed to be told will not be buried. Dorje Shugden ban is a taboo in the Tibetan community since His Holiness has laid the ban on the practice. There are many people who suffered unnecessarily due to the ban.

However, the ban is illogical and we need brave people to stand up against injustice and speak the truth.

By: John

John — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 05:07:32 +0000

Not only Tenpa Yarphel but all Tibetans should ask what the benefits and results after banning Shugden practice for 23 years? What has CTA achieve from the ban? Why Dalai Lama and Tibetans still not able to return to Tibet? What happens to Tibetan cause as Shugden practice has been ban and there should be no threat anymore.

All Tibetans should voice up and evaluate the outcome from CTA and see how effective the action being implemented. Tibetan is just about CTA but is for all Tibetan as a whole. Everyone should have a concern and speak up for their own care and interest.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 08:33:47 +0000

Dorje Shugden followers are not violent in nature, they have never created any problem to anyone before the ban was imposed and after the ban was imposed. Dorje Shugden lamas had contributed so much to the preservation of spreading of Tibetan Buddhism. Great masters such as the previous Trijang Rinpoche and Zong Rinpoche had passed their knowledge to so many contemporary masters after the Tibetans escaped from Tibet to India in 1959.

Dorje Shugden followers don’t hate the Dalai Lama. They respect the Dalai Lama a lot. What they don’t understand is why the Dalai Lama impose the ban on Dorje Shuden pratice? Why were they made to choose one or another? It is very painful to them to have to make the choice.

Dorje Shugden practice has been around for the past 300-400 year. Dorje Shugden followers have not been a trouble makers, they just want to practice what the teachers have given them. They should be given the right to practise what they want. CTA has to stop segregating its own people.

By: Tenpa Yari

Tenpa Yari — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 05:19:24 +0000

I respect Tenpa Yarphel very much for his open mind that sees things in a wide view. It’s not about you practice Dorje Shugden or not but what is the outcome of the ban that brings any benefit to Tibetan as a whole?

Tibetan political should be managed with an open mind and respect. CTA never works in such a way and that’s is why they never move up. Tenpa Yarphel is a very objective person and I believe he should be a result-oriented person. Tibetan government should have this type of person to look after the Tibetan and represent Dalai Lama.

By: Pema

Pema — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:38:44 +0000

At last, someone really thinks it over and finally speak up!
Tenpa Yarphel said something that not everyone doesn’t know but is out of so many people he brought up for attention. What he said is logical and should be questioned by everyone.

Was the ban benefited? And how it able to help?

Check the result and if the answer is negative then people have to question the CTA because it had caused so much suffering to so many people around the world.

Tibetan must be truthful in order to get support.

By: Chodag

Chodag — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:23:13 +0000

Tenpa Yarphel is the future of Tibetan. This attitude will bring Tibetan to another level instead of just blindly follow. Look at how Tenpa Yarphel analyses Dorje Shugden ban. He sees the end result and be practical to question what had the ban achieved?

He looks at the bigger picture of what important and what needs to be achieved for Tibetan not looking into what protector practice to be ban than Tibetan cause will be achieved.

This type of people that should lead Tibetan and we need more of him.

By: Tenzin K

Tenzin K — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 02:54:16 +0000

There to go. Tenpa Yarphel speaks up and asks the CTA to check the result of Shugden ban whether it bring any benefit. For 20 years of ban many people have lost their freedom, family, spirituality, human rights, religious freedom and etc. We only see the negative impact which is ridiculous that CTA implement in at this duration.

By: Ngawang Jigme

Ngawang Jigme — Fri, 31 May 2019 17:06:38 +0000

Unlike 5 years ago, Tibetan leader Lobsang Sangay is not invited to Prime Minister Modi’s swearing-in ceremony this time. It is clear that PM Modi of India snubs the Tibetan leadership once again in favour of deeper ties with China. The Tibetan leadership finds itself increasingly isolated as nobody wants to offend China by lending any support to the ungrateful Tibetans.

PM Modi snubs Tibetan leadership for swearing-in ceremony
By Tenzin Dharpo
May. 30, 2019
DHARAMSHALA, May 30: The Indian Prime Minister who is fresh off of a massive win in the Indian Lok Sabha elections has done a U-turn by not inviting exile Tibetan government’s President to the swearing in ceremony due to be held later today, in a bid to not anger Beijing.
The President of the exile Tibetan government, known officially as the Central Tibetan Administration, Dr. Lobsang Sangay’s absence today at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi marks a stark contrast to 2014 when the elected Tibetan leader was seated in the former rows at the ceremony when PM Modi was sworn into office the first time around.
The invitation to Dr. Sangay in May 2014 drew strong objection from the Chinese government who lodged an official protest censuring New Delhi’s disregard for the so-called ‘One-China policy’. Many said at the time that the invite was posturing at most, of Modi’s intent to India’s neighbor and biggest rivals both in Asia and global arenas.
The New Delhi-Beijing relations post the Doklam stand off and Wuhan summit has meant that India has given a cold shoulder to the exile Tibetan set up, thereby taking a step back in using the much-touted ‘Tibet card’. The shift in policy has markedly been seen on the ground with New Delhi issuing an advisory to senior leaders to avoid His Holiness the Dalai Lama or pushing the CTA to shift the “thank you India” ceremony from New Delhi to Dharamshala last year.
The head of the Tibetan polity who extended pleasantries to PM Modi on his win, however may have anticipated the snub. Days after Modi’s historic election win, Sangay flew to the United States and is scheduled to return on June 5 to India next week.
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=41474&article=PM+Modi+snubs+Tibetan+leadership+for+swearing-in+ceremony

By: Tenzin K

Tenzin K — Mon, 20 May 2019 14:43:24 +0000

Tenpa Yarphel is one of the heroes for Tibetan that speak up for the benefit of Tibetans. Even though he knows that it is not easy to change their attitude but at very least he speaks up for Tibetans. He willing to speak up even though he knows CTA will not be happy and his life may be in danger.

When people like Tenpa Yarphe talk, his motivation is about Tibetan interest, how to achieve for Tibetan as a whole. He’s very objective and able to think wide. I hope CTA didn’t hurt him in any way. Tibet future relly on people like him.