I fully agreed with kris that there are many website and shops selling Buddha Shakyamuni. This is the only place where sells DS stuff! Frankly speaking, all these while I have only Buddha Shakyamuni on my altar and I am thankful now with eshop, I can add DS on my altar. I believe it must be I have been praying a lot to shakyamuni that he supports and blesses me to find the DS statues and items now in this eshop.
@Tenzin Gyatso, regarding your point that “Dalai Lama is going all out to speak against Dhogyal. So what motive can he have? ” I believe he is for a bigger picture! I respect HH DL a lot. I have been following HH quotes and teachings regularly too. For example, one of his quotes “If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.” If HH is not someone with great compassion, he would not have said something like the above.
However, this is contradicting to his ban to DS. Practitioners of DS are also severed from all voting rights, education, social welfare, medical aid or even social interaction with their fellow Tibetan citizens! At first, this causes a lot of confusion to me on why HH who is so compassionate would harm others. This is not logical at all! After reading the posts from here and other places, I started to believe what HH is doing is for a greater picture! As I can see, due to his ban on DS, more people get to know DS and practice Buddhism. This is really a great example of skillful means! Don’t you think so too?
