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Title: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: dsnowlion on April 13, 2018, 06:52:17 PM
Well, it looks like our dear Tenzin Peljor has finally been exposed. He is the one that has been going around policing Buddhist teachers and their centers.

Arebuddhistsracist.com investigated this East German monk thoroughly. Tenzin Peljor claims he does it because he is part of the “NKT survivors” group that was formed to supposedly right the wrongs that they experienced in NKT. However, this is all just a façade. As arebuddhistsracist.com dug deeper, it became apparent that several of his websites were registered under different aliases and false identities. These websites published content that was one-sided and typical of the Tibetan leadership (the Central Tibetan Administration or CTA), although they all claim to be disseminating “unbiased information” regarding the Dorje Shugden issue and protests.

Upon further investigation, a clear link was discovered between Peljor and his connection to Tibet House US – a Tibetan cultural center associated with the Dalai Lama, Professor Robert Thurman, and the CTA. If we connect the dots, we soon realize why a Buddhist monk has so much time on his hands to gossip, debate and discredit other Buddhist centers and their teachers. He even has the resources to fly around the world, attending matters not even remotely connected to Buddhism, such as his trip to Ireland to discuss his Stasi background.

Overall, Peljor’s activities and discussions seem to be less about the Buddha’s teachings and more of a political agenda, one that sings to the tunes of the Tibetan leadership in-exile’s deceitful propaganda. Read on to find out more about the CTA’s puppet monk... http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html (http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html)   
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on April 14, 2018, 10:52:14 PM
Now we know where is this Stasi Peljor got his Euro50,000 with a blink for his court case with Diamond Way for slandering Lama Ole Nydahl and spreading false accusations of the center. It is clear that all the websites he has set up are meant to segregate Dorje Shugden practitioners from the Tibetan Buddhist community funded by Tibet House US. Robert Thurman is wealthy, the Tibet House he co-founded is loaded with donations from all his rich contacts, including Richard Gere. With Thurman's love to attack Dorje Shugden people on Twitter, it is no wonder he hired Stasi Peljor to attack by setting up websites to spread unsolicited claims about Dorje Shugden people. I believe in karma and we'll see soon how their karma catches them.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: PrajNa on April 15, 2018, 01:00:28 AM
Now we know where is this Stasi Peljor got his Euro50,000 with a blink for his court case with Diamond Way for slandering Lama Ole Nydahl and spreading false accusations of the center. It is clear that all the websites he has set up are meant to segregate Dorje Shugden practitioners from the Tibetan Buddhist community funded by Tibet House US. Robert Thurman is wealthy, the Tibet House he co-founded is loaded with donations from all his rich contacts, including Richard Gere. With Thurman's love to attack Dorje Shugden people on Twitter, it is no wonder he hired Stasi Peljor to attack by setting up websites to spread unsolicited claims about Dorje Shugden people. I believe in karma and we'll see soon how their karma catches them.

Finally, justice. There's just so many bad news about this monk, he really should be disciplined. I don't know about monks rules, is there like a governing body that will regulate or question what he does?

He really gives Tibetan Buddhism a bad name, and on top of that, known to be running from one teacher to another, one centre to another. Nazi monk?  :-\
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Celia on April 17, 2018, 06:22:20 PM
Unfortunately, we do have people like Tenzin Peljor who do not hesitate to profit from Dharma. After all his so-called Dharmic studies, does he not realise the heavy karma that ensues?

Then again, looking at the rather lackadaisical manner in which he takes his ordination vow, it is a huge clue as to his motivation and attitude in relation to Dharma. In addition to centre hopping,

(i)   Tenzin Peljor doesn’t hesitate to market his experience of having joined the NKT (in 1995/96 and becoming ordained in 1998) and later disrobing as well as leaving the group in 2000 in order to gain “credibility” for his attacks on NKT; and

(ii)   in order to further his self-serving activities, he has no qualms of flaunting the fact that he took ordination again in 2002 in Nepal only to disrobe after only 2 months before he began studying with a new teacher from the Rime tradition, which culminated to him taking ordination from the Dalai Lama (who gave him the name Tenzin Peljor) 4 years later in March 2006.

Great that Tenzin Peljor has finally been exposed although was hoping it took place earlier. Of course, better late than never!
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: dsnowlion on April 18, 2018, 12:03:51 AM
Well this picture I stumbled upon one of the FBs sure sums up Peljor perfectly...
Peljor has literally made a career of criticising Buddhist lamas and pretending he's some hot shot monk with a 2cent opinion, creating schism everywhere.


(https://image.ibb.co/niwONS/Peljor.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: phyag na rlangs pa on April 18, 2018, 08:50:23 PM
Lol, this guy robes and disrobes, jumping from tradition to tradition like a crooked power hungry politician jumps political parties! How do people take him seriously? I can't even!
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Celia on April 19, 2018, 06:24:15 AM
Well this picture I stumbled upon one of the FBs sure sums up Peljor perfectly...
Peljor has literally made a career of criticising Buddhist lamas and pretending he's some hot shot monk with a 2cent opinion, creating schism everywhere.


(https://image.ibb.co/niwONS/Peljor.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)

@dsnowlion, definitely a picture that truly encapsulates Tenzin Peljor. All he really has to show is how fickle and lightly he treats his faith and also his own lies & propaganda infested websites.

Considering the point where he went “full-time” attacking Shugdenpas particularly online was around the time he got ordained by Dalai Lama, it is likely that his ordination is meant to facilitate his work for CTA.

After all, he is paid to do CTA’s dirty work and to do that he would need to establish some form of credibility since he has none to speak of.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on June 04, 2018, 01:01:21 PM
Lol, this guy robes and disrobes, jumping from tradition to tradition like a crooked power hungry politician jumps political parties! How do people take him seriously? I can't even!

So Bob Thurman and Stasi Peljoy both have something in common after all. They are both lacks of self-discipline, robe and disrobed with no slightest respect to the vows and the sacred duty represents by the robes. They are both working for Central Tibetan Administration, specifically the Department of Information and International Relations, and receive orders from Dhardon Sharling who is known to do favours for Lobsang Sangay in order to get her position. They both are known to attack Shugden people online, Thurman tried to solicit Anonymous group of hackers on Twitter and hire trolls like Froso Ploumidi and Christophe Besuchet to spew hate speech and make a racist rant at Shugden people there, while Peljor creates multiple websites to 'expose' various Shugden practitioners and Buddhists he hates.

You may wonder how these people can live their lives hating people on a daily basis. Well, it all boils down to the fact that they want to be the Dalai Lama. Since they lacked the charisma and the spiritual attainments the Dalai Lama has, to get the attention, the power, the money they are dying for, they have no hesitation to go against the Buddhist principles and Dharma as long as their desire for fame and authority is fulfilled in the most crooked way.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: dsnowlion on June 04, 2018, 04:11:25 PM
Yup they are both paid by the Tibetan exiled government to go around discriminating and blaming Dorje Shugden practitioners for everything. The most famous one is we are all paid by the CCP and we are all spies hahaha. It's really disgusting. This is what CTA does... they use their refugee card to raise funds and say it is for their people, but the Tibetans do not receive a cent of it in any form.

So the money goes into the pockets of those in power and a portion of it goes to spending on attacking Dorje Shugden practitioners, paying people like Bob and Peljor to find hackers/attack/and write fake news about Shugden. But they forget that these people they pay to do the job are basically filled with their own dirt that is easily exposed! As for Peljor, well... he's quite a special two face... check out this information I found about him from FB! very interesting... lol

(https://preview.ibb.co/cjYVa8/sogyal_meme06.jpg) (https://ibb.co/jLoJTT)

(https://preview.ibb.co/i8fbF8/sogyal_meme05.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gpmGF8)
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Pema8 on June 05, 2018, 02:43:11 AM
This Tenzin Peljor is such a bad example for Tibetan Buddhism. Instead of practicing Buddhas teachings according to the monk vows, he is just doing the opposite and breaks them.

I wonder what is his motivation to be a monk? To create schism amongst the community? Well done!
What is his right to go and criticise teachers? What is his right to criticise Ole Nydahl?

What has Tenzin Peljor done for anyone? He is just showing that he knows nothing about Tibetan Buddhism and Guru Devotion. Well, most probably you are right and he is well paid for the job he is doing. Too bad, but karma exists and will come back!

Good that people like him get exposed! http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html (http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html)

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Tenzin Peljor - Disgruntled Monk or CTA Puppet?
Updated, & there is now a further article connected to this subject here.

In researching the issues around the Dalai Lama controversy I was surprised to see the same group of names kept cropping up. There appeared to be a small Dalai Lama fan club that was aggressively promoting its "anti-protest" stance and within that group there was one name that seemed to dominate all their activities - Tenzin Peljor.

I stumbled across Mr Peljor early in my research, or to be more precise I had been directed to several of his websites for "authoritative and independent information" on the subject. It would appear that he has become an "unbiased expert" according to his friends in the group, but what they don't mention are his close ties to the Dalai Lama and the exile leadership.

They also fail to mention that he has been aggressively campaigning against the protests for over 8 years and that he runs numerous websites registered under different aliases and tries to influence online discussions using several false identities. On further inspection Mr Peljor's activities are anything but "unbiased and independent", and more closely resemble those of an activist promoting a specific and clearly defined agenda.

His "independent websites" are listed as resources for journalists by the Tibetan exile leadership, he is promoted to journalists by Tibetan NGOs, he is the media spokesperson for the German Buddhist organisation DBO, and he targets any journalist and publication that portrays the protests in a positive light. For a monk whose main activities are teaching at a Buddhist centre in Berlin he is remarkably active and engaged in this controversy, almost as if it was his full-time job.

As with all the sources I come across in my research I did some background checks to see if he was as independent as he claims and to what degree his presentation of information could be influenced by those it benefits. Scratching the surface of his 'independent monk' facade revealed quite a bit more than I had initially suspected.

An ex-NKT Member
Tenzin Peljor is often very up front about his prior involvement with the NKT, after all he uses this as a basis for his credibility when it comes to the protests. He joined the NKT in 1995/96 according to his biography, becoming ordained in 1998 and later disrobing and leaving the group in 2000.

Both Tenzin and the teacher he had in the NKT decided to leave at the same time, after which he continued to be her student. He took ordination again in 2002 in Nepal, but disrobed after only 2 months and began studying with a new teacher from the Rime tradition.

In March 2006 after 4 years in Rime he then took ordination from the Dalai Lama in India, who gave him the name Tenzin Peljor.

It was soon after his ordination, that Mr Peljor began to take an interest in countering the protests. His approach followed much the same modus operandi as the Tibetan government, namely to try and undermine the credibility of the protests by attacking the NKT.

It's worth noting at this point that prior to the protests the Dalai Lama had no problem with Geshe Kelsang Gyatso or the NKT. He had written the foreword to Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's book, "Buddhism in the Tibetan Tradition", and a note of praise in another of his books, "Meaningful to Behold". It was only after the protests began that the Tibetan exile leadership started to attack Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and smear the NKT, attempting to label it as a cult.

Following his ordination by the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Peljor remained in India and began to assist the Tibetan government (CTA) with their disinformation campaign. He began by editing pages on Wikipedia, rapidly becoming the main editor for the page about the NKT.

His attempts to redefine the NKT on Wikipedia however seem to have been so clumsy that it aroused the suspicion of other editors. In describing Tenzin's approach one of the Wikipedia editors stated:

"I'm very concerned that the opinions and viewpoints of a relatively small number of individuals is drawn upon as the source material for a large portion of the article, which is representative of the point of view of a single editor who, in his determination to ensure that the article fully describes his own perspective, has dominated the editing process." (ClockworkSoul, 23rd October 2006)

 

The Birth of the Survivors
As Tenzin's campaign to discredit the NKT on Wikipedia was starting to lose ground he then switched tack and focussed his attention towards online Buddhist chat groups, in particular he became very active on a group called e-Sangha. It was on this group that he struck up a friendship with David Cutshaw, a disillusioned ex-NKT member and encouraged him to start a new discussion group.

The group that Tenzin wanted Mr Cutshaw to set up was to be focussed only on the negative aspects of the NKT, it was to be named the "NKT Survivors" group and any pro-NKT messages were to be strictly forbidden. The idea was that the group would encourage people to leave the NKT and only post their negative experiences and opinions of them. Their rules state:

"No NKT members/followers/students are allowed.
If you are happy with the NKT, and have no desire to leave, this group is not for you. If you join anyway trying to post and try to get Yahoo to delete this group, we can only assume you are a troll trying to cause disharmony. Such people will be banned and removed at once from the group."

Tenzin offered to support David in the creation of the group, but wanted to avoid being directly linked to it as its creator. In this way Tenzin had found the perfect surrogate to continue his online activities against the NKT.

The group was created on May 22nd 2007 and Tenzin was the first person other than David to post on it. He assisted with moderating the group, approving new members, editing its settings, and profile.

At the time of the groups creation Tenzin was still residing within the Tibetan exile community in India, however a few weeks later he was promoted to the position of Resident Monk at Bodhicharya Centre in Berlin. From his new base in Berlin he continued to be central to its development, shaping the "survivors" group and focussing its narrative portraying the NKT as a cult.

After a few months the group appeared to be achieving the goal Tenzin had failed to accomplish the previous year with Wikipedia.

On 31st Dec 2007 he posted to the group stating, "At the New Years Day I will move to Italy, Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, and pick up a qualified study there for the next 6 years.", adding, "I will leave the forum at the New Years Day...If there is anybody who feel he can support David's moderator activities, please let him know privately."

Instituto Lama Tzong Khapa is a centre of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) a Tibetan group that follows the Dalai Lama. Clearly the FPMT centre approved of Tenzin's activities because within 2 months of his arrival there he resumed his activities on the "survivors" group.

 

Weaving Websites and Alliances
In April 2008 another series of protests began as the Dalai Lama visited the US. In response to these Tenzin created two websites registered under an alias which according to him offered, "fair, neutral, and balanced information regarding NKT and Buddhist cults in general."

The websites were registered under the false name of Losang Tashi, to an address in Gotha, the town in East Germany where Tenzin was born. In a post on May 21st 2008 to the "survivors" group he said, "maybe we use the power of the many people here and the motivation to protect others (giving fearlesness) by setting up 1-2 websites."

Rather than offering fair or neutral information both websites were a continuation of his online campaign to undermine the protests by attempting to discredit the NKT. Had his intention been wholesome you would need to ask why a Buddhist monk with vows against lying was using a false name when registering websites?

Then in July 2008 Jamyang Khedrup posted a comment promoting one of Tenzin's websites under a New York Times article about the protests. What I found interesting was that as I dug deeper into Tenzin's background I found the same people who have been involved with his campaigning for a long time.

By this point in my research I had already encountered Jamyang Khedrup whilst investigating his involvement with the LamaGate hacking scandal, but I had no idea his involvement with Tenzin stretched as far back as 2008.

The reason I didn't know Khedrup's involvement went so far back is because he was posting to the 'survivors' group using a false identity. For 6 months in 2008 Khedrup used the name Lobsang Jangchub in numerous posts to the group. Many people responded to his comments addressing him by the name Lobsang. At no time did he ever try to correct them or explain that wasn't his name.

The fact that both Tenzin and Khedrup were using false identities whilst posting comments to the 'survivors' group raises significant questions about the accuracy of other users identities and claims.

Significant discrepancies have already been uncovered with Khedrup's accounts of his involvement with LamaGate, and here is yet another occasion where his credibility is called into question.

 

The Hidden Hand
Seeking to expand his sphere of influence beyond his own websites and the "survivors" group Tenzin began to strike up a relationship with Dialogue Ireland, a website which focuses on religious movements. Prior to Tenzin’s involvement his friend, Joanne Clark had also been in touch with them to offer her services as a self-proclaimed"expert" on Tibetan Buddhism.

Tenzin and Joanne’s approach in the Dialogue Ireland forums seemed to follow a pattern of promoting both Tenzin’s websites and the "survivors" group. In his attempt to form a stronger bond with Dialogue Ireland, Tenzin wrote to them explaining his position:

"I am much interested into the dynamics of Nazi, Stasi, dictatorship, totalitarian systems, and I am an admirer of Jay Lifton and Margaret Thaler Singer. I run also a website about the dynamics of Buddhist cults in German language. So we share quite a lot."

Yet when they tried to ask him questions about his background he became very defensive, refusing to answer them. Tenzin said, "I don’t see any use to answer. My experience recently at DI [Dialogue Ireland] was that whatever I say will be misunderstood or misinterpreted and finally twisted." adding, "Also I am not interested in any online discussion about me. East German biographies can be complex."

A common theme in Tenzin's response to critics is that they are "twisting" the facts, especially when someone is trying to pin him down on a specific point. It's interesting that Tenzin used to be in the National People's Army (NPA) in East Germany, which was strongly influenced by the Soviet Armed Forces, working as a radio operator.

His comments about the protests often accuse them of using 'agitprop', which is a Soviet style of propaganda, a methodology he would have been all too familiar with from his previous training. Unfortunately he didn't expand on his "complex" biography, so we don't know what type of activities he was employed to perform by the NPA, or what areas his training encompassed.

In 2013 Dialogue Ireland started to use Chris Chandler as their expert on Tibetan Buddhism and approached the issue as a problem with Lamaism, rather than just one or two specific traditions. Chris, who had been involved with Tibetan Buddhism for 30 years, raised the issue that Lamaism is a form of Tantric Hinduism. So it was not a question of focussing on the NKT as a cultish form of Buddhism, but was a case of finding the exact same tendencies and attitudes in all forms of Tibetan Buddhism, including those following the Dalai Lama.

Their new outlook limited the degree to which Tenzin could manipulate their website to promote his own agenda and when they began to look into Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, one of Tenzin's teachers, he disengaged from them completely. (You can read Dialogue Ireland's article about Tenzin Peljor in full here)

By this point Joanne had already left the Dialogue Ireland site, but when she heard that Chris was their new expert she returned with a vengence. As one person said, "She was like someone high on drink, totally under the influence."

Dialogue Ireland stated:

"However since Chris has been the catalyst for our understanding of Lamaism as the cultist form of Buddhism Joanne has been like a Banshee on our site morning, noon and night. She disagrees with Chris’s analysis but can’t just get up and go. She is now camping on the site."

 

A Sudden Increase
Following his failed attempt at using Dialogue Ireland to undermine the NKT, Tenzin Peljor spent the following years expanding the number of his own websites that he could control and direct, rather than having to rely upon others. During this period his group of websites grew from two to eight, and everything was proceeding as normal for him until 2014.

Prior to 2014 the protests generally garnered a relatively small degree of media coverage. Whilst they were mentioned on several newscasts in the mainstream media it was often along the lines of the Tibetan government's media briefing notes, so the issues behind the protests were rarely covered.

That all changed in Oslo when the Dalai Lama returned to celebrate his Nobel Peace Prize and the media took a greater interest in the protests. This attention seemed to gradually build from one protest to another which prompted a corresponding increase in activity from Tenzin Peljor and his compatriots.

In the 8 months prior to May 2014 there were on average 16 messages a month posted on the "survivors" discussion board, however in May this figure jumped up to 144 messages. The vast majority of them were posted over the days when the protests were taking place in Oslo.

At the same time the "survivors" were asking what they could do to counter the protests the exile leadership were asking the exact same question, and before long the two groups were working hand in hand. The "NKT Survivors" became the "NKT Survivor Activists", and at the request of people associated with the exile leadership they began a new phase in their campaign to try and discredit the protesters.

One of their first actions involved the creation of a declaration against the protests by ex-members of the NKT. Originally this was presented as coming from Carol McQuire and Tenzin as a spontaneous idea of their own.

On 5th November however Carol admitted that it wasn't their idea saying, "we were asked to do the declaration, it didn't come from us, but we thought it was a great idea and agreed to do this as it would help the situation.", adding, "Once we were asked to join in, we haven't looked back - it's been so inspiring working with a load of amazing people"

There was a slight problem with the first version of the declaration though, it included the following text, "We acknowledge there may be some problems within the Tibetan community that need to be addressed". This had to be removed from subsequent versions of the declaration before the exile leadership would allow it to be put on the CTA's official website.

In explaining this on his own website Tenzin let slip, "One of the initiators of the declaration wished for a change", then he presented both the old version and the changed version.

The declaration was then added to the Tibetan government's official website (Tibet.net) at the very top of the page dedicated to the Dorje Shugden controversy. The significance of its placement should not be underestimated. It appears before any statements from the CTA and the Dalai Lama, which is somewhat unusual for a declaration signed by only 24 ex-NKT members who are supposedly unconnected to the exile leadership.

 

A New Website

Despite all the best efforts of Tenzin and the CTA the media was undeterred. They continued to take an interest in the protests and the Dalai Lama found himself facing questions about them during every press conference. The coverage in Hamburg seemed pivotal in that it was both widespread and also became the top news story on Google about the Dalai Lama.

Following Hamburg a new website was created specifically for the media to counteract the protests. It was a website that was designed to be both anonymous, yet have the support of Tibet House in the US. No name was associated with it, no contact details, and it was registered through a domain proxy service, designed to keep the registrant's details hidden.

At the bottom of the website the disclaimer stated:

"Official Tibet Houses are cultural centers of HH the Dalai Lama, non-profit organizations devoted to the preservation of Tibetan culture. This site appears with their approval since, while not responsible for producing the site or its content, the misrepresentations of Tibetan culture generated by this controversy distort and negatively affect the public perception of Tibetan culture."

It was all very mysterious and Tenzin Peljor made no mention of the website until someone posted a comment on his website drawing his attention to it. He pretended to know nothing about the website until this comment on October 19th, however he had set one of his own websites to redirect to this new website two days previously, on October 17th.

The mystery deepened when I was discussing some of the controversy with Professor Robert Thurman on the fateful night of the LamaGate incident. It seemed that Professor Thurman was confused about who I am and was convinced that I had suggested to him that he should create the website.

On 30th October Prof. Thurman stated to me that, "we prepared shugdeninfo.com for you @IndyHack", adding, "We produced this site on your suggestion @IndyHack"

I was a little baffled to say the least. Prof. Thurman was saying quite clearly that he was involved with the creation of the new website (shugdeninfo.com) and yet Tenzin Peljor had redirected his own domain name (shugden.info) to Thurman's new site. It was too much of a coincidence for me to drop and I was encouraged that there was now a direct link between Thurman and Peljor, albeit a slightly difficult one to prove categorically.

Fortunately Tenzin helped out with that a few weeks later.

 

When is a Coincidence not a Coincidence?
When you're dealing with investigations it's tricky to pin down exact evidence to prove your case - people sometimes lie and when you catch them out they usually refuse to admit it. Often times you also have to deal with associations of probabilities, you look for groupings of supposedly unconnected events that push the boundaries of coincidence.

The fact Prof. Thurman had admitted direct involvement with the shugdeninfo.com website was a welcome and unexpected gift. It went beyond the mere approval of the site by Tibet House US and indicated that he had been directly involved in its creation with one or more other people. The fact that Tenzin was redirecting his domain to the site before anyone had told him about it on his blog was also helpful, as was his pretense not to know about it until that point, but it still wasn't enough.

Then there was another unexpected gift, Tenzin updated the registration of his domain (shugden.info) through the same anonymous service as shugdeninfo.com and hosted it on the same servers as shugdeninfo.com. Now both domain names had exactly the same settings.

In the screenshots below you can see that Tenzin originally registered shugden.info using his legal name, Michael Jaeckel and used the address of Bodhicharya Centre in Berlin.
 

Out of all of Tenzin's various websites and domain names this is the only one that is registered through the anonymous proxy service WhoisGuard Inc, it is also the only one that is hosted through Cloudflare.

 

Conclusions
When delving beyond the facade of a 'simple monk' or 'independent expert' we find that Tenzin Peljor's background is far from simple or independent.

Here we have someone who in their youth was a Radio Operator in the National People's Army, and who is familiar with the Soviet style of government propaganda. By his own admission he is, "interested into the dynamics of Nazi, Stasi, dictatorship, totalitarian systems" and has a complex East German biography (including his own Stasi file).

He's an ex-NKT member, so that would account for his interest in speaking out against them, but there's a huge gap of 6 years between him leaving the NKT and beginning his online campaign against them, which doesn't tally. The timing of his campaign seems more closely related to his ordination by the Dalai Lama than his experiences within the NKT.

Moreover his approach to attacking the NKT seems to be in response to their involvement with the protests, rather than being a "survivor". He began to develop his own websites only in response to the protests in 2008.

Tenzin claims the purpose of his websites are, "to counter the misinformation campaign of the NKT", yet his own approach appears to be promoting the disinformation campaign of the Tibetan exile leadership. He also created a declaration and canvassed for signatures on it because he was instructed to by people who objected to even the slightest criticism of the Tibetan community.

His new website in response to the media coverage of the protests in 2014 appears to have been created in collaboration with Professor Thurman, who is alleged to have tried to solicit anonymous to hack protesters Twitter accounts (more here). His domain which redirects to the new website is also now hidden behind the same anonymous registration service that Thurman used.

Overall Tenzin Peljor's campaign against the NKT seems more related to the protests than any negative experiences he had whilst being a member of the group. The level and depth of his involvement over such an extensive time period goes beyond the expected response of a disgruntled "survivor".

Mr Peljor appears to be an activist who is promoting a clearly defined and well structured campaign. The fact that his campaign started whilst he was living within the Tibetan exile community in India seems to indicate the main influencing factor behind it.

He is well funded and has significant resources and time to invest in this issue that don't fit with his role as a resident monk at Bodhicharya Centre. For instance at one point he offered to fly to Ireland to discuss his Stasi background when issues about it arose.

The logical conclusion is that Tenzin Peljor is acting in accordance with the wishes of the CTA as one of their de facto agents. The persona he projects as being an ex-NKT "survivor" simply trying to right the wrongs he experienced is nothing other than a smokescreen.

The problem he has with this facade is that it is poorly crafted and badly executed. When exposed to a sustained investigation it crumbles to reveal his close involvement with, and oversight from, the Tibetan exile leadership.


Update - 30th Dec 2014

Today Carol McQuire has publicly accused me of lying and taking advantage of Tenzin's current 'absent' status. In a recent post on social media she said that Tenzin is currently on retreat at Drepung Monastery until April, so she has sprung valiantly to his defense.

Amongst the various inaccuracies in Carol's post she has likened the timing of this article to, "someone in a boxing ring deliberately hitting a last strike after the whistle has been blown", claiming it is published at a time when Tenzin is unable to respond to it. This is untrue.

Carol posted her comments a few hours after Tenzin had posted a new article on his blog. Tenzin had also posted a comment on social media about his new article 2 hours prior to Carol's post. So her claim that Tenzin is somehow absent from this situation is incorrect.

If he is on retreat at Drepung Monastery as claimed then it is a retreat which allows him to continue to work on his blog and social media. As usual with Tenzin and his friends their accounts often crumble when a small degree of scrutiny is applied to them.

She is also incorrect in stating that the initial version of the ex-NKT declaration was posted on the CTA website - Tibet.net. It is only the version which contains no reference to any criticism of the Tibetan community that was ever posted on Tibet.net.

Carol said, "the first version of the declaration was already published on the CTA’s website before the second had even been thought of. How sad that such an enormous theory of political intrigue that IndyHack has developed has quite differing origins."

As you can see from Carol's own posts she requested that people approve the change on August 26th:


It was only after the declaration had been changed that it was allowed to go on the CTA's official website, Tibet.net. As you can see from Carol's own post it was not on their website prior to September:


So Carol's claim that, "the first version of the declaration was already published on the CTA’s website before the second had even been thought of", is a lie.

It's another example of Tenzin and his friends playing fast and loose with the truth.

She did at least admit that Tenzin Peljor primarily attacks the NKT because he is, "involved in looking after the Dalai Lama’s interests in the most profound way".

Unfortunately for Carol her desperate attempt to try and refute the claims made in my article only destroys her own credibility.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on June 28, 2018, 06:51:26 AM
I am sorry, but he is really annoying and irritating. How can a monk earn money from creating schism and disparaging the sangha? That's one of the 5 heinous vows that has very heavy karma and serious consequences. Karma is the very basic and fundamental principle of Buddhism. If he doesn't believe in it, why is he still wearing the Buddha's sacred robes and destroy Buddhism like this?
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: dsnowlion on June 28, 2018, 03:01:43 PM
I am sorry, but he is really annoying and irritating. How can a monk earn money from creating schism and disparaging the sangha? That's one of the 5 heinous vows that has very heavy karma and serious consequences. Karma is the very basic and fundamental principle of Buddhism. If he doesn't believe in it, why is he still wearing the Buddha's sacred robes and destroy Buddhism like this?

I guess this is the kind of people the CTA loves because it is helpful for their "cause"! The CTA can use them easily because they want money and fame. I guess this is how CTA maintain its power and control over people.  Tenzin Peljor is definitely not going to a good place afterlife. If he was decent, he would stop all his nonsensical blogsites and focus on studying the Dharma and teaching (if he can).
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Celia on July 23, 2018, 09:34:09 PM
I am sorry, but he is really annoying and irritating. How can a monk earn money from creating schism and disparaging the sangha? That's one of the 5 heinous vows that has very heavy karma and serious consequences. Karma is the very basic and fundamental principle of Buddhism. If he doesn't believe in it, why is he still wearing the Buddha's sacred robes and destroy Buddhism like this?

That would only be an issue if he really took his vows and Dharma practice seriously, But judging from his actions, especially his fickleness in robing & disrobing and also jumping from traditions to traditions when it serves his interest, clearly he is just about capitalising on Buddhism. He has nothing to show for in his life and wants to make himself credible by putting on robes and aligning to do CTA's dirty work so he can feel important. How sad & one can only imagine the negative karma he is creating for himself.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Drolma on July 24, 2018, 06:14:02 PM
A Buddhist monk and a Tibetan Buddhist expert pair up to segregate Dorje Shugden followers? Tenzin Peljor is wearing the holy robe, but he is not spreading Dharma, he is spreading hates and negative speech. Robert Thurman is despicable, he pays a monk to spread divisive speech among the Buddhist community. The ultimate goal for them is to collect more money, enlightenment and attainment to them are not necessary. Just imagine how much bad karma these 2 persons have collected.

In this degenerate times, it is not uncommon to see monk like Tenzin Peljor doing the opposite of what a Sangha should be doing. Just look at Sogyal Rinpoche, how many sex scandals he is involved in; look at Lama Tseta, who accuses Dorje Shugden practitioners the Chinese spy when he does not have any proof at all. As someone educated, we must have an open mind to investigate, don't follow blindly what is told.

There are too many self-proclaimed experts of Buddhism or monks out there, we have to be careful. Observe their speech and behaviour, we will be able to know if they are genuine.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Drolma on September 03, 2018, 08:08:34 AM
The CTA is really determined to smear Dorje Shugden so they can distract people from questioning their failure to fulfill their duty as the leadership of the Tibetans in exile. They use the donation from people to suppress their own people instead of to take care of their welfare.

Come to think of it, Tenzin Peljor may not be a monk, his main focus seems to be spreading fake news and condemning NKT. He is wearing a monk’s robe probably because it is more convincing as the general public would think a monk will not lie. Coming from a Stasi background, disguising himself to achieve his goal is not something he is unfamiliar with.

It is a shame for the CTA to use an ex-Stasi to help them spread fake news and propaganda to smear NKT and Dorje Shugden followers. They even let him wear a monk’s robe in order to do his job. The CTA and the ex-Stasi is creating a lot of bad karma by misusing the holy monk’s robe.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Pema8 on September 04, 2018, 02:42:52 AM
This Tenzin Peljor has really no shame to use a monk's robe to spread his lies.

And he is protected by much money. How is this related to Buddhism? Right, not at all... only some people seem to use Buddhism for their personal agenda.

Now we know where is this Stasi Peljor got his Euro50,000 with a blink for his court case with Diamond Way for slandering Lama Ole Nydahl and spreading false accusations of the center. It is clear that all the websites he has set up are meant to segregate Dorje Shugden practitioners from the Tibetan Buddhist community funded by Tibet House US. Robert Thurman is wealthy, the Tibet House he co-founded is loaded with donations from all his rich contacts, including Richard Gere. With Thurman's love to attack Dorje Shugden people on Twitter, it is no wonder he hired Stasi Peljor to attack by setting up websites to spread unsolicited claims about Dorje Shugden people. I believe in karma and we'll see soon how their karma catches them.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on September 04, 2018, 03:42:10 AM
Have you all not heard that this Stasi East German Peljor's court case at Mannheim (Diamondway/Ole Nydahl) is settled with an arrangement that he still doesn’t know the exact costs. However, he said, "they reached a while ago already 17.000€" (about USD20k). I sure hope this amount will increase because of all the negative activities he has done through his various sites to Buddhism and related individuals.

Even though he is on the lost side, Stasi Peljor still wanted to clarify one pathetic point that he has neither done the crime of ”defamation“ (deliberately telling an untruth in order to cause a bad reputation to another person) nor has he been convicted of it. Well, we all know he is clarifying because that is exactly what he did!
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Tracy on September 04, 2018, 04:57:38 AM
It is so sad to see the CTA and some ex-Stasi making use of Dharma to make money for themselves. The Tibetans are very proud of the Buddhist tradition and culture but they seem to be very superficial. If they have deeper knowledge in Buddhism, the CTA will not inflict pain on other just to have personal gain. What kind of Buddhist tradition are they preserving if they cannot even apply it themselves?

As for the ex-Stasi,  he is disgusting. I really think he is not a monk. It was all an act to say he is an ordained monk. Most people respect the Sangha member and understand that they have to hold the vow of lying. A monk's robe will automatically give the ex-Stasi the credibility to his words.

The CTA understand the mentality of the public, that is why they create a monk image for the ex-Stasi and of course as an ex-Stasi, Tenzin Peljor sure knows how to disguise himself. Fortunately, the CTA and his plot are exposed and he has to take the consequences for his action now.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Pema8 on September 05, 2018, 02:19:43 PM
I really hope that Stasi Peljor will be put at his right place! Disguising himself as a monk and playing an evil game with real practitioners is not only expensive on court but even more expensive as karma!

Such a foul player should disrobe as he is giving Buddhism a real bad name! He has really no interest in Buddhism because all he does is spreading hate and lies instead of learning and teaching Dharma.

And the CTA has hired Peljor to create more negative karma - when will they ever stop stirring up trouble?? When will they end the Dorje Shugden ban??  >:( >:( >:(


Have you all not heard that this Stasi East German Peljor's court case at Mannheim (Diamondway/Ole Nydahl) is settled with an arrangement that he still doesn’t know the exact costs. However, he said, "they reached a while ago already 17.000€" (about USD20k). I sure hope this amount will increase because of all the negative activities he has done through his various sites to Buddhism and related individuals.

Even though he is on the lost side, Stasi Peljor still wanted to clarify one pathetic point that he has neither done the crime of ”defamation“ (deliberately telling an untruth in order to cause a bad reputation to another person) nor has he been convicted of it. Well, we all know he is clarifying because that is exactly what he did!
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on September 05, 2018, 06:20:33 PM
No one should attend his dharma teaching! No way! He knows nothing about dharma and he can't possibly give correct dharma to people. You wouldn't want anyone to be influenced by him negatively. His actions are the Eight Worldly Dharma and his mind is filled with nothing but the Three Poisons. Everyone should stay REALLY far away from this Stasi fake monk!

If he is a real Buddhist practitioner, he will behave according to karma. He won't be doing all these harmful actions because he knows there are results from his actions! He is also not meditating on death because if he does, he would really spend his time to gain realization. Instead, he spent it to earn evil money from CTA by creating schism and writing lie on his sites.

This East German is a shame of Buddhism. He is a bad representation of the dharma. He is the killer of Buddhism. He should disrobe and stop multiplying his negative karma every second and speed up his result to be born in hell next.

I really hope that Stasi Peljor will be put at his right place! Disguising himself as a monk and playing an evil game with real practitioners is not only expensive on court but even more expensive as karma!

Such a foul player should disrobe as he is giving Buddhism a real bad name! He has really no interest in Buddhism because all he does is spreading hate and lies instead of learning and teaching Dharma.

And the CTA has hired Peljor to create more negative karma - when will they ever stop stirring up trouble?? When will they end the Dorje Shugden ban??  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Alex on September 08, 2018, 10:22:32 AM
Why I am not surprised.

CTA has been using sneaky ways to get what they want for many years now. They do not respect Buddha, Dharma and Sangha despite being a government that work beside His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They have been doing heinous crime behind His Holiness's back such as murdering countless innocent high lamas such as Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen just to protect their power. This has been happening throughout the history of Tibetan Government since the 5th Dalai Lama's time. Imagine how much of negative karma they have created as a nation and hence they lost their country ultimately. Tibet's fall is the collective heavy karma that the government has created by removing holy beings that may be a threat to His Holiness's power.

Now they make use of the holy monk robe to sway people into believing their outrageous stories and supporting their cause. They will never learn even after 60years of being in exile. I sincerely pray for the Dalai Lama to return to China and have CTA dissolved. 
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: dsnowlion on September 08, 2018, 03:09:31 PM
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He is a bad representation of the dharma. He is the killer of Buddhism.

He sure is... if you go to his blog, all he does is gossip and talk bad and judge other Lamas/Dharma centre. Like who died and made his the Dharma police watchdog? And if that's not enough, he was recently sued by Lama Ole Nydahl for publishing defamatory articles about him and they recently had to settle out of court. I guess Peljor realises he could not go on like this as he does not have the financial backing for this and needed to raise funds for his court case, how pathetic!

Hey Peljor, you're a monk, monks are supposed to be meditating and teaching the Dharma, not go around gossiping & defaming other spiritual leaders, just cause you are not!

Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Pema8 on September 20, 2018, 11:06:16 AM
Tenzin Peljor is clearly not an independent monk and his goals have nothing to do with Dharma!

His NKT Survivor group is for him to 'play' a victim but who is the victim here? Would he share only one-sidedly according to the wishes of the CTA and against Dorje Shugden practitioners, as a real victim - no!? It seems that he gets a lot of money for the numerous webpages to discredit Dorje Shugden practitioners and with the financial blessings of the CTA / Tibet House US / Bob Thurman.

Thanks for sharing @dsnowlion on this very sad topic 'Peljor' and the webpage arebuddhistracist.com! Definitely a must read!

http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html (http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html)

Well, it looks like our dear Tenzin Peljor has finally been exposed. He is the one that has been going around policing Buddhist teachers and their centers.

Arebuddhistsracist.com investigated this East German monk thoroughly. Tenzin Peljor claims he does it because he is part of the “NKT survivors” group that was formed to supposedly right the wrongs that they experienced in NKT. However, this is all just a façade. As arebuddhistsracist.com dug deeper, it became apparent that several of his websites were registered under different aliases and false identities. These websites published content that was one-sided and typical of the Tibetan leadership (the Central Tibetan Administration or CTA), although they all claim to be disseminating “unbiased information” regarding the Dorje Shugden issue and protests.

Upon further investigation, a clear link was discovered between Peljor and his connection to Tibet House US – a Tibetan cultural center associated with the Dalai Lama, Professor Robert Thurman, and the CTA. If we connect the dots, we soon realize why a Buddhist monk has so much time on his hands to gossip, debate and discredit other Buddhist centers and their teachers. He even has the resources to fly around the world, attending matters not even remotely connected to Buddhism, such as his trip to Ireland to discuss his Stasi background.

Overall, Peljor’s activities and discussions seem to be less about the Buddha’s teachings and more of a political agenda, one that sings to the tunes of the Tibetan leadership in-exile’s deceitful propaganda. Read on to find out more about the CTA’s puppet monk... [url]http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html[/url] ([url]http://www.arebuddhistsracist.com/tenzin_peljor.html[/url])   

Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Tracy on October 13, 2018, 05:48:07 PM
Tenzin Peljor is a monk who sold his spirituality to money. Karma will definitely come back to him, he is wearing a monk's robe and spread untrue and negative speech to make people leave Dharma and their teachers, the negative karma he creates for himself is very heavy. He better be prepared to suffer real big time when his negative karmas ripen.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Alex on October 14, 2018, 04:30:20 PM
The CTA is really determined to smear Dorje Shugden so they can distract people from questioning their failure to fulfill their duty as the leadership of the Tibetans in exile. They use the donation from people to suppress their own people instead of to take care of their welfare.

Come to think of it, Tenzin Peljor may not be a monk, his main focus seems to be spreading fake news and condemning NKT. He is wearing a monk’s robe probably because it is more convincing as the general public would think a monk will not lie. Coming from a Stasi background, disguising himself to achieve his goal is not something he is unfamiliar with.

It is a shame for the CTA to use an ex-Stasi to help them spread fake news and propaganda to smear NKT and Dorje Shugden followers. They even let him wear a monk’s robe in order to do his job. The CTA and the ex-Stasi is creating a lot of bad karma by misusing the holy monk’s robe.

CTA have to do so much extra work just to make sure Dorje Shugden's name is bad because it is all a lie. If Dorje Shugden's name is already bad before the ban, CTA don't have to work so hard to make it worse. Dorje Shugden name is good and many people have faith in him before the ban. Hence, CTA has to engage in alot of different ways to smear it and make sure the public sees only bad news about Dorje Shugden to brainwash them.

CTA spend so much of money and resources on this and neglected the normal Tibetan's welfare in India. All those money could have been used to develop Tibetan settlements or even feed the poor. Instead, they produce public books, videos, and documentary just to talk bad about Dorje Shugden. What a waste of money and resources.

When you think CTA cant be even worse, they go and hire a monk to do their dirty jobs for them. Tenzin Peljor is the perfect candidate that is as corrupted as them and will do anything for money. He spread propaganda and lies while hiding behind his robes. So much of negative karma that CTA and Tenzin had created. They will never be able to get back Tibet.

Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on October 14, 2018, 05:48:48 PM
Finally, justice. There's just so many bad news about this monk, he really should be disciplined. I don't know about monks rules, is there like a governing body that will regulate or question what he does?

He really gives Tibetan Buddhism a bad name, and on top of that, known to be running from one teacher to another, one centre to another. Nazi monk?  :-\

You don't need to know the monk rules, this Stasi East German monks didn't even keep his refuge vows properly. One who has taken the refuge vow should avoid schism, lies, gossips and harsh speech. This Stasi does it all on his websites! In addition to that, his interest in the sex topic is also very apparent on his sites. He talks about it incessantly in different angles and he can never have enough of it. He is also interested in boys, especially the younger ones, and you wonder what he did with them in the name of Buddhism.

You know his main employer is the Tibetan Leadership (Central Tibetan Administration) who supports Stasi Peljor to breach his vows every day. It is bad enough to create negative activities, worst when he is paid to do so.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Tracy on October 15, 2018, 05:12:05 PM
Finally, justice. There's just so many bad news about this monk, he really should be disciplined. I don't know about monks rules, is there like a governing body that will regulate or question what he does?

He really gives Tibetan Buddhism a bad name, and on top of that, known to be running from one teacher to another, one centre to another. Nazi monk?  :-\

You don't need to know the monk rules, this Stasi East German monks didn't even keep his refuge vows properly. One who has taken the refuge vow should avoid schism, lies, gossips and harsh speech. This Stasi does it all on his websites! In addition to that, his interest in the sex topic is also very apparent on his sites. He talks about it incessantly in different angles and he can never have enough of it. He is also interested in boys, especially the younger ones, and you wonder what he did with them in the name of Buddhism.

You know his main employer is the Tibetan Leadership (Central Tibetan Administration) who supports Stasi Peljor to breach his vows every day. It is bad enough to create negative activities, worst when he is paid to do so.

You are right that no one should attend his teachings. He is not a real Buddhist practitioner, what kind of Dharma can he impart? He is just an actor wearing a monk's robe to take advantage of people.

He has been spreading negative news about Dorje Shugden. As a real monk, he doesn't have to do that. If he doesn't want to practice it is fine, he can keep his opinion to himself. He should also know as a monk, he is to refrain from making negative and schismatic speeches.

I think the CTA hires him because of his previous work experience as a Stasi in East Germany. He was a special agent, he can do the dirty job quite well. This is how the CTA spends the donation from kind-hearted people, to create separation in the Tibetan community so that no one will have the time to look at the scandals of the CTA.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Alex on November 01, 2018, 10:17:23 AM
CTA is out to destroy Tibetan Buddhism again. Tenzin Peljor is a hypocrite monk that brings a bad name to Buddhism. How can he go around telling lies, creating schism, and also posting negative comments about other real Buddhist masters and lamas? He has no shame doing it while wearing the monk robes!!!

What makes it worst is that he wears the sacred maroon robe when he is doing all these nasty things. He has created alot of negative karma from divisive speech which created doubts in people's mind. Imagine how many people he had turned away from Buddhism or their holy gurus. He has been doing this for years by setting up several different websites that target Lamas that CTA does not approve.

The karma he had created from his speech is extremely heavy. One of the karma has already ripened when he got sued for his speech. I hope he will learn his lesson and stop his acts. He should not be a monk because he is making the sangha community look bad and people lose respect for sanghas.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: SabS on November 01, 2018, 01:09:05 PM
CTA is out to destroy Tibetan Buddhism again. Tenzin Peljor is a hypocrite monk that brings a bad name to Buddhism. How can he go around telling lies, creating schism, and also posting negative comments about other real Buddhist masters and lamas? He has no shame doing it while wearing the monk robes!!!

What makes it worst is that he wears the sacred maroon robe when he is doing all these nasty things. He has created alot of negative karma from divisive speech which created doubts in people's mind. Imagine how many people he had turned away from Buddhism or their holy gurus. He has been doing this for years by setting up several different websites that target Lamas that CTA does not approve.

The karma he had created from his speech is extremely heavy. One of the karma has already ripened when he got sued for his speech. I hope he will learn his lesson and stop his acts. He should not be a monk because he is making the sangha community look bad and people lose respect for sanghas.

Well obviously he has never been scared of karma otherwise he would have long stopped. He probably is a Nazi but no guts to stand up for his cause so he became a subterfuge online Nazi for CTA. Wow, you mean Robert Thurman paid for him. Well they must be the best of friends as their characters are exactly the same. Playing the Rolling Stone with their Gurus and disparaging other Sangha, playing CTA's stooge to attack Shugden practitioners, the list goes on. How heavy the burden of their karma.!!!! Robert Thurman is so old already, aren't he scared of his next rebirth? Think Dalai Lama will do special puja for him? Dream on....
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Drolma on November 06, 2018, 07:17:22 AM
Tenzin Peljor used to be a student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and was ordained as a monk in NKT. Later, he left the center and disrobed. And then he was ordained again, and then he disrobed again! His third ordination was from the Dalai Lama and this was how he got his ordained name Tenzin Peljor.

How reliable can this person be and how good can his teaching be? His mind seems to be very unstable, one minute he wanted to become a monk, then next minute he wanted to disrobe. He was ordained 3 times, incredible! How can someone with a flippant mind be qualified to teach Dharma? His words will not be reliable I would say.

Not only that, by him running websites and spread negative news about NKT, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and Dorje Shugden, we can already know he is not a nice person. A monk will not do that. A monk should always talk about compassion and help people. He gives a very bad name to the Sangha community, he should not be allowed to wear the monk's robe again.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Tracy on November 06, 2018, 07:30:36 AM
Tenzin Peljor used to be a student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and was ordained as a monk in NKT. Later, he left the center and disrobed. And then he was ordained again, and then he disrobed again! His third ordination was from the Dalai Lama and this was how he got his ordained name Tenzin Peljor.

How reliable can this person be and how good can his teaching be? His mind seems to be very unstable, one minute he wanted to become a monk, then next minute he wanted to disrobe. He was ordained 3 times, incredible! How can someone with a flippant mind be qualified to teach Dharma? His words will not be reliable I would say.

Not only that, by him running websites and spread negative news about NKT, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and Dorje Shugden, we can already know he is not a nice person. A monk will not do that. A monk should always talk about compassion and help people. He gives a very bad name to the Sangha community, he should not be allowed to wear the monk's robe again.

I didn't know Tenzin Peljor was ordained for so many times! Is he trying to win the award of the most ordained monk in Tibetan Buddhist tradition history? I wonder how long can he remain as a monk for this time.

To disparage Dorje Shugden, other Sangha members and our own teachers are already bad enough, Tenzin Peljor makes it worse by doing it when he is still wearing the monk's robe. He is so deluded to not realise he is breaking his samaya with his teacher and creating tremendous negative karmas for himself. He may not experience anything bad now, but he will one day. The longer it takes for his negative karma to ripen, the more sufferings he will experience because karma accumulates.

What he and Robert Thurman is doing teach us something. Do not trust big title or a 'uniform', because they are not a good benchmark to determine if this person is qualified in a particular subject. We have to examine their behaviour and their results. We have to use our analytical mind to make our judgment and don't be fooled by them.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on November 24, 2018, 12:00:04 AM
Another article featuring Stasi Peljor the soap lover and his BS. To make money, Tricycle didn't fail to get people who disparage their gurus, do centre hopping and blame others for their failure to make up such a cheap and worthless piece of writing.

The East German Stasi Tenzin Peljor is quoted to say he recounts that when he was still in the NKT he himself used to turn a blind eye to problems in the community because he clung to the notion that he had to maintain a “peaceful state of mind.” How strange it is that he made a choice to follow the rules but to twist it around to make himself the victim of the situation.

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The One Pure Dharma
The New Kadampa Tradition is controversial—and growing. Why?

By Judith HertogWINTER 2018

When she first encountered Kadampa Buddhism 20 years ago, Ani Jamgyal liked that it offered modern Buddhist teachings adapted to today’s Western society, without the trappings of another culture and its history.

“I have no nostalgia for old Tibetan feudal politics,” she says, “and I have no desire to learn how to make butter tea or eat tsampa.”

Ani Jamgyal, a 63-year-old Buddhist nun who is the daughter of a Baptist minister and lives in the mountains outside Albuquerque, has no interest in meddling in Tibetan politics or traveling to the East, because, she says, there are enough problems here in the United States. As a social justice activist who cares about such issues as racism, immigrant rights, and poverty, she wanted not to escape into the exoticism and problems of another culture but rather to find pure Buddhist teachings that could be applied to the problems of the present. “What drew me to Buddhism were its teachings, not everything around it,” says Jamgyal.

That’s what she thought she had found in Kadampa Buddhism, a new Tibetan Buddhist tradition that also goes by the name New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (abbreviated to NKT-IKBU, or just the NKT). New Kadampa Buddhism was established in 1991 in Britain by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (affectionally called Geshe-la by his disciples), a Tibetan lama born in 1931 in Central Tibet, who in the ’70s came to Britain to teach Buddhism.

Many Westerners have been drawn, like Ani Jamgyal, to the NKT’s systematic study program, which offers a simple process of ordination and books that explain Buddhist philosophy and practice in terms that are easily understood by Western audiences. The NKT has been so successful in attracting Western practitioners that it is already one of the largest Buddhist traditions in Britain and is growing in the US and globally, with 1,200 centers currently open worldwide and new centers opening up all the time. Just this year, new NKT temples and centers have opened in Boston; Washington, DC; Fort Lauderdale; Oslo; and Paris. The International Kadampa Retreat Center near the Grand Canyon in Arizona, which opened its doors in June 2017, has started construction on the fifth Kadampa World Peace Temple, which will seat close to a thousand worshippers. The organization has also expanded quickly in countries such as Mexico and Brazil, and the NKT’s unique canon of texts has been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, and Chinese.

Unlike most Buddhist traditions, the NKT asks ordained members to take only ten vows, which according to Kelsang Gyatso replace all the hundreds of vows usually required of ordained Buddhists. “If it were not for the NKT,” says Ani Jamgyal, “I probably would not have chosen to become a nun.”

But Jamgyal discovered that the NKT was not as far removed from “feudal Tibetan politics” as she had hoped. By joining the NKT, she was in fact being pulled into a religious conflict dating back centuries and had inadvertently become a member of an organization that has been accused of being sectarian, controversial, and so concerned with religious purity that it has isolated itself from the wider Buddhist world. It turned out that as a member of the NKT, Jamgyal was expected to denounce the Dalai Lama and reject all spiritual teachers besides Kelsang Gyatso, who is viewed by many NKT members as the sole holder and savior of pure dharma.

“Kelsang Gyatso is the source of all authority in the NKT,” says David Kay, a British researcher who wrote his PhD thesis on the organization’s formation. “The NKT presented his books as the emanations of the mind of a Buddha.”

Kelsang Gyatso’s decision to split off from the Tibetan Buddhist establishment and create a new tradition was in fact the culmination of an old conflict about a protector deity associated with the Gelug school named Dorje Shugden. Shugden is entrusted with guarding the purity of the teachings of the 14th-century master Je Tsongkhapa and is said to punish and terrorize wayward monks who take an interest in the teachings of competing Buddhist schools. Gelug Buddhists see Tsongkhapa as a reformer who restored the purity of Buddha’s doctrine in Tibet after other Buddhist schools had lost their way. The Gelug school was originally a small movement that challenged older Tibetan Buddhist schools, but it quickly grew in popularity and in the 17th century, under the leadership of the 5th Dalai Lama, became the dominant Buddhist order in Tibet.

“There has always been a strongly sectarian stream in Gelug Buddhism,” says Georges Dreyfus, a professor of religion at Williams College who is the first Westerner to have completed the Geshe Lharampa degree, the most advanced Tibetan Buddhist academic degree, in Dharamsala. Dreyfus explains that Dorje Shugden already existed as a minor wrathful deity in the Gelug tradition by the 17th century. But with the rise in popularity, in the early 20th century, of the ecumenical Rimé movement, which argues that different Tibetan Buddhist traditions all offer equally valid paths to the dharma, the conservative Gelug elite felt that the supremacy of the Gelug school was threatened. Pabongka, an influential Gelug monk in Lhasa, promoted the worship of Dorje Shugden in order to preserve Gelug purity and discourage Gelug monks from adopting the Rimé movement’s inclusive philosophy. Pabongka passed his sectarian views on to his disciple Trijang Rinpoche, who later became the current Dalai Lama’s junior tutor and introduced the young Dalai Lama to Dorje Shugden.

Everything changed when the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 to escape the Chinese occupation. In exile, the Dalai Lama concluded that Tibetan unity was more important than the supremacy and purity of the Gelug tradition, and he adopted the inclusive outlook of the Rimé movement. Tensions built steadily as he distanced himself from Dorje Shugden. Eventually, he demanded that Gelug practitioners refrain from worshipping the deity entirely, which caused a rift in the Gelug school. A number of Gelug lamas in the Tibetan exile community, most of them disciplines of Trijang, turned against the Dalai Lama.

Among the most vocal of the protestors was Kelsang Gyatso, who had been sent to England originally to teach Gelug Buddhism and who had meanwhile gained the loyalty of a number of committed students. Kelsang Gyatso was so aggrieved by the Dalai Lama’s rejection of Dorje Shugden that he decided to split off from of the mainstream Gelug establishment and branch off on his own. With the help of his senior disciples, he translated the key texts of his lineage into English and in 1991 created a completely Western tradition in which he was the only Tibetan: the New Kadampa Tradition, named after the medieval Tibetan Kadam school that later developed into the Gelug tradition.

David Kay says the NKT sees Kelsang Gyatso as a figure similar to Atisha, the 11th-century Bengali Buddhist sage who founded the Kadam school and safeguarded the pure dharma by transmitting his teachings in Tibet while Buddhism was in decline in his native Bengal.

“Some [NKT] practitioners are absolutely certain this is the last opportunity to find pure Buddhism in the world, and that everything else is corrupt,” says Kay. He has encountered NKT disciples who not only avoided the teachings of other Buddhist schools but also would not even read the English translations of texts by Kelsang Gyatso’s own teachers, because they said they distrusted any text that was not by Kelsang Gyatso himself.

Kelsang Gyatso’s own texts follow mainstream conservative Gelug teachings, but once transported to the West, the Gelug emphasis on pure lineage was taken to the extreme. NKT teachers are, for example, expected to memorize Kelsang Gyatso’s texts so that they can faithfully reproduce his teachings without confusing students with misguided interpretations.

“To teach is to be essentially given a script,” says Gen Kelsang Wangden, a 44-year-old monk who is the resident teacher of Menlha Kadampa Buddhist Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, adding that the teachings he has been given are “really clear and really effective and beautiful.”

In 1996, when the Dalai Lama instructed Tibetan Buddhists to refrain from worshipping Dorje Shugden, denouncing the deity as “a malevolent spirit that arose out of misguided intentions,” he provoked the fury of Shugden devotees. (In that same year, Kelsang Gyatso was officially expelled from Sera Je Monastic University in India; the expulsion notice read that he was expelled for “blatantly shameless mad pronouncements attacking with baseless slander His Holiness the Dalai Lama.”) The NKT, which had placed Dorje Shugden at the center of its worship—Kelsang Gyatso considers Dorje Shugden a buddha—organized demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns to denounce the Dalai Lama’s “religious oppression.” Twenty years later, in 2015, Reuters reported that the NKT was behind a protest group, the International Shugden Community, that organized demonstrations against the Dalai Lama when he visited the US. At every destination on his tour, the Dalai Lama was met by groups of protestors—many of them NKT members—who heckled him with slogans such as “False Dalai Lama, give religious freedom!” and “Dalai Lama, stop lying!”

“Geshe-la was part of a tradition that was lost in Tibet, just as the Tibetan government in exile itself is lost now,” says Gen Kelsang Chonden, a long-time British disciple of Kelsang Gyatso, and, when I saw him, Resident Teacher of the Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre in Brighton, England. He had been visiting the 2017 US Festival at the US Kadampa World Peace Temple in Glen Spey, New York, which hosted NKT members from all over the world. Dressed in long maroon Tibetan robes, Gen Chonden sat on the temple steps and talked about the decline of Buddhism in Tibet. He said that the Dalai Lama has not only betrayed his own teacher and tradition but also wants to “force others to abandon that tradition as well,” referring, of course, to the Dalai Lama’s position on Dorje Shugden.

The NKT itself is not directly affected by the Dalai Lama’s rejection of Shugden, but Chonden says the organization must protest the Dalai Lama’s stance on Shugden because millions of Shugden devotees are suffering persecution and have asked the NKT for help in preventing the destruction of their tradition. There is indeed evidence that Dorje Shugden devotees in the Tibetan exile community are socially stigmatized and marginalized. However, the NKT’s claims of persecution are wildly exaggerated, and Amnesty International has declined to investigate the NKT’s allegation of human rights abuses against Shugden worshippers, citing lack of evidence. In fact, devotion to Dorje Shugden is encouraged by the authorities in Chinese-controlled Tibet—in 2015, Reuters published an article that exposed China’s use of the Shugden conflict to undermine the Dalai Lama and position itself to control the selection of his next incarnation. [See “The Red Lamas.”]

Still, Chonden insists that the Dalai Lama is suppressing freedom of religion and destroying his own spiritual lineage. “In the Tibetan exile community in India, Buddhism has become politicized,” he says. “We are grateful that Geshe-la has preserved the pure Mahayana teachings for us.”

After several years in the NKT, Ani Jamgyal finally realized that Kelsang Gyatso’s feud with the Dalai Lama meant he expected his disciples to campaign publicly against the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile. In 2011, Jamgyal decided to distance herself from the organization. She had tried to ignore the Shugden conflict because she appreciated the clarity of Kelsang Gyatso’s teachings, but it became impossible to separate the teachings from the politics that came with them.

“Part of it was realizing how completely isolated that group is from the rest of the whole Buddhist world,” says Jamgyal. “It felt as if I were doing something naughty when I was reading books by other teachers, including His Holiness—and it’s just crazy that reading dharma made me feel as if I were 16 and smoking a joint behind a garage!”

Renato Barajas, a monk from Mexico who ordained in the NKT in 2013 and left the organization in 2017, had an experience similar to Jamgyal’s. He says that while NKT seems to newcomers like an open, welcoming organization, it becomes increasingly restrictive and controlling once practitioners are drawn inside. “The NKT has two different faces: one is for the media and the public, and the other is for the people inside the NKT,” he says.

Kelsang Gyatso, who turned 87 in June 2018, withdrew from public life in 2013 and has not been seen in public since then; the NKT is now led by his senior disciples. A General Spiritual Director is elected for an eight-year term to oversee the spiritual development of the tradition. The current Director is Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, a British nun who has studied with Kelsang Gyatso for over 30 years. Neil Elliott, Kelsang Gyatso’s original “heart-disciple,” had to give up his robes in 1996 because he broke his monastic vow of celibacy. (Elliott ran the NKT teacher-training program as a lay practitioner until reinitiating as a monk in April 2017 with the name Gen-la Kelsang Thubten; he has now taken a role as a senior teacher.) Despite Kelsang Gyatso’s reclusiveness, however, Geshe-la is still the ultimate authority of the organization and remains present in his writings.

According to Barajas, advanced NKT disciples are told that Kelsang Gyatso is a buddha who watches over them and guides their lives. He is venerated as an infallible source of wisdom, and some disciples have even speculated that he may be the third Buddha, which would elevate him to the same spiritual level as Je Tsongkhapa, whom many Gelug Buddhists consider the second Buddha, and the same level as Siddhartha Gautama, the first Buddha.

Critics of the NKT say that such devotion to Kelsang Gyatso is unhealthy—indeed, they argue that such certainty of faith requires a closed-mindedness that to many seems out of place in a modern, pluralistic world. Geshe Dakpa Topgyal, for one, is wary.

“Nobody can claim to be the only one to know the truth,” says Topgyal, a Gelug monk with a geshe degree from Drepung monastery in India who now leads the Charleston Tibetan Society in South Carolina according to Rimé philosophy. “The problem is that Kelsang Gyatso wants his disciples to see him as the only legitimate one, the only one who is qualified. There is no room for critical thinking. This is dangerous in every aspect!” Geshe Topgyal points out that the Buddha himself warned against “blindly clinging to one’s own view and thought.”

This danger isn’t mere theory—the NKT’s modus operandi has led to several real-life consequences for its members. Former NKT member Jamie Kostek, who joined the NKT sangha in Seattle in 2007, when she was 24, and left in 2012, has personally observed the dangers of blind devotion. “Everyone looks so happy when you come in,” says Kostek. “You have no idea of all the suffering going on behind the scenes.” She says she felt pressured to constantly convince herself she was happy in the NKT, because unhappiness is a sign of spiritual failing. “And we truly felt fortunate to have these teachings,” she says, “because we were constantly told that this is the only path that will lead to nirvana.” She believed that if she completely devoted herself to Geshe-la, she would attain enlightenment in three years, three months, and three weeks. “Then, when you’re still not enlightened, you’re convinced you did something wrong and did not dedicate enough of yourself to Geshe-la,” she explains. “So you become ordained or give away all your money to prove you’re worthy.” Kostek had no money to give, but she often volunteered 35 hours per week for the organization while holding down a job and taking care of her young son. “I felt I had to do it to gain spiritual merit,” she says, and adds that she worked herself into such exhaustion, she did not even have time to meditate.

But Kostek started questioning the NKT when she noticed how the organization treated its most vulnerable members. She says some of the ordained people in her community who struggled with serious mental illnesses were encouraged to go off their medications and try to heal themselves through spiritual practice. She also tells the story of an elderly nun who had been encouraged to sell her house and donate the proceeds to the NKT—and then paid rent to live in a basement at the NKT center. Kostek explains that there was constant pressure in the NKT to contribute to its International Temples Project, which aims to build Kadampa temples around the world.

According to INFORM, a British nonprofit organization that investigates new religious movements, the NKT’s finances in Britain have been able to grow through shrewd real-estate investments financed by member donations and properties restored through volunteer construction work. But when members have spoken up to question decisions or mismanagement, the NKT’s leadership has been unwilling to listen. INFORM also reports that the NKT has regularly tried to silence critics by using British libel laws as a threat. (In one such case, the British Buddhist scholar Gary Beesley was forced to withdraw a book about the NKT just before its publication date.)

Despite this pressure, some critics of the NKT remain outspoken. One is Tenzin Peljor, a former NKT practitioner from Germany who, after having been involved with the NKT for more than five years, left the tradition and reordained as a monk with the Dalai Lama. Tenzin Peljor, who says he now leans towards the Rimé philosophy, has run a blog for some time called Struggling with Difficult Issues, in which he has addressed controversial topics in Tibetan Buddhism.

Tenzin recounts that when he was still in the NKT he himself used to turn a blind eye to problems in the community, because he clung to the notion that he had to maintain a “peaceful state of mind.”

“They keep telling you that you have special karma to have become part of this exceptionally pure tradition,” he says, “and then your ego gets hooked, and you become delusional because you are cut off from mainstream Buddhism and other sources that can correct your delusion. And after you have committed 10 or 12 years, it takes enormous bravery to admit that you made a mistake.”

Tenzin Peljor has strong opinions about Kelsang Gyatso himself. He describes the NKT leader as a narcissistic personality who sees himself as the sole savior of pure Buddhism. “His mind is manifest in the culture of the NKT,” says Tenzin, adding that the result is an organization so fixated on spreading Kelsang Gyatso’s teachings that it is willing to sacrifice the well-being of its practitioners to expand and attract new students.

“This is a personality cult,” says Tenzin.

When contacted for a response, a representative for NKT’s US headquarters wrote, “According to the NKT’s constitution, the NKT cannot be involved in political activity. For this reason the NKT does not accept any requests for interviews.”

“The NKT is the end result of a long trajectory of radicalization,” says Professor Dreyfus of Williams College. He remembers Kelsang Gyatso as someone who had a reputation as a learned monk, and says Gyatso’s former colleagues are puzzled. “The whole thing is bizarre. Kelsang Gyatso’s books are good. He is smart. He is learned, he is a good practitioner,” says Dreyfus. “Many Tibetans who knew him told me they don’t understand. They thought they knew him, but now they have no idea what he is doing.”

Dreyfus is convinced that if Trijang Rinpoche were alive, he would disapprove of what became of his former pupil. “I knew Trijang Rinpoche very well, and I know that he would be positively horrified by the NKT if he were alive now,” says Dreyfus. “It’s inconceivable that he would have allowed this to happen.”

For her part, when Ani Jamgyal left the NKT, she wanted to remain a nun and so found a new teacher, who reordained her: Thrangu Rinpoche, a Kagyu teacher who belongs to the ecumenical Rimé movement. Jamgyal says she was touched when she first showed up at a teaching and was told she did not need to worry about having to renounce Kelsang Gyatso in order to become a disciple of Thrangu Rinpoche. “We are not sectarian,” she was told. “In our view you have simply expanded outward from the NKT to include us.”

The return to the “right” or “pure” dharma is one that Buddhists have sought ever since the Buddha’s death.
Jamgyal still appreciates how much she learned from Kelsang Gyatso’s writings, and she insists that she has not encountered any mainstream Buddhist teachings that contradict Kelsang Gyatso’s books. But her experience in the NKT has made her suspicious of Buddhist communities. Her takeaway is that there is always potential for abuse and sectarianism in any religious community. She is now reluctant to align herself too closely with any particular tradition and prefers to remain a solitary practitioner.

“I don’t understand this whole conflict. And I don’t care,” she says. “I just want to understand what the Buddha said.”

Many will recognize their own hopes in Jamgyal’s aspiration. The return to the “right” or “pure” dharma is one that Buddhists—including those in the West—have sought in various ways and in varying degrees ever since the Buddha’s death. The NKT is perhaps just one especially extreme example, an organization whose ideology has thrived in part because its members are from a social environment in which Buddhism is still new—meaning that they come to the NKT lacking a wider perspective on Buddhist history. Then, when they are discouraged from engaging with Buddhism’s broader dialogue, their views remain narrow.

To anyone searching for the one truth, Georges Dreyfus has a response: “Good luck with that!” He explains that even the earliest Buddhist texts may not reflect the exact words of the Buddha, since they were composed long after the Buddha had passed away. “What we are left with is not what the Buddha said but how the Buddha’s ideas and practices have been appropriated and transmitted by the various Buddhist traditions,” says Dreyfus. He sees this not as a problem, but as a beautiful intellectual richness that has sprouted from the original teachings of the Buddha. Of course, this richness does not provide one clear answer about what the Buddha taught, and its resplendence is dulled by centuries of religious polemics and conflicts. This is why Dreyfus advises practitioners to educate themselves about the history of Buddhism and the positions of the tradition they choose to follow—“so they can separate the teachings from the political baggage that comes with it.”

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The Red Lamas: The politics at play in the Dorje Shugden conflict

When the Dalai Lama in 1996 urged Tibetans to end the worship of the Gelug protector deity Dorje Shugden, he intended to strengthen Tibetan unity and promote harmony among the various Tibetan Buddhist schools. But although the majority of the Gelug community sided with the Dalai Lama, others refused to give up their worship of Dorje Shugden. Those monks, expelled from mainstream Gelug monasteries and marginalized in the Tibetan exile community, have established rival monasteries and sought new communities to support their teachings. Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of NKT, is one of these monks, but there are many more. Most of them share a lineage that traces back to Trijang Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama’s former teacher and a committed Shugden devotee.

According to the French Tibetologist Thierry Dodin, “Shugden lamas” have gained support in places such as Mongolia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Some have developed a warm relationship with China’s government, which has embraced the conflict to weaken the Dalai Lama. Although the Communist Party is secular, it tightly controls religious worship and has been promoting Dorje Shugden in Chinese-controlled Tibet. It has been reported that the Party has treated prominent Shugden lamas as honored guests and that Shugden activists have been receiving clandestine support. China also controls its own chosen Panchen Lama, historically the second most powerful lama in the Gelug lineage, who traditionally plays a key role in recognizing the next Dalai Lama. According to Dodin, the young Panchen Lama has been educated by Shugden lamas selected by the Chinese government.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Ani Jamgyal, after leaving the NKT, was reordained by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, an ecumenical Nyingma teacher. She was reordained by Thrangu Rinpoche.

Learn more about the Dorje Shugden controversy in Tricycle’s 1998 Special Section, “Deity or Demon?”

https://tricycle.org/magazine/the-one-pure-dharma/
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: pemachen on November 24, 2018, 03:35:18 AM
Another article featuring Stasi Peljor the soap lover and his BS. To make money, Tricycle didn't fail to get people who disparage their gurus, do centre hopping and blame others for their failure to make up such a cheap and worthless piece of writing.

The East German Stasi Tenzin Peljor is quoted to say he recounts that when he was still in the NKT he himself used to turn a blind eye to problems in the community because he clung to the notion that he had to maintain a “peaceful state of mind.” How strange it is that he made a choice to follow the rules but to twist it around to make himself the victim of the situation.

His centre-hopping hasn't ended yet. He now affiliates himself with Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa and FPMT. Looks like chances for fame and power is better and more promising than hanging out at Ringu Tulku's Bodhicharya Berlin.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Drolma on November 24, 2018, 06:20:09 PM
Another article featuring Stasi Peljor the soap lover and his BS. To make money, Tricycle didn't fail to get people who disparage their gurus, do centre hopping and blame others for their failure to make up such a cheap and worthless piece of writing.

The East German Stasi Tenzin Peljor is quoted to say he recounts that when he was still in the NKT he himself used to turn a blind eye to problems in the community because he clung to the notion that he had to maintain a “peaceful state of mind.” How strange it is that he made a choice to follow the rules but to twist it around to make himself the victim of the situation.

His centre-hopping hasn't ended yet. He now affiliates himself with Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa and FPMT. Looks like chances for fame and power is better and more promising than hanging out at Ringu Tulku's Bodhicharya Berlin.

This Tenzin Peljor will go to where the money is. He is exposed to maintaining a few websites to undermine and spreading negative news about NKT and Dorje Shugden. As a monk, he should be busy with studying or giving teaching but he is not doing any of it. Instead, he is busy spreading the negative news.

He likes to hop from center to center. He was first ordained by Geshela, then he disrobed. Later he went for ordination again! This time, he was ordained by the Dalai Lama. He will find his way to be associated with famous people to bring his own status up.

He and the CTA are the perfect match because they are both driven by money. That is why they can work together so well. I feel sad for the people who are going to receive the teachings from Tenzin Peljor because his teaching is not from his heart. Even if he can explain the text so well but because he doesn't walk the talk, his teaching will not be impactful.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on November 28, 2018, 01:41:44 AM
Diamond Way did the right thing to sue Stasi East German midget wolf in monk robes, aka Tenzin Peljor of FPMT (self-victimised as NKT survivor), who is known to be hired by the Tibetan Leadership (CTA) and did a really bad job in disparaging lamas and centres around the world. After lawsuits for defaming other Buddhist teachers, this fake monk is now quiet and finally shut up about Dorje Shugden recently.

Previously, he loves making up ugly stories about the deity and high lamas who practice this deity. This East German stazi monk is a Nazi by nature who lives in the communist world before the wall between the two Germanies broke apart. Therefore, he doesn’t respect people’s right to practice what they want.

Lucky for him that karma has a fantastic memory, so his karma came back to him for all the lies he told on other Buddhist teachers which is none of his business!
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: thaimonk on December 09, 2018, 06:52:53 PM

This comment by Kevin Dalton dated September 19, 2014 is a few years old but very spot on. Kevin explains the situation with Tenzin Peljor perfectly. From all the defamation Tenzin Peljor does on his blog, finally Diamond Way has sued the heck out of him in Europe. This has taught him a lesson and he is starting to make announcements that he is going to stop blogging. High time! Many things he has posted on his twisted blog is saved by quite a few number of persons who are watching him carefully. Because more defamation suits may come his way.

As a Buddhist monk, why is he defaming people on his blog? What kind of representation does he give Buddhist monks? Not very good representation obviously. Who made him the police of Buddhism? No one.

Now since his court case in Germany, he is hiding in some FPMT program in Italy trying to look like he is doing something productive. We all know he is hiding.

Buddhist 'monks' like Tenzin Peljor should really stop wearing robes as he is such a bad representation of the dharma and sangha. He makes people lose faith completely.

Thaimonk

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Kevin Dalton says:


I wouldn't take Tenpel seriously, he's Tenzin Peljor, a self-styled German Buddhist monk who's made it his lifes work to slander Dorje Shugden, Dorje Shugden practitioners, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and the NKT.

He was recently caught taking photographs for the CTA in Frankfurt of innocent Tibetans who were peacefully protesting for the right to religious freedom, the photos were used to compile a hitlist which was made public by the CTA and is now on their website.

He then broke German privacy laws by releasing the hitlist through the German Buddhist Association before the Dalai Lama's recent visit to Hamburg.

He's also authored a press releases which he releases through the German Buddhist association slandering innocent Dorje Shugden followers.

He runs his own slanderous blog which he promotes through the CTA and the German Buddhist Association.

He tries to come across as articulate and thoughtful but twists Dharma to justify the Dalai Lama's discrimination of the innocent.

As a reward for all his hard work when the Dalai Lama comes to town Tenpel is given a seat on stage during the Dalai Lama's teachings.

Also he's lying when he says Ling Rinpoche had serious reservations about the practice of Dorje Shugden, Ling Rinpoche shared the same Guru as Trijang Rinpoche, Je Pabongkhapa, who gave all his students the practice of Dorje Shugden, you won't find one historical reference of Ling Rinpoche doubting his Guru's teachings.

You might hear it from the mouth of the Dalai Lama but it's just one of the many lies he has told.

You can also find the Dalai Lama refer to Trijang Rinpoche as his root Guru in his first autobiogrpahy.

Tenpel's problem is he can't bear to see such a well written thoughtful article as he sees it as a threat to his works of slander and lies.

In reality Tenzin Peljor enjoys his own religious freedom, and his Human Rights are protected by German Law, he takes them for granted whilst spending his life demonizing innocent people and promoting religious apartheid.

Everything I've written about Tenzin Peljor or Trijang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche can be easily verified
on the internet - I didn't feel it appropriate to put post links on your blog :)

It's refreshing to see someone take the time to study the issues and bring a balanced view for anyone who wants to know the truth.

Thank you :)

Warm regards,
Kevin Dalton

September 19, 2014 at 3:57 PM

http://mountainphoenixovertibet.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-spirit-that-i-called-dorje-shugden_15.html (http://mountainphoenixovertibet.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-spirit-that-i-called-dorje-shugden_15.html)
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: thaimonk on December 09, 2018, 07:30:52 PM
Seems like Diamond Way took legal action against Tenzin Peljor and rightly so. He was defaming them left, right and centre. If he didn’t shut up, his legal fees could have been in the hundreds of thousands! Talk about instant karma catching up with someone for defaming Buddhist teachers like Lama Ole Nydahl, the founder of Diamond Way.

What Peljor doesn’t realise is that there are many more who want to sue him for the damage he tried to inflict on their teachers. Everyone has had more than enough of him using the excuse of trying to increase public awareness for his own self-centred motives. He defames to sensationalise non-existent issues to make himself look good. The fact is, Diamond Way centres are more popular than his own and that makes him jealous.

If what Tenzin Peljor said or claimed was true, and he really wanted to educate the public with good intent, Diamond Way wouldn’t have had a case against him. He would have had the upper hand in the court of law. But he didn’t and that speaks volumes to his intentions.

Peljor has really angered people online, everything he said or commented has been recorded and saved for future use. There is no way he’s going to be able to refute anything he has posted, even if he repeats his statements denying what he said. Oh well, that’s what you get when you’re self-centred and try to harm other people’s religion.

-Posted by We Need to Talk About Shugden Today on FB-


https://www.facebook.com/weneedtotalkaboutshugdentoday/photos/a.444884055661984/1153623158121400/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/weneedtotalkaboutshugdentoday/photos/a.444884055661984/1153623158121400/?type=3&theater)


^^^^^^



I guess Tenzin Peljor is complaining again, but he is the one that started it by attacking and defaming everyone he does not like. What right does he have to say anything and publicly defame teachers, Buddhist traditions and the related? We are talking about publicly. He hurts the sentiments of so many people and people will stand up when they had enough. More and more people should stand up and take him to legal recourse. Let's hope he keeps quiet and behaves like the Buddhist monk he halloween as.


Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Rowntree on December 26, 2018, 09:32:55 AM
I guess Tenzin Peljor is complaining again, but he is the one that started it by attacking and defaming everyone he does not like. What right does he have to say anything and publicly defame teachers, Buddhist traditions and the related? We are talking about publicly. He hurts the sentiments of so many people and people will stand up when they had enough. More and more people should stand up and take him to legal recourse. Let's hope he keeps quiet and behaves like the Buddhist monk he halloween as.

Tenzin Peljor is a queen. He was hired by the CTA solely for that. He loves and seeks attention by disparaging everyone. He has a high sense of entitlement and believes everyone owes him an apology. He loves to police and speaks like a bit*h. He cannot change, the need to be heard and be right no matter what is so strong in him that he would do anything to make sure he is right and the world is wrong. He doesn't care about anyone because in his world there is only him and others. He is the right one and he will always be.

I hope he keeps disparaging and let other centres and lamas he disparage sue him to his grave...
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Tracy on February 03, 2019, 01:31:18 PM
Tenzin Peljor should not be allowed to be a monk, he is money minded, he becomes a monk because he wants people to respect him. He was ordained a few times because he couldn't make up his mind whether he wants to be a layperson or a monk. How can a person who is not sure of what he wants be a good monk?

As a monk, he should be studying and teaching Dharma but he is not. He spent his time setting up websites to criticise other lamas or centers. He pays no respect to people who work hard to preserve and spread Dharma. He is very damaging to Buddhism.

The CTA is also very damaging to Buddhism, they hire Tenzin Peljor to help them to spread lies and rumours of the people and organisation that don't agree with them. For examples, the NKT and other Dorje Shugden followers. They always accuse Dorje Shugden followers are Chinese spies and blame them for the failure of Tibet cause. But truth prevails, very soon no one will believe CTA's lies anymore.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Alex on February 18, 2019, 04:04:38 PM
Tenzin Peljor should not be allowed to be a monk, he is money minded, he becomes a monk because he wants people to respect him. He was ordained a few times because he couldn't make up his mind whether he wants to be a layperson or a monk. How can a person who is not sure of what he wants be a good monk?

As a monk, he should be studying and teaching Dharma but he is not. He spent his time setting up websites to criticise other lamas or centers. He pays no respect to people who work hard to preserve and spread Dharma. He is very damaging to Buddhism.

The CTA is also very damaging to Buddhism, they hire Tenzin Peljor to help them to spread lies and rumours of the people and organisation that don't agree with them. For examples, the NKT and other Dorje Shugden followers. They always accuse Dorje Shugden followers are Chinese spies and blame them for the failure of Tibet cause. But truth prevails, very soon no one will believe CTA's lies anymore.

Tibetan leadership is really an evil government that can do anything just to get what they want. They are willing to hire a monk to do their evil deeds. They are supposed to protect Tibetan Buddhism and make sure their people or the people that are around His Holiness the Dalai Lama have good conduct and not bring any bad name to Buddhism.

However, they hired the monk Tenzin Peljor to do their dirty deeds and to attack their enemies. This is just one of the nasty things that Tibetan leadership did to make sure everything goes according to their plan. Someone needs to make Tenzin Peljor disrobe so that he won't be creating much more negative karma by wearing those holy robes.

He does not hold his vows right because he is all over the place criticizing other people's path which is not a very nice thing to do as a monk. Monk should be studying and teaching the Dharma instead of going around offending people and spread lies about other centers. He should stop it before he get sued for the second time.
Title: Re: Tenzin Peljor the CTA’s puppet exposed
Post by: Drolma on April 02, 2019, 07:14:54 PM
Tenzin Pejor is a spy, he is not a monk. He has an interesting history. He was a secret agent in East Germany before. Later, he was ordained and disrobed, ordained and disrobed for a few times. His mind seems to change all the time, sometimes this, sometimes that. He couldn't even decide whether he wanted to become a monk or not.

When NKT people were protesting, he was caught taking pictures of the NKT members who were at the protest. He was found to be the owner of a few websites that spread rumours and lies about Dorje Shugden. As a monk, he should be studying or teaching but instead, he is destroying Buddhism.

Tenzin Peljor did not renounce even though he is wearing the monk's robe. Perhaps he thinks wearing a monk's robe makes him a holy person. Someone really has to give him some teachings on the basic of Buddhism especially how karma works.  He has to just focus on his study and become a good teacher.