DHARAMSHALA/GAYA, JAN 8: The Tibetan Prime Minister (Sikyong) Dr. Lobsang Sangay today in a rebuttal to China’s denial of pressuring Tibetans from Tibet to attend the Kalachakra called Beijing’s claim an ‘exaggeration’.
“It is a fact that those who are here for pilgrimage with legal permits and documents from the Chinese authorities have been directed to return and failure to do so would result in severe consequences,” the PM Sangay said at a press conference in Bodh Gaya.
Read more of this news report here:
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=38538&article=Tibetan+PM+refutes+China%27s+denial+of+recalling+Tibetans+from+KalachakraHere goes Sikyong Sangay slapping China all over again and meddling in religious affairs. His political survival strategy has not changed at all and because of this, Tibetans are to expect more of the same results with regards to their demand for Tibetan autonomy - none, zilch, nada, zero, zip. Tibetans please read on.
Let's dissect the situation.
First of all, get it straight, Sikyong Sangay is the Prime Minister and politician. Harvard Law graduate not Geshe-la, not monk.
His Holiness Dalai Lama is the religious leader, emanation of Boddhisattva Chenrezig, and has explicitly dropped his political role since 2011.
The Kalachakra initiations and teachings are a religious affair just like the pilgrimage which the Tibetan Chinese were on, as reported in the above news article. Tibetans were given legal permits and documents from the Chinese authorities to carry out their pilgrimage to the holiest place in the Buddhist world - Bodhgaya. Read that again, yes, the Tibetan Chinese were given permits and documents from the Chinese authorities to carry out a religious pilgrimage to Bodhgaya. Hooray! Rejoice! Good on you China!
Now if His Holiness Dalai Lama were to be only linked to spiritual leadership and practice as many other religious leaders are, do you think China would have advised these pilgrims not to attend the Kalachakra teachings and initiations? No. Why? Because it would be seen as a 100% genuine religious event.
But who continues to time and time again politically-link His Holiness to be an anti-Chinese crusader? Sikyong Sangay and gang of course. How? Dorje Shugden.
Sikyong Sangay and gang has turned what is religious advice from His Holiness Dalai Lama into internal and external religious discrimination and tainted the sanctity of the position of the Dalai Lama by calling all Dorje Shugden practitioners Chinese spies, Chinese funded anti-Tibetan traitors, and more.
Sikyong Sangay and gang are the ones who continuously label His Holiness Dalai Lama as anti-Chinese by taking His Holiness' religious advice on Dorje Shugden to become "ban the Chinese sympathizers".
Sikyong Sangay and gang are the ones who deliberately and falsely paint devoted spiritual practitioners who have no other agenda than to practise, teach and spread what the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni has taught us fortunate beings, as Chinese "dogs".
Tibetans, it is time to make a stand on the separation of religion and state.
Only His Holiness Dalai Lama and only him, should have the authority over general religious affairs of the Tibetans and His Holiness has clearly stated recently that there is nothing wrong in practicing Dorje Shugden.
Tell your politicians to take their hands out of commenting on religious affairs and stop spreading lies about Dorje Shugden practitioners.
Only then can the talks over Tibetan autonomy commence.