Just follow up to the documentary made by Swiss public TV about Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden in 1998.
There is a updated article talking about this issue and I quote some here:
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"Religious prosecution", "Human violation", "Demand religious freedom". If you heard these words from a Tibetan in exile, you would think they're talking about P.R.C. Can you imagine they may refer to the Tibetan government in exile?
In December of 1996, a protest was held in India against a newly issued ban of worshipping "Dorje Shugden" (a.k.a Dholgyal), a respected religious deity Tibetans have been worshiped for 300 years. The ban was issued by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama...
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read more here:
http://tibetgeneral.iforums.us/vp15.html#15
What is Dorje Shugden? Here is their official website:
http://www.dorjeshugden.com/index.htm
and voice of Dorje Shugden, i quote some here:
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Two groups outside Sanford Field House shouted slogans and held placards protesting the Dalai Lama’s stand on two issues – autonomy for Tibet and his banning of worship of Dorje Shugden, a protective diety in the Tibetan Buddhist faith.
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In the other protest, hundreds of Buddhist monks, nuns and other practitioners of Dorje Shugden called for the 72-year-old monk to stop discrimination against the Shugden believers and allow for the freedom of worship.
In 1996, the Dalai Lama said the worship of Dorje Shugden was banned because the deity was a threat to the future of Tibet.
But for the protestors, the ban is unfounded and oppressive, they said.
Ah Dhar, a Tibetan and a believer in Shugden, said the Dalai Lama is tearing the Buddhist religion into many pieces by banning the sect.
There is too much suffering among the Tibetan people because of it, he said.
“He says peace but doesn’t give us religious freedom,” said Dhar, who arrived from Tibet to participate in the protest.
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I fail to understand how one month the Dalia lama is throwing a 350 year old lineage out of the Tibetan Buddhism and the next he is inciting rioting and causing more deaths among Tibetans. Why does the world not care to see that the Chinese liberated Tibetans from the servitude of a medieval society that fed on the backs of slaves,indentured servitude, poverty, illiteracy under the authority of anything other than a democratic government and he continues to be anything other than a democratic leader....
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read more here:
http://www.sumatiarya.nl/voiceofDorjeShugden.html
more resources:
An open letter to Dalai Lama
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/fr99/gkg2.htm
Tibetan Parliament in Exile's Resolution of June 1996
http://www.tibet.com/dholgyal/CTA-book/chapter-3-1.html
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