World Shugden Convention Held in Bangkok

Just teach, study and practice wisdom and compassion, HHDL or CTA can’t stop you anyway beacause they can’t stop the basic freedom of lastingness and non-existence itself beacause they are free of lastingness and non-existence.

Nobody can stop you from study and practice of your own inherent dignity that is wisdom and compassion.

Anything that is free of lastingness and non-existence can’t manipulate nor destroy lastingness and non-existence itself. Therefore wisdom and compassion, due to space and conciousness that is rooted in space, can’t be stopped or destroyed anyway.

So nobody can manipulate or destroy your own wisdom and compassion as well healing/transforming activity like dharma study and practice.

So no matter what HHDL or CTA is doing, they can’t stop wisdom and compassion anyway.

So I don’t see a problem at all, because nobody can’t stop someone to study and practice ons own essence and nature of conciounsness hence we are all running around because and with it and allways can practice dharma practice.

We are aware and our pure awareness is our yidam that is the embodiment of all aspects of our own wisdom and compassion/pure awareness.

All blessings come from the essence and nature of space- and conciousnesscontinuum. So all Linages come from space and conciousnesscontinuum and space- and conciousnesscontinuum is still there and allways will be there, no matter what happens and we can stop to ignore it and become free.

Just practice dharma and find out/reveal non-duality and your own wisdom and compassion for yourself. Don’t follow other people anyway, just follow your own wisdom and compassion.

Thats why samaya with space- and own conciousnesscontinuum is important and all Lamas are connectet with and you are connectet with too anyway.

So thats why Vajrasattva protects samaya with Varajsattva (Healing Power of conciousness or own dignity) and space or non-duality/wisdom and compassion itself.

So if you want connection with your Lama and Blessings you just use your own yidam by dharma practice to effect this.

So I don’t see any problems, just practice and give dharma and enjoy it, thats it.

And if CTA or HHDL is fighting against this, well then practice dharma to help them to become free.

Remeber there is only one world order and only one law, that is cause and effect due to space or basic freedom of lastingness and non-existence. No beeing is able to rule the world like space anyway. All beeings are ruled by space and conciousnesscontinuum and this one and only basic law within but not by anything else.

So just practice dharma and have fun with it …

Love you all my dear dharma sisters and brothers around the world

Why are there so few in attendance?

It is certainly encouraging to see this development and I hope to see more and more collective initiatives to peacefully and yet firmly bring the ban down.

Frankly, I would like to see a lot more engagement from other Shugden lamas and monks but this is a great start. Dorje Shugden benefits so many people and it is only right that those who have benefitted from this great Protector become involved in efforts to preserve its lineage.

I read a comment here that asks “why are there so few in attendance” and I thought surely this must be proof that Shugden practitioners are not funded by China as the propaganda goes. I am sure China is rich enough to fill an auditorium if indeed they intended to pay Shugden worshippers to agitate the Tibetan establishment, and yet we see from this assembly that this is not the case.

Personally I am looking forward to reading more news like this one and I hope to see more people monks and laypeople become involved in making a stand against the oppressive Shugden ban. May this be the beginning of a strong and collective movement of Shugden worshippers around the world.

It is great to held World Shugden Convention to exchange views , information and most important is to consolidate actions against continuous suppression by the His Holiness Dalai Lama and his followers.

Shugden practitioners are suffered a lot since the ban in 1996 .This is the time to raise the awareness to everyone in the world. Hope this issue can be resolved quickly so that Shugden practitioners can concentrate and continue their practices.

I’m very glad to know that the World Shugden Convention was held, to talk things through and to make plans on what to do next to lift the ban. The Dorje Shugden ban has been going on for too long now and many innocent people have been hurt one way or another due to the existence of the ban, therefore it’s extremely crucial to work together in unity and peace to lift the ban.

We have to create the causes, we have to do the work and we have to start speaking up now and not wait for others to do it. Dorje Shugden is our protector, our lineage, our dharma work, I would say that it’s so called our ‘duty’ (sorry for lack of a better word) to lift the ban.

It is good to see the coming together of The World Shugden Convention. Hopefully with time, the movement can move forward with greater momentum as one unit. Sharing of information is sharing of knowledge. With a united front, the world would have to pay attention and acknowledge this discrimination and displacement of an already displaced people.

I like Marissa’s comment “surely this must be proof that Shugden practitioners are not funded by China as the propaganda goes. I am sure China is rich enough to fill an auditorium if indeed they intended to pay Shugden worshippers to agitate the Tibetan establishment, and yet we see from this assembly that this is not the case.” Yes, that is definitely a case in point.

Great start – “A journey of a thousand miles start with a single step”.

It’s great that the Shugden society make the initiative to continue working towards lifting the ban of Dorje Shugden. While remembering about what has happened in the past to Dorje Shugden practitioners is important, what’s more important is from this point forward, the steps taken to lift the ban on Dorje Shugden. I’m looking forward to hear more about their future plans and initiatives.

This is a good start and I am glad to see leaders of the Tibetan community coming together to discuss ways to fight a very damaging ban.

In the past the ISC did a great job in creating awareness of the conflict and the religious oppression of Shugden worshippers. Then, Shugden haters said that westerners have no stake in what is essentially a ‘Tibetan issue’. I think with conventions such as this one, more Tibetans will become interested and involved.

The Shugden issue is not only a religious issue but a collective Tibetan issue. While the fault lines wear a religious label, the damage is incurred by the entire Tibetan community. This is even before we talk about the human rights aspect that ought to draw the attention of global human rights watchdogs and defenders.

What all Shugden lamas and worshippers must realise is that that efforts such as this need the support of all Shugden monks and therefore the time will come when all should stand and be counted in the fight against what is an attempt to destroy Je Tsongkhapa’s pure lineage.

Good job to the organisers.

Thank you dorjeshugden.com for always sharing news and articles to keep us updated.

I’m shocked to hear that the exile community’s situation became more dire to the point that monks refused to carry out funeral rites for the deceased Shugden practitioners. Because of politics, the monks are now so ‘polluted’ with politics that the affair of benefiting sentient beings (a deceased going into Bardo and taking rebirth) came second place after Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA’s) advice. CTA has caused the monks to not follow the teachings of Lord Buddha, but the ‘teachings’ of the CTA to separate, discriminate and hatred for those who are ‘against the cause of Tibet’. This is nonsense. In the Tibetan community, there is already a split between the people who wants independence (rangzen) and those who support autonomy as proposed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Middle Way/ path, Umaylam).

By the way, the government in exile is not seeking independence but autonomy, so if Shugden Lamas make good relations with China, as some of these Lamas are based in Tibet (China), wouldn’t that help the cause of Tibet – easier for the government in exile to have dialogue with the Chinese?

I am happy to hear that there is a meeting by the Shugden groups to consolidate and act against the on-going suppression and a resolution to achieve the removal of the ban on Dorje Shugden’s practice. Many HIgh Lamas practised and promoted Dorje Shugden practice in their region, so Shugden is not only practised in the monastery, but widely practised by Lamas who have many followers in different regions of Tibet. It is unfair and inhumane that people are prosecuted for their religious belief that does no harm to anyone.

Some of those in attendance are scholar, geshe, practitioners of Buddhism, especially those who have renounced the world, why waste one time to lift a ban that is non existent. They could have spent much more time in retreats and meditations and gain attainments. No sane person who has renounced the worlds and its activities for something that does not exist, and is not real.

The number of participants will grow in time, for sure, Je tsongkhapa’s teachings and the spread of it is stunted due to the Dorje Shudgen ban, Dorje Shugden has never been only helping us to solve normal problems, it is a a method leading us towards enlightenment.

What will the all the people around the world and in Tibet do now? Dalai Lama says he is happy that Tibet is a part of China and should remain a part of China. So many Tibetans self-immolated for Tibet to be independent and now Dalai Lama did a 360 degree turn and says he wants to go back to Tibet and China and Tibet should be a part of China. So unbelievable. So many are angry and disappointed.

Tibetans ready to be part of China: Dalai Lama
Organised by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the event was a part of “Thank You India – 2018″ held by the Tibetan community across India to mark 60 years of its exile in the country.
Indo-Asian News Service
Bengaluru
Tibetans are ready to be a part of China if guaranteed full rights to preserve their culture, the Dalai Lama said on Friday.
“Tibetans are not asking for independence. We are okay with remaining with the People’s Republic of China, provided we have full rights to preserve our culture,” the 83-year-old spiritual leader said at “Thank You Karnataka” event here in the city.
Organised by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the event was a part of “Thank You India – 2018″ held by the Tibetan community across India to mark 60 years of its exile in the country.
“Several of Chinese citizens practicing Buddhism are keen on Tibetan Buddhism as it is considered scientific,” the Nobel laureate said.
Born in Taktser hamlet in northeastern Tibet, the Dalai Lama was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. He fled to India from Tibet after a failed uprising against the Chinese rule in 1959.
China annexed Tibet in 1950, forcing thousands of Tibetans, including monks, to flee the mountain country and settle in India as refugees.
Since then, India has been home to over 100,000 Tibetans majorly settled in Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh among other states.
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/india/tibetans-ready-to-be-part-of-china-dalai-lama/293109.html

Why doesn’t the United States and its allies end Refugee Status for the useless Tibetans? They have been refugees for 60 years now and don’t tell me they still cannot get their lives back in order?

Tibetans really know how to put on a good show and use people, take their money and do nothing in return.

Trump and Allies Seek End to Refugee Status for Millions of Palestinians
In internal emails, Jared Kushner advocated a “sincere effort to disrupt” the U.N.’s relief agency for Palestinians.
BY COLUM LYNCH, ROBBIE GRAMER | AUGUST 3, 2018, 2:12 PM
Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, has quietly been trying to do away with the U.N. relief agency that has provided food and essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees for decades, according to internal emails obtained by Foreign Policy.
His initiative is part of a broader push by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress to strip these Palestinians of their refugee status in the region and take their issue off the table in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, according to both American and Palestinian officials. At least two bills now making their way through Congress address the issue.
Kushner, whom Trump has charged with solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been reluctant to speak publicly about any aspect of his Middle East diplomacy. A peace plan he’s been working on with other U.S. officials for some 18 months has been one of Washington’s most closely held documents.
But his position on the refugee issue and his animus toward the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is evident in internal emails written by Kushner and others earlier this year.
“It is important to have an honest and sincere effort to disrupt UNRWA,” Kushner wrote about the agency in one of those emails, dated Jan. 11 and addressed to several other senior officials, including Trump’s Middle East peace envoy, Jason Greenblatt.
“This [agency] perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace,” he wrote.
The United States has helped fund UNRWA since it was formed in 1949 to provide relief for Palestinians displaced from their homes following the establishment of the State of Israel and ensuing international war. Previous administrations have viewed the agency as a critical contributor to stability in the region.
But many Israel supporters in the United States today see UNRWA as part of an international infrastructure that has artificially kept the refugee issue alive and kindled hopes among the exiled Palestinians that they might someday return home—a possibility Israel flatly rules out.
Critics of the agency point in particular to its policy of granting refugee status not just to those who fled Mandatory Palestine 70 years ago but to their descendants as well—accounting that puts the refugee population at around 5 million, nearly one-third of whom live in camps across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and Gaza.
By trying to unwind UNRWA, the Trump administration appears ready to reset the terms of the Palestinian refugee issue in Israel’s favor—as it did on another key issue in December, when Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
In the same January email, Kushner wrote: “Our goal can’t be to keep things stable and as they are. … Sometimes you have to strategically risk breaking things in order to get there.”
Kushner raised the refugee issue with officials in Jordan during a visit to the region in June, along with Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt. According to Palestinian officials, he pressed the Jordan to strip its more than 2 million registered Palestinians of their refugee status so that UNRWA would no longer need to operate there.
“[Kushner said] the resettlement has to take place in the host countries and these governments can do the job that UNRWA was doing,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
She said the Trump administration wanted rich Arab Gulf states to cover the costs Jordan might incur in the process.
“They want to take a really irresponsible, dangerous decision and the whole region will suffer,” Ashrawi said.
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief negotiator, told reporters in June that Kushner’s delegation had said it was ready to stop funding UNRWA altogether and instead direct the money—$300 million annually—to Jordan and other countries that host Palestinian refugees.
“All this is actually aimed at liquidating the issue of the Palestinian refugees,” hesaid.
The White House declined to comment on the record for this story. A senior executive branch official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. policy regarding the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee program “has been under frequent evaluation and internal discussion. The administration will announce its policy in due course.”
Jordanian officials in New York and Washington did not respond to queries about the initiative.
Kushner and Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, both proposed ending funding for UNRWA back in January. But the State Department, the Pentagon, and the U.S. intelligence community all opposed the idea, fearing in part that it could fuel violence in the region.
The following week, the State Department announced that that United States would cut the first $125 million installment of its annual payment to UNRWA by more than half, to $60 million.
“UNRWA has been threatening us for six months that if they don’t get a check they will close schools. Nothing has happened,” Kushner wrote in the same email.
State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said at the time that the U.S. had no intention of eliminating funding for Palestinian refugees, and that it was taking time to explore ways to reform UNRWA and to convince other countries to help Washington shoulder the financial burden of aiding the Palestinians.
But the following day, Victoria Coates, a senior advisor to Greenblatt, sent an email to the White House’s national security staff indicating that the White House was mulling a way to eliminate the U.N.’s agency for Palestinian refugees.
“UNRWA should come up with a plan to unwind itself and become part of the UNHCR by the time its charter comes up again in 2019,” Coates wrote.
She noted that the proposal was one of a number of “spitball ideas that I’ve had that are also informed by some thoughts I’ve picked up from Jared, Jason and Nikki.”
Other ideas included a suggestion that the U.N. relief agency be asked to operate on a month-to-month budget and devise “a plan to remove all anti-Semitism from educational materials.”
The ideas seemed to track closely with proposals Israel has been making for some time.
“We believe that UNRWA needs to pass from the world as it is an organization that advocates politically against Israel and perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem,” said Elad Strohmayer, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
Strohmayer said that Palestinians are the only population that is able to transfer its refugee status down through generations.
The claim, though long advanced by Israel, is not entirely true.
In an internal report from 2015, the State Department noted that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees “recognizes descendants of refugees as refugees for purposes of their operations.” The report, which was recently declassified, said the descendants of Afghan, Bhutanese, Burmese, Somali, and Tibetan refugees are all recognized by the U.N. as refugees themselves.
Of the roughly 700,000 original Palestinian refugees, only a few tens of thousands are still alive, according to estimates.
The push to deny the status to most Palestinians refugees is also gaining traction in Congress.
Last week, Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado, introduced a bill that would limit the United States to assisting only the original refugees. Most savings in U.N. contributions would be directed to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United States’ principal international development agency. But USAID is currently constrained by the Taylor Force Act, which restricts the provision of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian Authority until it ends a policy of providing aid to families of fallen terrorists.
“Instead of resettling Palestinian refugees displaced as a result of the Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1948, UNRWA provides aid to those they define as Palestinian refugees until there is a solution they deem acceptable to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Lamborn’s bill states.
“This policy does not help resettle the refugees from 1948 but instead maintains a refugee population in perpetuity.”
A congressional aide familiar with the legislation said its intent isn’t to gut UNRWA funding, but redirect assistance to descendants through USAID.
“The people that are suffering should still get assistance, but through appropriately defined humanitarian channels and aid programs,” the aide said.
Similarly, Sen. James Lankford, (R-Okla.), has drafted legislation that would redirect U.S. funding away from UNRWA and to other local and international agencies.
The bill, which has not yet officially been introduced, would require the U.S. secretary of state certify by 2020 that the United Nations has ended its recognition of Palestinian descendants as refugees.
“The United Nations should provide assistance to the Palestinians in a way that makes clear that the United Nations does not recognize the vast majority of Palestinians currently registered by UNRWA as refugees deserving refugee status,” reads a draft obtained by Foreign Policy.
Previous U.S. administrations have maintained that the vast majority of Palestinian refugees will ultimately have to be absorbed in a new Palestinian state or naturalized in the countries that have hosted them for generations.
But the fate of the refugee issue was expected to be agreed to as part of a comprehensive peace pact that resulted in the establishment of a Palestinian state.
“It’s very clear that the overarching goal here is to eliminate the Palestinian refugees as an issue by defining them out of existence,” said Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace.
“This isn’t going to make peace any easier. It’s going to make it harder.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/03/trump-palestinians-israel-refugees-unrwaand-allies-seek-end-to-refugee-status-for-millions-of-palestinians-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-unrwa-israel-palestine-peace-plan-jared-kushner-greenb/

While the government of Nepal has framed a policy to tighten the noose around non-governmental organisations, they have welcomed 30 Chinese NGOs to enter the country. These NGOs will penetrate the country’s social sector at the grassroots level. This is the first time such a large number of Chinese NGOs have entered Nepal at one time. Nepal is increasingly open to Chinese influence, a sign that ties between both countries are strengthening, while India’s influence is being reduced. The time has passed for India’s monopoly to remain uninterrupted in Nepal as opportunities to engage with China are being welcomed.

30 Chinese NGOs all set to work in Nepal
REWATI SAPKOTA
Kathmandu, July 30
At a time when the government has framed a policy to tighten the noose around non-governmental organisations, 30 Chinese NGOs have entered Nepal to penetrate the country’s social sector and the grassroots.
The Social Welfare Council Nepal and China NGO Network for International Exchanges, an umbrella body of Chinese NGOs, have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable Chinese NGOs to work in Nepal. The agreement was signed yesterday between SWCN Member Secretary Dilli Prasad Bhatt and CNIE General Secretary Zhu Rui in the presence of Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizen Tham Maya Thapa and Chinese Deputy Minister of External Affairs Wang Yajun.
The agreement has paved the way for the first batch of 30 Chinese NGOs to work in Nepal for a period of three years. Their contract will be extended based on the consent of SWCN and CNIE. Representatives of these 30 Chinese NGOs were also present during yesterday’s signing ceremony. They have agreed to work in partnership with local NGOs to implement their programmes and projects.
The Chinese NGOs are eyeing areas such as livelihood, healthcare, education, skill-based training, community development and disaster management. This is the first time such a large number of Chinese NGOs has entered Nepal at one time. The Chinese assistance so far in Nepal has largely been limited to development of infrastructure projects. But the entry of these NGOs indicates China is keen on making its presence felt in Nepal’s social sector and the grassroots, which, till date, have remained domains of the West and countries such as Japan and India.
The MoU signed between SWCN and CNIE states that Chinese NGOs will be mobilised for ‘the benefit of needy Nepalis and to enhance ties between China and Nepal through people-to-people support programmes’.
“The Chinese NGOs will abide by the law of Nepal in its entirety while carrying out development cooperation in Nepal,” says the MoU, adding, “Chinese NGOs will submit programmes to the SWCN to carry out development activities in partnership with Nepali NGOs and SWCN in line with plans and policies of the government of Nepal.”
The MoU was signed at a time when the government has drafted the National Integrity Policy to limit activities of NGOs and INGOs, as some of them were found ‘trying to break communal harmony and proselytising Nepalis’. There were also concerns that high administrative cost of many NGOs and INGOs was preventing money from reaching the real beneficiaries. The policy clearly states that NGOs and INGOs cannot spend more than specified amount under administrative and consultant headings. They will also be barred from working against Nepal’s interests, culture and communal harmony and conducting activities to promote their religious, social or other agenda, adds the policy.
Around 48,000 NGOs are currently registered in Nepal, of which only 1,600 have been receiving funds from INGOs, as per SWCN. The SWCN has directed INGOs and NGOs to spend 60 per cent of the budget to generate tangible results, while the remaining can be used to cover administrative costs and organise training, meetings and seminars.
https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/30-chinese-ngos-all-set-to-work-in-nepal/

Although the Dalai Lama has offered an apology, the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) still expressed their disappointment over his controversial comment on Nehru, the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC). Dalai Lama called Nehru self-centred.

The Congress said Dalai Lama being a foreigner should shun and refrain from interfering in the internal as well as external affairs of India.

Dalai Lama should abstain from imparting controversial information to students: Arunachal Congress
Dalai Lama should know that a spiritual leader like him is shouldering great expectation: APCC
| DAMIEN LEPCHA | ITANAGAR | August 12, 2018 9:58 pm
disappointment over the recent statement made by Tibetan Spiritual Leader the 14th Dalai Lama in which he called Jawaharlal Nehru, the former Prime Minister of India as “self-centered” and the one responsible for parting India and Pakistan.
“Although Dalai Lama expressed regret over his controversial comment, the APCC is extremely thwarted by it. A Tibetan spiritual leader calling names to an Indian leader who sweated most to keep him and his followers safe from Chinese aggression is simply not acceptable. Today, India is home to lakhs of Tibetan refugees who are living in 37 settlements and 70 scattered communities across different states of India,” APCC vice-president Minkir Lollen said in a statement on Sunday.
“Dalai Lama may have forgotten that India provided a beam of light and hope to Tibetans remaining in Chinese-dominated Tibet and in the neighbouring Chinese provinces politically cut off from the Tibetan heart land. All these happened only because India has great leaders like Gandhi and Nehru who took the responsibility of social burden to shelter thousands of persecuted Tibetans then in 1959,” Lollen added.
Minkir said Dalai Lama should know that a spiritual leader like him is shouldering great expectation, hope and trust of millions on record and the same are watching his contribution towards the mankind.
“In such circumstances, Dalai Lama should abstain from imparting partial and controversial information to the students who are the torch bearer of the nation,” the Congress said.
Further stating that the statement of the spiritual leader could be a politically motivated one and made with an effort to approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi for survival of his continuation in the country, the Congress said Dalai Lama being a foreigner should shun and refrain from interfering in the internal as well as external affairs of India.
https://nenow.in/north-east-news/dalai-lama-should-abstain-from-imparting-controversial-information.html