CTA Constitution ....Ya Right?

[shugdenpromoter]

I found CTA Constitution on their website (http://tibet.net/about-cta/constitution/). Please see below.

Constitution

Charter of the Tibetans in Exile
The Charter of the Tibetans in Exile is the supreme law governing the functions of the CTA. It was drafted by the Constitution Redrafting Committee and referred to the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile for approval. The parliament, in turn, adopted the Charter on 14 June 1991.
 
Based on the spirit of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter guarantees to all Tibetans equality before the law and enjoyment of rights and freedom without discrimination on the basis of sex, religion, race, language and social origin. It provides for a clear separation of power among the three organs of the administration: judiciary, legislature and executive.
 
Before the Charter came into being, the Central Tibetan Administration functioned roughly along the lines of the draft democratic constitution for future Tibet, promulgated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 10 March 1963.
 
Over the years, the charter was amended on a regular basis. This year, after the devolvement of political leadership by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Charter was yet again amended accordingly to distribute the powers within the three bodies 1.e Executive, Legislative and Judiciary.

I have lost count on how many times CTA has contradicted themselves.  If they, were in America, they would have gone on trial for violating human rights.

[tsangpakarpo]

As usual...They have been contradicting themselves for years now...For a matter of fact, they are not even a proper government. Their name is clear - CENTRAL TIBETAN ADMINISTRATION.

Perhaps we can send a letter with the constitution attached to the Kalon Tripa, Dr Lobsang Sangye and kindly 'advice' them to amend their constitution or amend their attitude towards Dorje Shugden practitioners! Perhaps the Parliament IN-EXILE can debate on it and make changes? Will they? I DOUBT SO!

So many times we have read about how Dorje Shugden practitioners are ill treated. They are ripped off their constitutional rights! No school, no medical benefits, basically no rights at all! They are all forced to a corner not knowing how to survive.

Is this equality? Is this freedom without discrimination of religion?

Such a baseless constitution!

[Big Uncle]

This is contradictory and laughable. But I guess they probably just wrote it up to appear as a model of democracy but the reality is far from it. Therefore, as long ast the CTA don't enforce what is enshrined in its own constitution, its own governing is weak and anybody could just point out the gross mismanagement of CTA.

This is not just a play of words as this has huge implications for CTA and for the Tibetan independence. As long as the ban is in place, the people remain divided and no constitution is upheld, why do we need CTA? Why do millions of dollars of donations meant to sustain a Tibetan governing body not doing its job? One day, someone is going to pull the plug on the funding and that's it!

[vajratruth]

Usually the Constitution of a country is the foundation of its laws and provides for the country's code of ethics. It spells out the country's intent towards it own people. It is the rock on which the people's rights are set out and defended.

In the case if the Tibetan CTA, the Constitution reflects how inept the CTA is, in looking after it's own people. It is an embarrassment for them to declare to the whole world their guarantee of equal rights to all Tibetans and still enforce the ban. For clarity the ban is imposed on a religious practice which is hundreds of years old and embraced by a large population of Tibetans.

That the Dorje Shugden ban still exists flies in the face of the CTA's guarantee of equality to all Tibetans, and shows the CYTA members out to be insincere and morally corrupt. The present CTA has no business running even an elementary school of they cannot get the concept of fairness right.

What a shame!

[Galen]

Haha.... it is really laughing matter to the world when the CTA contradicts themselves all these years with the Dalai Lama being the head of state. But at that time who can say a word? But now that Dr. Lobsang Sangey is the Prime Minister, he has the opportunity to follow this section of the constitution which guarantees the freedom of all aspects to it's people.

The least Dr. Lobsang Sangey has done is the remove all materials from the CTA website with regards to the ban on Dorje Shugden. Let's wait a little longer for him to implement more changes. After all, it is only one year since he took over.

All of us can help by continuing sending out letters and distributing brochures and materials to the world. let us all contribute to the lifting of the ban sooner!

[kris]

Some countries will honour their constitution, while some others just don't. It happened everywhere. I am sure there are a lot of the third world countries where constitution is just for a show and the people are either too uneducated or too afraid to voice out and protest.

Having said that, if the people of Tibet cannot voice out and protest for whatever reason, then we should give them a hand. Personally I want to see the ban of Dorje Shugden to be lifted NOW, so that the old monks do not need to suffer anymore! And banning of Dorje Shugden is a direct contradiction to their constitution, and we should inform the world about their constitution and get them to comply!!

[triesa]

Thank you Shugdenpromotor for highlighting this constitution to all of us.

It makes CTA look so ineffective, stupid, lame, and basically mal-function. Why put up such a constitution when the administration cannot implement it. Well, now the Dalai Lama is off the picture in CTA as political head, I do hope Dr Lobsang Sangay, the present Kolon Tripa can DO SOMETHING about the Dorje Shugden ban.

I beg Dr Lobsang Sangay to work towards lifting this inequality among the Tibetans, there is really no need for such a religious ban to exist anymore, he has all the power to do it for the sake of all the Tibetans.

Or are we expecting too much from a supposedly smart Harvard graduate?

[Ensapa]

the Dalai Lama's website alone is filled with contradictions, especially with regards to the Dorje Shugden ban. I dont know if he wants to subconciously tell people that Dorje Shugden is good, or to make the people actually read what he says instead of taking things only on the face value, but whatever it is the articles only make people question more instead of being definitive...

The CTA is very well known for being oblivious to their own faults while creating drama out of the faults of others. For example is they exaggerated the cultural revolution, claiming that the Chinese is trying to destroy Buddhism in Tibet but in fact it is flourishing there and there are footages of monks having debate sessions in the monasteries in tibet...how can the CTA explain this? And not to mention the large Buddha statues everywhere.

CTA is already famous for saying things things that dont mean anything or that dont make sense, like how Dorje Shugden is employing Chinese ghosts to do work, or how Dorje Shugden practitioners are Chinese spies. When a government needs to resort to making such statements to garner support, it is pretty obvious that they are not very firm in what they are doing or believe in.

This does not include the whitewashed history of Tibet that the CTA promotes, but unfortunately for them the Chinese has a version that is not altered and this will be the source of great embarrassment for CTA. There is internet everywhere now and the CTA can no longer pretend that certain things in their history never happened before, because eventually everybody will know.

[samayakeeper]

What constitution of CTA? What parliament of CTA? My toe!

Tibetans being touted as the current foremost exponentially practitioners of Vajrayana Buddhism are being shamed by those nincompoops in CTA. What governing body is CTA talking about? If they could govern they would not be in exile and living in another mountainous region without an airport. Sheesh!

[pgdharma]

What a baseless constitution!The CTA is forever contradicting themselves.  When did  Dorje Shugden practitioners have the enjoyment and freedom without discrimination of their practice? Having a constitution like this but not implementing it is a shame.

Will the present Kalon Tripa, Dr. Lobsang Sangay do something to implement what is in the constitution so that Dorje Shugden practitioners can have religious freedom? Let us hope that he has the courage to make the change.