Dalai Lama's Visit to Birmingham: October 24-27, 2014

[icy]

Birmingham has a kindred connection to other cultures around the globe who continue to fight for basic human rights and alleviate human suffering. 

What will it mean for the City of Birmingham, the City of Ethics and Science when International Shugden Community turns up at Birmingham to protest religious discrimination by the Dalai Lama during his visit this fall?   Won't this affect his image as world renowned man of peace?  The International Shugden Community will appear to protest and remind the Dalai Lama for religious freedom wherever he goes throughout the world.  Isn't the Dalai tired of these protests?   

This religious prosecution will only bring attention to Dorje Shugden and putting Dorje Shugden on the world pedestal as the most famous Tibetan Buddhist Deity ever in history to receive extensive publicity.  It will position Dorje Shugden to spread and flourish around the globe leading inevitably to a Dorje Shugden renaissance.  But under this circumstance, it is detrimental to the reputation and image of the Dalai Lama.   Shouldn't it be time now for the Dalai Lama to declare that the ban on Dorje Shugden is over?

By Michael Huebner/AL.com
 
The 14th Dalai Lama’s first visit to Birmingham is still seven months away, but conversations have already begun concerning what it will mean for the City of Birmingham, ethics and science.

On Friday, April 4, the city will join UAB and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a dialogue on the history of civil rights in Birmingham, and how it relates to human rights efforts around the world. The guest speaker will be Ven. Tenzin Priyadarshi, who will lecture on his work as the founding director of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, a collaborative, nonpartisan think tank devoted to inquiry, dialogue and education.

The center has six Nobel Laureates as founding members. Its programs, which range from science and technology to international relations, currently run in eight countries.

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader who fled his homeland for India in 1959 during the Tibetan uprising, is scheduled to visit Birmingham from Oct. 24-27. From Dharamsala, India, he has led the Tibetan government in exile and, at age 78, continues to travel the world with his message of compassion as the source of a happy life. He has been recognized for his contributions to peace, non-violence, human rights and religious understanding, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and the United States Congressional Gold Medal in 2007. He was recently named by Fortune Magazine as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.”

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/03/speaking_of_the_dalai_lama_bud.html?

[kris]

I sincerely hope that International Shugden Community (ISC) will plan a peaceful demonstration during HH Dalai Lama's Birmingham visit, and since there are still a few months to the visit, I hope ISC can plan a good one Or even arrange some interview with TV/radio stations before the event to create even more awareness about the ban imposed by CTA.

There is just too much suffering to the Dorje Shugden monks and practitioners due to this unnecessary yet cruel ban by CTA. This must stop now!!

[Rihanna]

Oh no! What else is the Dalai Lama gonna be talking about AGAIN?? Non-violence? Peace, Compassion??? According to the Dalai Lama’s web page, he frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness (isn't freedom to choose one's spiritual practice basic human value and rights??), the fostering of inter-religious harmony (even the Buddhist are divided between the practitioners and the anti so what are we even talking about inter-religious harmony) and the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion (what is there to focus on if the ban continues because the Tibetans are so disintegrated as it is due to the ban).

The Dalai Lama often stresses that one of the key points of his doctrine is a concept of non-violence, not only toward human beings, but all living creatures. Non-violence??? Read this!

http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/features/tibetan-leadership-organizes-violence/


So are the people of Birmingham gonna be hearing the same tune again but behind closed doors of CTA, they plot of how else more to suppress and discriminate Dorje Shugden practitioners using funds raised from such talks by the Dalai Lama? Little do these people know, they are contributing towards the ban.

Please let the audience hear something more refreshing: The Truth; that you will walk the talk and lift the ban!

[dondrup]

The International Shugden Community (ISC) will not rest on its laurels after its recent success in USA protesting against His Holiness Dalai Lama (HHDL).

If HHDL does not lift the ban on Dorje Shugden soon, His reputation will be tarnished severely as more and more people are hearing about the ban through the extensive media coverage recently.

How long more is His Holiness going to ban Dorje Shugden? The heat is so intense now that very soon it will turn into fire. HHDL is the compassionate emanation of Chenrezig and He has done a great deal to bring about the renaissance of Dorje Shugden. May the ban on Dorje Shugden be lifted soon. May there be peace and harmony. May the Dorje Shugden lineage flourish forever more.