CTA PR Machine

[DharmaDefender]

A couple of days back, I was reading some articles about the Tibetan struggle and how the CTA are working towards Tibet autonomy (or is it independence? I can never keep up with their changing mind).

Anyway, it struck a chord - if the Dalai Lama had never banned Dorje Shugden, all wouldve been hunky dory in the Tibetan communities. No one wouldve thought otherwise about the Dalai Lama or the CTA, and theyd have still enjoyed outright support for all of their directives.

In fact, in banning Dorje Shugden and upholding the ban, they shot themselves in the foot by turning some Tibetans and even more people abroad against them. They created even more problems for themselves by banning Dorje Shugden - now they have to justify why they spend money on upholding the ban, why they continue to be hypocritical about human rights, why they continue to be hypocritical about their Dharma practice. Now they spend more time justifying and defending themselves, and they have to direct already-scarce resources in this direction...their spreading themselves way too thinly.

Even the thickest person can see that...so why did they ban him? Why do they continue to uphold the ban? Why not just say look mate, sorry about that, it was a daft mistake, and close the chapter on that?

Why hang on to ego and continue to suffer in this way, and opposed to just suffering the momentary embarrassment of saying your wrong (but then benefiting from greater support in the long term)?

Am I missing something???

[Ensapa]

A couple of days back, I was reading some articles about the Tibetan struggle and how the CTA are working towards Tibet autonomy (or is it independence? I can never keep up with their changing mind).

Anyway, it struck a chord - if the Dalai Lama had never banned Dorje Shugden, all wouldve been hunky dory in the Tibetan communities. No one wouldve thought otherwise about the Dalai Lama or the CTA, and theyd have still enjoyed outright support for all of their directives.

In fact, in banning Dorje Shugden and upholding the ban, they shot themselves in the foot by turning some Tibetans and even more people abroad against them. They created even more problems for themselves by banning Dorje Shugden - now they have to justify why they spend money on upholding the ban, why they continue to be hypocritical about human rights, why they continue to be hypocritical about their Dharma practice. Now they spend more time justifying and defending themselves, and they have to direct already-scarce resources in this direction...their spreading themselves way too thinly.

Even the thickest person can see that...so why did they ban him? Why do they continue to uphold the ban? Why not just say look mate, sorry about that, it was a daft mistake, and close the chapter on that?

Why hang on to ego and continue to suffer in this way, and opposed to just suffering the momentary embarrassment of saying your wrong (but then benefiting from greater support in the long term)?

Am I missing something???

The CTA has spent a lot of money indeed for the ban of Dorje Shugden. Besides paying off (or threatening) prominent Buddhist scholars such as Bob Thurman and George Dreyfus to write defamatory articles against Dorje Shugden based on lies and unverifiable facts, they probably have also employed a cyber army that will shoot down or attack people who write about Dorje Shugden in public forums, and probably lobbied to get the forums to ban the discussion of Dorje Shugden as well. Because, it cannot be that there is always someone to speak up against Dorje Shugden  and people who talk about him (with biased, twisted facts and lots of lies, no less) at almost every place that allows its discussion, and the method that is used is always the same. It was as if these people read the exact same material and has undergone the same training, and is professionally equipped to write in this way in the forums. The only logical conclusion is that either these people truly believe in what they write out of their own free will, and found the materials themselves after a trip to Dharamsala, or someone paid them and supplied the materials to them to write.

CTA is facing a lot of issues at the moment and they have to fend off criticisms and attacks from many sides, although their main concern is more or less China and making enemies out of Dorje Shugden practitioners is a very stupid move on their side indeed. What is interesting is, some parties have "predicted" that China will use Dorje Shugden against CTA, but China has not done anything to that effect so far. What does this say and prove? It proves that CTA is either not getting accurate information about China, or that their hatred and paranoia about China has gone off the bat and they're delusional. If CTA keeps up about the ban and all their anti China propaganda, their credibility will be ruined, and they will lose whatever little inji supporters that they have garnered through their lies.