The Dalai Lama's name is wrongly used again.

[vajratruth]

The following is an excerpt extracted from an article in www.phayul.com (http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?c=4&t=1&id=33000&article=HOW+TIBETANS+ARE+LOSING++THEIR+FOCUS+AND+UNITY) which is about how the Tibetans are losing their focus and unity. Of course, the fact that the Tibetan government has completely failed in its duty to harmonize the Tibetan people is not something new. But what is definitely coming into light is how the administration of the exiled people consistently and wrongly use the Dalai Lama as a stick to beat its own people into submission. Today the greater voice of the Tibetan people calling for independence is being undermined again, and this time, to want freedom is to go against the Dalai Lama. This same tactic was used when the CTA decreed the ban on Dorje Shugden, claiming that anyone who does not abide by the ban is against the Dalai Lama and is an enemy of the Tibetans. By the same token then anyone who seeks Rangzen must also be deemed to have broken their samaya with the Dalai Lama and should no longer attend his teachings and other events.

The Tibetan public who, out of devotion to the Dalai Lama, supported an unholy and unlawful ban should now take notice of how something good such as their loyalty to the spiritual leader was twisted and used to manipulate them. They should now realize that the Dorje Shugden ban was wrong and worshipping an ancient deity does not mean the practitioners are anti the Dalai Lama, anymore than wanting complete freedom means they are anti-Dalai Lama.

A CONFUSED SOCIETY

The impact of downgrading the Tibetan public movement from Rangzen to autonomy has been far more pronounced among the Tibetan exile community whose majority of ordinary members have yet to conscientiously accept the change. Many Rangzen supporters complain that an atmosphere has been consistently created by a dominant section among senior executive functionaries which has been aimed at making people believe that opposing autonomy or standing for Rangzen means opposing the Dalai Lama personally. That explains the prevailing confusion among ordinary Tibetans in their public postures. This drop in public enthusiasm and prevailing demoralisation has of late been showing in annual March 10 processions and during most other public demonstrations. Having seen most of the 40 uprising days from a close distance in New Delhi during as many years, this author was shocked to notice on March 10, 2009, the 50th anniversary of Tibetan uprising, that a substantial section of the Tibetan demonstrators had left the public meeting midway at the Parliament Street in New Delhi to eat Chhole-Bhatoore (a popular north-Indian dish) at footstalls in the adjoining lane.

[DharmaDefender]

What I find interesting about this Vajratruth is that the extract mentions the intent of the senior executive functionaries to create an atmosphere of prevailing confusion. I find that interesting because it means the CTA have a track record of such actions.

What kind of government does that, especially one that claims to be democratic? And what is democracy? A democracy is one where the ruling body are accountable to the masses...so who are the CTA accountable to? Clearly they have a track record of wilful manipulation of their people, so they cannot be accountable to their people. They dont believe they are accountable to their Western donors, nor are they accountable to India and in keeping the peace.

Looks like we cant trust the CTA afterall (ha) to act kindly and must take things into our own hands. So will the CTA, on their own volition, drop the Dorje Shugden ban? Probably not until they are so embarrassed, they have no choice but to do it. But being as thick-skinned as they are...how soon will that be? How much harder will each of us have to work towards bringing down this ban?

[beggar]

This is funny: "a substantial section of the Tibetan demonstrators had left the public meeting midway at the Parliament Street in New Delhi to eat Chhole-Bhatoore at footstalls in the adjoining lane."

More significantly, it signals just how disinterested the Tibetan people themselves are with all the politicking and misdoings of the CTA. What is there to have meetings about anymore when their own government cannot even protect its people?

I have been hearing that the numbers of Tibetans coming into India have dropped significantly. Tibetans are preferring to remain within Tibet, especially the Sangha who are choosing to stay in the monasteries in Tibet / China now - all simply because the conditions under China's government are actually better and provide more opportunities than what the CTA give their own people in exile. So why suffer the journey and the hardship for promises that are never kept? Other exiled Tibetan living in India under the CTA are also now choosing to migrate to everywhere else in the world. Better to start completely afresh, even if it's in a country whose language you know nothing of, than to remain in the dead-ends of Dharamsala and Manju-ka-tilnath. 

The CTA are selling out their own people, breaking communities and families apart with the ban on Dorje Shugden, denying their own people welfare, accusing their own people of being spies and traitors against them (when it's never really the case). With all this, how can the CTA expect their people to want to remain under their governance?

[Dulzie Bear]

What I find totally staggering is how the Tibetan people are just taking in all these lies and contradictions from their own government without challenging them! And what is Sikyong Lobsang Sangay doing about it or is he part of the "dominant section among senior executive functionaries"? I mean no disrespect towards the Tibetan people at all but can't they see what is so obvious? How long do they want to be played like cheap instruments, especially when the issues at stake such as religious and the future of the nation is at stake?

This is to say nothing about the government officials using the Dalai Lama's name and reputation in this manner - like a lance to pierce through the principles of democracy and like a shield to cover up their iniquities. When the Tibetan people allowed the Shugden ban to be imposed and even participated in the ongoing silent marginalization of Shugden worshippers,  they allowed a veil to be pulled over their heads and they lost the wisdom of discernment. And today, they are following the pied-piper-CTA to lead them to their own demise.

[Ensapa]

It is neither surprising or new that the Tibetans have been misusing the Dalai Lama's name for a very long time now. They have been doing it for a very long time (and thus, Nechung does not like the government officials and this is also well documented). The Tibetans have been using His Holiness the Dalai Lama for their own agendas, and i dont think so that will have positive repercussions of any kind. In fact, many misunderstandings that are prevalent in western countries are perpetuated by the tibetans themselves, and usually for their own purposes. it is both funny and sad at the same time to see the Tibetans using the Dalai Lama and them in turn being used by the US like tools....its as if they have forgotten that they have far more dignity than that to be played in that way.

[Gabby Potter]

I would actually believe that the CTAs have been using His Holiness the Dalai Lama to conduct negative activities against Dorje Shugden practitioners. We often asked that why doesn't His Holiness voice out and do something about this? Number one, I think that we do have massive amount of negative karma that needs to be purified so that we can do Dorje Shugden's practise smoothly in the future. Number two, there's no evidence to actually say that His Holiness is not doing anything to help the people. I would say to leave this to His Holiness, let Him do whatever the Dalai Lama thinks is right, after all we are not enlightened. Instead, I think we should continue to spread Dorje Shugden's sacred practise far and wide, so when the time comes, Dorje Shugden will start to benefit even more people.