Monks of Four Tradiitons and Bon to Meet Annually for Religious Harmony

[icy]

Don't you people find CTA so absurd in including the Bon into the fold and excluding the Shugdenpas in their annual general discussion to foster religious harmony?  CTA is making themselves so ridiculous.  What on earth has happened to CTA?


Phayul[Friday, January 16, 2015 19:05]
By Phuntsok Yangchen

DHARAMSHALA, January 16: The Department of Religion and Culture of the Tibetan government in exile (known officially as the Central Tibetan Administration) will host an annual general discussion on religion titled “Discussion amongst the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon”.

The discussion will be held from March 1-3, 2015 at the Gyuto Tantric monastery at Sidhbari, Dharamshala.

According to the official website of the Tibetan government in exile, the annual discussion aims to foster the preservation and progression of Tibetan Buddhism, and to affirm harmonious relations between the different schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon religion.

The discussion invites one participant each from the monasteries with 50-100 monks/nuns, two participants from the monasteries with 101-500 monks/nuns, three from those with 501-1000 and four from the monasteries with more than 1000 monk/nuns.

The Department of Religion and Culture works at reviving, preserving, and promotion of Tibetan religious and cultural heritages that is being led to the verge of extinction in Tibet. It also supervises 262 monasteries and nunneries in India, Nepal, and Bhutan and oversees approximately 39,479 monks or clergies living in these institutions.


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[kris]

@icy, I agree with you that I this is such a hypocrite of CTA. "affirm harmonious relationship"? Are you kidding me CTA? Are you for real? You are the one who stirred up so much schism and hatred among your own people by imposing the unnecessary ban on Dorje Shugden practitioners. And now you want to have harmony? Why not just lift the ban and you will get peace and harmony IMMEDIATELY??

[icy]

Picture of the Four Tibetan Buddhist Schools and the Bon Tradition

Left of His Holiness Dalai Lama is Sakya Trizen Rinpoche, head of the Sakya school. To his left is Trulshig Rinpoche, the head of the Nyingma school, who passed recently.
Right of His Holiness Dalai Lama is the representative of the Bon school. To his right is His Holiness Karmapa.
Behind HHDL is Jangtse Choeje Rinpoche, the 2nd highest Gelugpa Lama, and Ling Rinpoche, and Kundeling Rinpoche.

Picture taken in 2012

[Clifford.Khong]

This is very hypocritical.

"...the annual discussion aims to foster the preservation and progression of Tibetan Buddhism, and to affirm harmonious relations between the different schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon religion."

If the aim is to truly to affirm harmony then shouldn't they be including Shugdenpas as to how to resolve the issue between Shugden practitioners and anti-ds practitioners?

Everyone in that meeting are only there to play the political game, who is liked the most, who is following the leader, who is politically correct...why not discuss the issue at hand which is to lift the ridiculous ban on Dorje Shugden Practice, why continue to ostracize ds practitioners and at the same time sit high up all mighty and talk about harmony amongst each other. It doesn't follow what they are talking about.

[Dondrup Shugden]

Nice photo to show the hypocrisy and discrimination of HH Dalai Lama against Dorje Shugden lineage, when even the Bon traditions is included.

How sad to reject your own and pretend acceptance of others which are unrelated.