Westerners and "Buddhist outsiders" keep aside from the Dorje Shugden "affair".
Why? I heard that most of them consider it an internal affair and do not get involved.
Well.... we have seen before large interest from "outsiders" into other communities internal affairs!
No, I think that they don't get involved because they just cannot understand the whole thing.
Sure enough, from the "ban side", it is impossible to understand, it is filled with contradictions, it lacks common sense, and it lacks logic too... And so they don't get involved, because they can't forge a clear opinion.
But, they will understand the ostracism, the apartheid, even if they don't understand the causes.
And, the fact is that the few times that this affair was talked about in the foreign press, it was because of the segregation, the violence and the "outcasting" that the ban generated.