Press Release
February 6, 2008
Dorje Shugden Devotees' Charitable & Religious Society
Today we would like to request the attention of all unbiased people in this world, and particularly the attention of the people and the government of India, to whose kindness we are deeply indebted.
Unfortunately, we have no other choice than to express the following heartfelt words of truth, as His Holiness the Dalai Lama is most unbelievably causing us immeasurable grieve through forcefully impeding our religious faith, taking away our human rights, and inciting repression against our minority.
Since many years now, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his government have not let us, the devotees of deity Dorje Shugden, allowed to live in freedom and peace, by spreading manifold unjustified allegations against us, and using his power to bully our people.
On the 9th of January of this year for example, His Holiness the Dalai Lama declared: "You (Dorje Shugden devotees) go back to China, China will take care of you!" To hear such words from the mouth of His Holiness Dalai Lama, is deeply heartbreaking for all of our people, because these words spoken from a standing of might and power express a complete disregard for our rights and our freedom (1), they denote an obvious contempt against us (2), they implicate a heavy accusation for which there is no base at all (3) and they are thus deceptive for the world (4). Besides, we feel such words also disregard the government of India (5).
So His Holiness, far from seeing us with compassion and loving kindness, seems not to have even any worldly righteous regard towards us.
As Tibetans we know how Tibetans go for their aims, we know the 'secret' mischievous and deceptive methods of the Dalai Lama's political administration to exercise internal suppression, to instigate the public to harass the fellow citizens. We have been pushed to the point where we see no choice left but to disclose this embarrassing bearing, because many people, who do not know, might see His Holiness the Dalai Lama like a god whose words are exclusively righteous and true. However, to put the reality in short, most of his policies seem to be a mixture of religion and politics, a mixture of peace and conflict, a mixture of Tibetan independence and Tibetan autonomy, a mixture of harmonizing and disintegrating, a mixture of religious rules and political rules - and his very person a mixture of religious leader and political leader, entangled in a mixture of virtuous and non-virtuous proceedings, in a mixture of truth and false - and every one of these points has a proof.
Our very actual emergency situation arose following a new activity of the exile government,
put in action on the 9th of January 2008, aimed at implementing a final and complete discrimination of the minority group of those faithful to the Dharma, by forcefully banning their worship. An order was issued to completely cut all human relationships with anyone still worshipping the Buddhist deity Dorje Shugden, on every level, be it religious, political, economic, educational, sharing food and drink, marrying and even conversing in everyday life. As a result of this order, within the Tibetan community, within the Buddhist communities in the monasteries, among the common people, between parents and children, between teachers and students, between friends, between couples, relatives and schoolmates, such a severe segregation is evolving, promoting disharmony, grudges and fights.
Due to such terrifying dangers and tensions rising in our communities, we appeal for help and protection from all those who cherish peace, harmony, freedom and truth. In the name of all adherents of Dorje Shugden, this appeal is submitted by the office of Dorje Shugden Devotee's Charitable & Religious Society in Delhi, by joining our palms from the depth of hearts.
