Thanks to this website, that promotes Dorje Shugden - without fear or favor - through its extensive coverage of Lamas, Monasteries, Lineages , Histories, for presenting yet another tribute to a great Master.
Yes, VL, the Guru Tree does have Dorje Shugden among the Protectors! It is a reflection of the Gaden Trisur's unwavering devotion to Dorje Shugden that Dagom Rinpoche's thangka of the Guru Tree, with Dorje Shugden in it, should be presented in his new website.
The Gaden Trisur, this great and humble Master, has shown us by example, how we can separate politics and religion in our practice. With his unwavering devotion to his Root Guru from whom he had received the Shugden practice and with his great respect for the Dalai Lama, he never came out in open defiance to announce his practice of Shugden whilst he held office. It was after he stepped down as Gaden Tripa that he quietly and firmly made this known to all.
In an interview during his visit to Singapore in 2003 as Gaden Tripa, he described the uncommon feature of the Gelugpa Lineage as follows:
"Outwardly, the Gelugpa monk adopts a subdued and gentle form of the Shravaka practitioners who live according to the Vinaya rules of the Sutra vehicle, whilst inwardly possessing the full realization of the Generation and Completion stages of the Tantra vehicles. The Gelugpa Tradition perceives the Sutra and Tantra vehicles as complementary and not contradictory"
The Gaden Trisur embodies these qualities of a Gelugpa master, just as Lama Tsongkapa and his immediate disciples did and just as many great Gelug Masters of today do too. Though I must say that in this degenerate age, some great Masters, out of great compassion for all, may have had to discard the outward appearance of a monk holding the strict Vinaya rules and code.
It stands to reason too that, as Protector of the Geug Lineage, Dorje Shugden is in monks' robes.
