Dalai Lama welcomes Tibetan Muslims to join CTA

[Matibhadra]

The seventh Dalai Lama was quite different though, a pure spiritual practitioner.

And possibly the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th as well, which might explain their premature deaths.

[Blueupali]

That's a good point, though I'm still not clear why we are bothering to look for successor since the time of the 5th.  Check the lower realms....

You're right, the 'Great 5th' started a war and seized political power supported by the Mongols. He built the Potala Palace which was the start of him being regarded as an emanation of Avalokiteshvara and he mixed spiritual traditions, contrary to the first Dalai Lama, Gendundrub, who said of Je Tsongkhapa "I shall seek no refuge other than you".

As it says in the False Dalai Lama:

The Fifth Dalai Lama always showed two faces. One was that of a Nyingmapa and the other was that of a Gelugpa. In fact, he did not follow either tradition, but remained between them without ever finding a pure spiritual path. In this he was like the present Dalai Lama, the Fourteenth, who also shows two faces and likewise has never found a pure spiritual path.

The seventh Dalai Lama was quite different though, a pure spiritual practitioner.

Well, maybe they found an emanation of Dorje Shugden to recognize as the Dalai Lama:), the 5th one have karmic obstacles to human rebirth....

[Rihanna]

I echo everyone's view here. Also, during the grand reception, the students also performed a cultural performance and a pledge by the students of the Tibetan public school to uphold the ethics espoused by His Holiness the Dalai Lama – the promotion of human values and religious harmony. For us the Shugdenpas, this is baffling....

His Holiness also spoke on the importance of modern education but added that, only education is not enough for a healthy and happy life. He said love, compassion and inner happiness are essential to lead a peaceful and happy life. I guess everyone's definition of that is different, huh?

[christine V]

This is indeed sad to look at the So call Buddhist Leader have an act that "kind" to other religion but cruel to eliminate own Dharma brother and sister just because they believed and practiced in Dorje Shugden.
Where is the justice?! It is compassion? Look at how the CTA treat the monks who practices Dorje Shugden. It is Humane?
Why be a two faces? How non Buddhist can think about Buddhism ?

[thor]

Why is everyone still so surprised about how inconsistent the Dalai Lama and for that matter, the CTA is? Many have concluded that the ban against Shugden was a political strategy to appear non-sectarian, aimed at garnering the support of the other non-Gelug sects of Buddhism by sacrificing the lineage of the Gelugpas. We keep pointing out that Dorje Shugden is not a demon - pointless when the Dalai Lama knows this all too well. Perhaps we should be focused on pointing out how the Dalai Lama then and the CTA now are running roughshod over the rights of their own people in the spirit of political expedience.

Vajratruth highlights how Muslims are welcome in the Tibetan communities while Buddhist Dorje Shugden practitioners are not. I too wish to highlight how the Dalai Lama publicly speaks against Buddhist violence towards the Muslim community in Myanmar while encouraging buddhist practitioners back home in Tibet to unleash such violence towards the Shugden community. The evidence speaks for itself. Sure the CTA must have a conscience or at least be embarrassed enough to do something about this blatant inconsistency?

Dalai Lama to Burmese monks : Enough anti- Rohingya violence

The Tibetan spiritual leader recalls the teachings of the Buddha and appeals to the Burmese monks : no more attacks and violence against "your Muslim brothers and sisters ." Aung San Suu Kyi calls for amendments to the Constitution to solve the ethnic problem . In the sixth anniversary of the Saffron Revolution monks call on authorities to apologize .

Yangon ( AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Dalai Lama has appealed to Burmese Buddhist Monks asking them to act according to the principles of the Buddha, avoiding violence or targeted attacks against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. "When resentment or anger towards your Muslim brothers and sisters emerge - said the Tibetan spiritual leader , during an annual peace conference held recently in Prague, Czech Republic - please , remember [ the principles ] of the Buddhist faith . " He added, "to be sure" that in following the teachings of the Enlightened One, the Burmese monks will "protect their Muslim brothers and sisters who are increasingly victims."

The Burmese Buddhist monks became involved in a campaign against the Muslims, with protests and, in some cases, direct attacks against the community or individual groups. In particular, the anti- Rohingya violence in the western state of Rakhine erupted in June 2012 caused at least 200 deaths - especially among the Muslim minority - and more than 140 thousand displaced people.

In recent days, the Burmese religious marked the sixth anniversary of the "Saffron Revolution" , which flared up between August and September of 2007 and was violently repressed by the junta , with more than 30 deaths and hundreds of monks arrested . For years, religious people rejected offers by the military and would not provide their functions and celebrations in protest against the brutal repression.  Leaders of the Burmese Buddhist movement confirm that the ban will not be lifted "as long as there will be no official apology" from the authorities. Among the aims of this sixth anniversary of the massacre, the promotion "of nationality and religion , peace and national reconciliation and a significant progress on the democratic path of Myanmar."

Meanwhile, the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi , on her recent European tour, touched on the issue of violence against minorities in Myanmar. The "Lady " points the finger at the current Constitution - written by the military dictatorship and ratified in a farce referendum in 2008, an emergency text due to Cyclone Nargis - emphasizing that it must be "modified" to eradicate the roots of conflicts. " The ethnic problem - said the parliamentary leader of the National League for Democracy ( NLD) - will not be solved with this Constitution, which does not meet the aspirations of the ethnic nationalities ." She adds that minorities must be guaranteed " safety first ", because " they feel that they do not have equal access to justice".

In the last two years, violence between Buddhists and Muslims have raised tensions between the different ethnic groups and religious denominations that define Myanmar, especially in the western state of Rakhine where clashes have broken out between native Arakanese and Rohingya Muslims. The rape and murder of a young Buddhist woman sparked a spiral of terror, which caused hundreds of deaths and houses destroyed, and displaced at least 160,000 people, many of whom have sought refuge outside Myanmar, trying to escape attacks by the 969 Movement, a Buddhist extremist organisation. According to United Nations estimates, there are at least 800,000 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. For the Myanmar government they are illegal immigrants, which is why they are victims of abuse and persecution.