You know, the Dalai Lama never has impressed me much as a logician. Saying that he knows Buddha's teachings therefore he must be right is inconstant of course with Buddha's last teaching where he told people to examine his teachings for themselves.
Of course, it would be good if the world could understand that the Dalai Lama is lying; the problem is that the propaganda is so strong from the west in favor of the Dalai Lama. He is supposed to have been supporting democracy, which is obviously something he has not the first inkling about. I think maybe he is a Buddha teaching in like reverse psychology (I'm serious) because he is making such an obvious point that the time of the Dalai Lamas is really past; that people in this world need to embrace democracy and human rights because if they listen to the Dalai Lama, which is and has been, at least since the 5th recognition, a very political affair, it will be a disaster for all of Tibet and most of Buddhism.
The Dalai Lama seems a master of pointing out the problems of not separating church and state by demonstrating the very worst parts of the mixing of religion and politics; obviously China chose a Karmapa, and the Dalai Lama, who is Gelugpa, backed that, so now Tibet is stuck with the official recognition from China being this guy the Dalai Lama picked. The Dalai Lama divided the Gelugpas with the Shugden ban and made a mess of a lot of people's lives, just to demonstrate, I think that in Buddhism we don't want to make the same mistakes that Europe or Tibet made when ruled by dictators; if the dictator is good, fine, but then what if the next dictator is not good? Obviously this is a problem since either the politicians of China or Tibet would decide the Dalai Lama's successor.
I hope this ban will come down soon; I am happy that someone told him to stop lying and I am glad that he showed his colors, because if he is a Buddha he is a Buddha demonstrating by example what not to do.
