Now Bloomberg got the attention on this ban

[christine V]

Reported by : Bloomberg
Link : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-02/nyc-protesters-say-dalai-lama-rejects-their-buddhist-sect.html#disqus_thread

NYC Protesters Say Dalai Lama Rejects Their Buddhist Sect
By Allyson Versprille - Nov 2, 2014

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a Manhattan ballroom today where the Dalai Lama spoke to protest his rejection of a minority Buddhist group with roots in the 17th century.

The protesters, outside the Manhattan Center on West 34th Street, were banging drums, chanting and carrying signs saying “Give religious freedom.” On the other side of the street, supporters of the Dalai Lama held up signs that said “Welcome his Holiness, the great 14th Dalai Lama.”

“The Dalai Lama has created this atmosphere of intolerance toward Shugden Buddhists within the Tibetan exile community and the wider Tibetan Buddhist community,” said Nicholas Pitts, a spokesman for the International Shugden Community, which organized the protests and similar events last week in Princeton, New Jersey, and Boston. His group estimated about 500 people had joined the protest in New York.

Members of the International Shugden Community say they’re being harassed and maltreated in Tibetan exile communities because they practice a 400-year-old form of Tibetan Buddhism that’s devoted to a deity known as Dorje Shugden. The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, has discouraged the practice.

Tibet’s government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Administration, said Shugden creates discord within the Tibetan community, though it hasn’t been banned.
March Resolution

In March, the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile passed a resolution declaring that any individuals or organizations worshiping Shugden would not be affiliated with Tibetan religious schools. The resolution also asserted that the group accepted money from the Chinese government, which invaded Tibet in the early 1950s.

The International Shugden Community says that allegation is false, and that its members have been oppressed and shunned in Tibetan exile communities across the world.

The Dalai Lama, who was in Manhattan giving a religious seminar organized by the Danang Foundation, a New York-based Buddhist non-profit, will travel to India and Switzerland next.

To contact the reporter on this story: Allyson Versprille in New York at [email protected]

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Stephen Merelman at [email protected] Pete Young, Christian Baumgaertel

[icy]

Another article reporting on the scene during the Dalai Lama's visit to the United States:

http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2014/11/03/hundreds-of-buddhists-protest-the-dalai-lama-during-us-visit/

[Tenzin K]

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It’s a good news that the ban has catch the attention of the international news agency and hope to have more covering and disclose the unfairness and the violence of the ban to the world. The suffering of the practitioners should be shared to the world. The world need to know how the Tibetan government outcast the practitioners. There is no religious freedom and the religious dictatorship has not serve any good to the people but just suffering from the violent act from the pro Dalai Lama supporters and followers.

Looking forward for more international news reporting on this and may the voice from the world question and fight for the lift of the ban.   

[Kim Hyun Jae]

This is another news to share. Dalai Lama has been accused of #religious persecution.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/dalai-lama-accused-of-religious-persecution/

[vajrastorm]

It is good that Bloomberg, a renowned International News Agency, highlights the news of the peaceful protests by members of the International Shugden Community, calling for the lifting of the ban on Shugden practice. It is good that this time , coverage is given to comments by pro-Shugden protestors and their revelation of the atrocities and violence inflicted by the Tibetan authorities and their supporters on Shugden practitioners in the wake of the ban.

Even when the spotlight is turned on them,the Tibetan authorities can blatantly lie that Shugden practice has not been banned.Why does the CTA continue to blame Shugden for creating "discord with the Tibetan community"? When did the discord within the community begin? When the ban was imposed and discrimination against Shugden practitioners began.

In March, the Tibetan Parliament passed a resolution "declaring that any individual or organization, worshipping Shugden would not be affiliated with Tibetan religious schools"(and to think that the Bon religion has been accepted by the Dalai Lama as one of the Tibetan schools).   Isn't this a clear case of ostracism and deliberate creation of schism?

Another blatantly false accusation is that of the Tibetan parliament asserting that the Shugden practitioners "accepted money from the Chinese government which invaded Tibet in the early 1950s". How wrong it is to pull wool over the eyes of Tibetans who are simple folk and believe blindly what they are told, by telling them these lies.

[Dolce Vita]

Thank you to the protest group for working tirelessly to create awareness of this ban among the Western media. Shugdenpas are strongly discriminated in Tibetan community, no one within the Tibetan community can help them. Remember, just like the Chinese Communist government, Tibetans are ruled under one party. There is no opposition in the parliament to go against the government should the government acts unfairly.

Dalai Lama governments receive a lot of financial support from the West, this is how they fund themselves. The sponsors need to know what is really happening to put pressure on Tibetan government (actually, they are not even a government, they are only an administrator, CTA). Truth will remain truth, Dalai Lama and his government will not be able to hold this lie any longer.

[Manjushri]

Let's hope Bloomberg does more research on this... or perhaps... Ill be emailing to them what this whole ban is about. Think that's a better idea.

Glad that international media has picked this up because it is time the world knew about the horrid ban and its inhibition of religious freedom to Tibetan Buddhist practitioners.

[christine V]

@Manjushri, i think we should directly email to Bloomberg. LOL. Else they would once again perverted by the CTA

[kris]

It is indeed great news that Bloomberg picked up this news. It is a matter of time before more and more media will be picking up this undemocratic and unnecessary ban imposed by HH Dalai Lama, and the illegal moves by CTA which violates basic human rights.

With more and more news portal and news agency picking up the news, people who donate to CTA for the so-called "Tibetan Cause" will be affected. People will start questioning, why does CTA spend financial resources in suppressing a particular Protector Practice and why not use the money to unite the people?!?

[yontenjamyang]

I am sure the administrators of Ds.com with contact the reporter and/or the editor of this story to give them a full view of the issue of the ban and provide the vast amount of information to support the argument of the existence of a ban and the huge amount suffering resulting from this ban.
Looks like the protest is gain some desired results that is to gain the attention of the international press and via that the truth to surface on what the Dalai Lama and the CTA has committed; nothing less than Buddhist apartheid.

[grandmapele]

A wrong act is now being made known to more people in the financial world where the people are more affluent and educated. CTA will be CTA and lie through their teeth. But, the evidence will speak for themselves.

[Tenzin Malgyur]

This is great. As we all know, Bloomberg is THE global business and financial information and news leader  and the company is known for delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and most importantly - accurately to more than 320,000 subscribers globally. These subscribers includes many educated individuals and the movers and shakers of many industries. It is time the world start to question the few power hungry so called leaders of the Tibetan.

[maricisun]

This is another great news. To know that Bloomberg is aware of this ban means more financial and top people is aware of Dorje Shugden. May the truth prevail to all from this channel.

[kelly]

Is good news to hear that the Internatianal media know about this ban because the local Tibethan will not be able to help themselves with ban they are the minority mast of the people is the CTA supporters, this ban is so unfair to the DSL practitioner we must lift the ban and help to release the suffering of these Tibethan DS practitioners.

[rossoneri]

It is a good sign for Shugden's practitioners around the world as a result of International Shugden Community which organises demonstration peacefully around the world basically whenever the Dalai Lama goes in order to capture the attention of the media and the world on how the CTA and Dalai Lama discriminate Shudgen practitioners and ban this holy practice which have been practicing by all the holy masters for almost 360 years.

And also due to this manner families, friends, Guru and disciples relationship had ended and not only that many had suffered their lives and lost their loves one as well. So with these peaceful act, we hope will capture the attention worldwide about how unfair and injustice behaviour which the Tibatan Government in exile have treated Shugden's community which what they are done is merely practice and follow the linage which was past down for generations. With no harm and not as Dalai Lama said it will shorten his life and create a disharmony among the Tibetan. All this accusations are nothing but a LIE.