Ha. Very interesting, if true... heh.
I heard today of recent happenings within all of the Gelug monasteries in Mundgod and Sera in Bylakuppe. Basically in order for Buddhas teaching to remain certain things must be observed, namely Sojong (regular gathering and confession), yarne (summer retreat), etc. The Loseling abbot asked the Gomang abbot if he was observing the Sojong and he said no, because in order to do that monks within 50 miles (whatever the exact rule is) must attend. Because now Shar Ganden is separate they can't attend, so doing Sojong would be perfunctory. ...
But this is something I do not understand.
Uposatha, or Sojong, must absolutely be observed. All monks
within the boundary must attend, or if sick must formally excuse themselves from attending. The boundary is
as marked, and can vary. But all those monks who dwell within the boundary, must congregate to practice the Uposatha and Pratimoksha recitation in unison. If this is not done, because some group of monks refuse to have Uposatha with some other group of monks dwelling within the same boundary, it is a case of Sanghabheda, a Split of Sangha.
Is this what is happening? Namely, some monks refusing to have Uposatha with DS-monks? And if so, why not merely set the monastic boundaries in a manner that there is no problem? If a DS-monastery has it's own boundaries, and a non-DS-monastery their own, there cannot be Sanghabheda, because there are then two different Sanghas who are then to have separate Uposathas. (Sanghabheda can happen only within a singular boundary.) Or do the boundaries mysteriously overlap, or what?
Strange.
(Hmmm. There might be different rules concerning the boundary in Sarvastivada and Theravada traditions, but still... dunno.)