Rome, Italy: Peaceful Demonstration Coverage
Once again, Tibetan Shugden practitioners and members of the International Shugden Community (ISC), gathered in force for a peaceful demonstration in Rome, Italy, on the occasion of the 14th World Smmit of Nobel Peace Laureates. The Dalai Lama is attending the three-day event and more than 300 Shugden Buddhists from all around the world congregated…
Pope Francis snubs the Dalai Lama – 2014
By: Kay Beswick The popularity of the Dalai Lama among world leaders is dropping. People would like to say immediately that everyone is afraid of China. Perhaps they should rephrase by saying many nations respect the sentiments of China. The Dalai Lama would do much better if he would extend his efforts to making friends…
A solution for the Shugden issue
By: J. Wong Over the years, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA; the Tibetan leadership based in Dharamsala, India) has conjured many ‘reasons’ for people to stop practicing Dorje Shugden. One of the oft-repeated and absurd claims is that Dorje Shugden practitioners receive money from the Chinese leadership. The CTA’s intent for this ‘reason’ is to…
A Tribute To H.E. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche
In the great assembly of Gelugpa Masters, His Eminence Gonsar Rinpoche stands out, not only as an erudite scholar in his own right, but also for his crucial role in the protection, tutoring and nurturing of two of the most important masters of the modern era who represent the pure lineage of Je Tsongkapa, His…
Gameng Kuten in Rabten Choeling
In November 2014, the famous Gameng Duldzin Kuten (oracle) of Gaden Monastery visited Rabten Choeling in Switzerland, where he took trance of our great protector Dorje Shugden. The visit of the Gameng oracle is a much anticipated yearly tradition…
First Ever Dorje Shugden Graphic Novel in Tibetan
DorjeShugden.com proudly presents the first ever graphic novel on Dorje Shugden’s life in tibetan. This graphic novel was produced with the motivation of bringing Dorje Shugden all over the world so that the blessings of his life story may pervade and touch lives everywhere…
A Speech By Kyabje Denma Gonsa Rinpoche
In this speech, Denma Gonsa Rinpoche tells his students that they should maintain guru devotion even at the cost of their lives, meaning to say that they should never go against their gurus nor abandon the practices that their gurus have given them…
CTA Calls Citizens of Other Nations “Criminals”
On March 17, 2014 the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA; Tibetan leadership based in Dharamsala) published a resolution on the Dorje Shugden ban (http://tibet.net/dolgyal-shugden/). It, amongst other things, labelled Dorje Shugden practitioners as “criminals in history”. Such a blanket statement is problematic when compared against the socio-economic and geopolitical demographic of 4 million Dorje Shugden practitioners…
The Secret History of the 14th Dalai Lama
Behind Tenzin Gyatso’s veneer of enlightenment lies a secret dark history of repressions and human rights abuses, committed against the very people he is supposed to protect…
Tibetans threaten Shugden people again
Recently an opinion piece, titled “Protests making the Dalai Lama more popular,” appeared in the Tibet Sun. It was written by Lobsang Wangyal who also edits for the Tibet Sun’s website. Like any article that attends to the Dalai Lama’s religious ban on Dorje Shugden, Wangyal’s piece sparked off quite a bit of debate and…
Obama: ‘We are not in favor of independence’
You have to consider the tactics of the CTA and His Holiness the Dalai Lama in pursuit of the ’freedom’ of Tibet has not borne fruit. They have been courting Western Governments for the last 50 years which is not working as they all believe Tibet is part of China. The West has no influence over the sovereign and powerful…
SPECIAL UPDATE
The dorjeshugden.com team recently received audiences, messages and advice from very eminent High Lamas and erudite Geshes. They gave us the inspiration and courage to continue maintaining this website for now. In addition, we thank Kyabje …Trijang Rinpoche for his timely divination regarding this matter. After hundreds of phone calls, meetings and many sleepless…
New York City: Peaceful Demonstrations Coverage
New York City was the final destination in the Dalai Lama’s recent USA tour, where he was scheduled to give a 3-day teaching. Once again, the Dalai Lama had to face both Western and…
Violence Again
American police break up bouts of violence against protestors by Dalai Lama supporters asking for religious freedom. Tibetans paid by the CTA to incite opposition in order to counter the peaceful protests of the Shugden worshippers. The kindly police officer shouts “What’s this suppose to be? I’m not playing knock it off.” It was only…
Boston: Peaceful Demonstrations Coverage
Following on the heels of protests in Princeton, New Jersey, devoted Shugden practitioners comprised of local Tibetans and the International Shugden Community followed the Dalai Lama to demonstrate at his upcoming teachings in Boston…
Princeton: Peaceful Demonstrations Coverage
Two days after demonstrating in Birmingham, Shugdenpas from both the International Shugden Community and and the local Tibetan community followed the Dalai Lama to his next teaching venue in Princeton University…
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Due to the distinctive lack of support and cooperation within the Dorje Shugden community to bring down the ban, promote Dorje Shugden and safeguard the Dorje Shugden monasteries, we at DorjeShugden.com have decided to terminate all our online activities effective November 8th 2014. Since its conception, we have spent millions of dollars and countless…
Birmingham: Peaceful Demonstrations Coverage
During his recent two-day teachings in Birmingham, Alabama, the Dalai Lama was met with hundreds of Tibetan and Western Shugden practitioners from the International Shugden Community, demanding that the Dalai Lama lift the ban on Dorje Shugden…
Vancouver: Peaceful Demonstration Coverage
The International Shugden Community is once again on the move, this time taking the peaceful demonstrations to Vancouver, Canada during the Dalai Lama’s teachings from 21-23 October 2014…
Attack on Dorje Shugden Followers
October 20, 2014 Press Release DALAI LAMA AND HIS FOLLOWERS BEEF UP ATTACK ON DORJE SHUGDEN FOLLOWERS 1. By attacking physically and trying to eliminate the followers of Dorje Shugden. 2. By bribing and convincing people to not follow Dorje Shugden. 3. Trying to divide Shugden followers and get them to infiltrate and divide by…
Ganden Chang Chub Choling Monastery
Ganden Chang Chub Choling started from humble beginnings in the early 1970’s through the efforts of a great attained master and stalwart Dorje Shugden practitioner, Geshe Khenrab Gajam of Ganden Jangtse Monastery…
Gaden Khachoe Shing, USA
Between October 3 to October 5, 2014, Kyabje Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche graced the opening of Venerable Kuten (Choijin) Lama’s monastery. Known as Gaden Khachoe Shing, the new monastery is located in Bloomington, Indiana (USA) on 150 acres of land. The opening was also graced by some of the most eminent lamas of the Gelug lineage…
US Vice Consul visits Shar Gaden
Due to the recent spate of violent attacks against Shugden practitioners, some lamas in Shar Gaden have been very concerned about the monastery’s safety and security. In the past year, the monastery has seen an attack on one of their elderly monks, and the takeover of one of the lama’s ladrangs. Thus the lamas contacted…
Rabten Choeling Switzerland
Rabten Choeling is one of the first Tibetan Buddhist monasteries to be established in the West after the exodus of Tibetans into India. Located on Mount-Pelerin, above Lake Geneva in Vevey, Switzerland…
A Guide to Spiritual Practice
Spiritual practice can be incorporated into our daily lives. Many of these practices are readily available and establishing a consistent routine of study and practice ensures our progress along the spiritual path…
Crippled for Life
I’ve always known that life is unpredictable. From the time when my father left us so suddenly after the family business collapsed and all he left my mother was debt…
Geshe Lhundub Sopa speaks about Shugden
Before delving into Geshe Sopa’s views, one will come to appreciate his views even more when we understand how eminent this master is and how much His Holiness the Dalai Lama respects him, to write such a glowing foreword and tribute to this great master. The following is but a brief overview of Geshe Sopa’s…
No South African visa for the Dalai Lama
By: Kay Beswick In an embarrassing turn of events for the Tibetan leadership, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been denied a visa to South Africa for the third time in five years. His Holiness was due to attend a summit of Nobel Peace prize winners to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of…
Samdhong Rinpoche and the CTA Scam
It has been 55 years since the Tibetan people became victims of a conflict that engulfed their lives and displaced them from their homes. Since then, the people have been hit by wave after wave of disappointments with the likelihood of them regaining their independence nowhere in sight…
Appreciation Letters
We are humbled and honored to receive the support and approval of Shar Ganden Monastery, one of the two great Dorje Shugden institutions in South India. We thank you for your encouragement and we will continue our efforts to peacefully bring down the ban on Lord Dorje Shugden’s practice…
Dalai Lama Recognizes the Bön
A casual comparative study of the Bön and Buddhist religions would immediately reveal that Bön does not qualify as a proper object of refuge, at least not according to Buddhist principles, Tibetan or otherwise…
Trijang Buddhist Institute (TBI)
Trijang Buddhist Institute located at Northfield, Vermont in the United States, is where Kyabje Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche, the incarnation of one of the most important and prominent lamas of Tibetan Buddhism in the modern era…
An Offering of Mahamudra
Recently, one of the most honored Gelugpa lineage masters, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, presented 500 copies of ‘The Oral Instructions of Mahamudra’ to the monks of Shar Ganden Monastery…
Activities and Events at Shugden Centres Around the World – October 2014
Awesome programmes of Je Tsongkapa’s tradition are lined up for October 2014 around the world. Here are some of the outstanding ones…
The Five Causes That Will Bring Down The Ban
The heat is on. While the International Shugden Community’s ongoing protests for the Dalai Lama to lift the Dorje Shugden ban is getting the most attention, there are four other powerful, unstoppable rivers that are flowing into the walls of the ban, slowly but surely bringing it down…
Dharma Demystified: Nagarjuna, the Founder of the Mahayana Tradition
According to scriptural sources, Nagarjuna was born to a Brahmin family from the ancient kingdom of Vidarbha in the southern part of India. Upon being presented with the newborn baby, the soothsayer observed auspicious signs of a holy being but also made an ominous prediction that the baby would not live past the seventh day…
The Ban Matters To Me
In the past, I would never hesitate to explain Dorje Shugden’s practice to those who wish to know more. But with the ban enforced by the Dalai Lama, it makes sharing of this wonderful Dharma Protector’s practice very difficult…
La Storia Illustrata di Dorje Shugden (Dorje Shugden – An Illustrated Story in Italian)
Adesso chiunque potrà viaggiare indietro nel tempo per capire come unincomparabile Lama sia nato allo scopo di diventare un Protettore straordinario…
Lama Michel Rinpoche
Born Michel Calmanowitz in 1981, Lama Michel has been recognized by Lama Gangchen and many great lamas as a Tulku – the reincarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist Master. He was born to Bel and Daniel Calmanowitz who are both students of His Eminence Lama Gangchen Rinpoche…
Four Days of Purification with H.E. Daknak Rinpoche in Taiwan
Recently, H.E. the 14th Daknak Rinpoche presided over a four-day puja: a one-day Yamantaka peaceful Fire Puja and a three-day Medicine Buddha Puja. Highly respected in Taiwan, Daknak Rinpoche’s great dedication and hard work eventually led to the founding of the Daknak Genden Lhundup Monastery…
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