Kalachakra by Panchen Lama’s guru, a direct counter to Dalai Lama?
This is very interesting, official China newspaper carry news of Panchen Lama’s guru giving Kalachakra, are they trying to dissuade the Tibetans from going to the Dalai Lama and coming towards Panchen Lama instead? Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-06/03/content_15458177.htm XIAHE, Gansu – Thousands of pilgrims gathered Saturday on a grassland near a monastery town in northwest China to…
Western Shugden Society
Very few have discussed the plight of Shugden practitioners in Western Shugden Society. I will delve into some of the issues faced by some of our eastern brothers in Tibet. The Tibetan exile government put the Dalai Lama’s wishes into practice directly in India, and in the same way the Dalai Lama’s official representative in…
The Shugden Dispute
In my last post I wrote about current issues within the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT). As promised, to fill out my attitude to the NKT I am posting an article I wrote in 1996 in the second issue of Dharma Lifemagazine, just as the dispute over Dorje Shugden was breaking out into the open. Much…
The Dalai Lama: a Spiritual Conundrum – A Reply to Criticism
Recently, someone posted the following on an anti-Shugden website regarding my previous post The Dalai Lama: a Spiritual Conundrum: According to NKT, the Dalai Lama has inflicted more harm that those who have killed millions of people, tortured millions of people and raped millions of women in modern times. What could be more harmful than…
Canonicity and Divine Interference: The Tulkus and the Shugden-Controversy
Michael von Brück Centre for Religious Studies Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Religions are systems of social communication which at the same time create images of reality which become normative structures of perception, and these in turn define what is considered ‘real’ in a given society. In this way the legitimacy of social structures as well as structures…
Spiritual Conundrum
I was trying to think of a title for this post. I settled on the title after I read these definitions of conundrum: A confusing and difficult problem or question an intricate and difficult problem What is the problem? Well, what do you think about these spiritual quotations? If we make a steady effort, I think we…
Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden’s Two Functions
The function of a Dharma protector is to arrange all outer and inner conditions so that everything that happens to us is perfect for our swiftest possible enlightenment. But Dorje Shugden is more than just a Dharma protector, he is also a wisdom Buddha. It is not enough to just know that the outer and…
Ban on Tai Situ Rinpoche – Dharana at Jantar Mantar
Dec 22, 2000 Category: Tai Situ Rinpoche Camp: New Delhi 110 001 July 31 ,1998 To. Shri K.R. Narayanan, His Excellency the President of India Rashtrapati Bhavan, NEW DELHI Sub: Ban on Tai Situ Rinpoche – Dharana at Jantar Mantar. May it please Your gracious Excellency, By the blessing of the Three Jewels we pray…
Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay says Only Democracy can resolve the issue of Tibet
January 13, 2012 11:07 am SONEPAT, Haryana: “Only democracy can resolve the issue of Tibet” said Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay at ‘Democracy in Exile: The case of Tibet’, a public lecture organised by the Jindal School of International Affairs on Thursday in Sonepat. Speaking to a packed hall of staff and students, Kalon Tripa…
Excerpt from Dagpo Rinpoche’s speech, November 1996
Below is an excerpt taken from a speech delivered by His Eminence Dagpo Rinpoche in November 1996, when he welcomed to Paris the fourteen-year-old reincarnation, Kyabje Chocktrul Rinpoche Tenzin Lobsang Yeshe Gyatso: For the benefit of the new people who have joined us today, I will mention all too briefly the activities that have been…
Panchen Lama delivers first speech outside Chinese mainland
The Panchen Lama is being groomed by China to rival the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. On Thursday, he made his first speech outside the Chinese mainland, highlighting the emergence of Dharma from ancient India and the need for its global promotion. In religion, Dharma means the law or the natural law and is a concept…
Chushi Gangdrug made to swear against Dorje Shugden who helped them
In this book “Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War” by Carole McGranahan, Duke University Press Books (October 1, 2010), it clearly recorded the incident where Chushi Gangdrug members consulted Dorje Shugden oracle during Chinese invasion in the 50s, and in 2008, they were made to swear against Dorje Shugden!! Shame…
Proof of the bigger picture – Chinese demanded monks to worship Shugden
It has always been dorjeshugden.com’s firm stand that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is purposely creating the ban on Dorje Shugden with a bigger picture at the back of His mind, which is actually to promote Dorje Shugden, especially in the Chinese world, where a renaissance of Buddhism is expected to happen. Below’s account is…
So Who is Telling the TRUTH?
As far as prolific biographies go, no one has need of a more extensive biography than His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who has thirteen previous lives to include. The man who has devoted his life to this sacred task is Glenn H. Mullin, the most prominent biographer of all fourteen Dalai Lamas. Having dedicated…
China May Use Dissident Sect Against Dalai Lama: Tibet
S Gopal Puri, TNN | May 15, 2012, 06.32AM IST DHARAMSHALA: The Tibetan government-in-exile on Monday pointed its finger towards a splinter community among Tibetans – the around 5000-strong Dorje Shugden community – after the Dalai Lama had raised an alarm on Sunday over threat to his life. The Dalai Lama has not recognized this…
Great Prayer Festival at Shar Gaden
The most venerated Geshe la, Thupten Thinley Rinpoche, who turned the wheel of dharma with great dedication and love for nearly one and half months at Shar Gaden Monastery is making prayers here at the five-day-long Great Prayer Festival. Many participants, who were endowed with good karma, were fortunate enough to receive wisdom from Rinpoche….
Good Faith, Bad Faith
While watching the Dalai Lama on YouTube the other day I was struck by a strange sensation. I was bored. Now don’t get me wrong. I like this ‘simple monk’ as Tenzin Gyatso likes to call himself. I had a long private audience with him years ago in Dharamsala that left me flying high for…
The Lord Dorje Shugden
The Mighty Lord Dorje Shugden is one of the most popular Buddhist protectors of all. Maybe some of the credit for his popularity goes to HH Dalai Lama for his tireless efforts in publicizing the controversy that had resulted in chaos within Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries as well as amongst Dharma centers around the world. If…
The Decision to Surrender
A lot of people get confused how one practically surrenders completely to the spiritual guide. It seems as if you would become a lifeless zombie frozen, incapable of acting. The reality is it is the exact opposite. Right now we are a lifeless zombie incapable of acting since we are completely controlled by our delusions…
Miracles around Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Many miracles have appeared around His Eminence Domo Geshe Rinpoche and his seat, Dungkar Monastery. From miraculous conch shells to halos and rainbows, these are just some of the signs of a highly attained being.
Emperors of China
Historically, the Emperors of China especially of the Qing dynasty have promoted Tibetan Buddhism for the purpose of national unity and harmony in the vast country of China. To that end, the Emperors established and cultivated a close relationship with Tibet, especially with the Dalai Lamas, Panchen Lamas and the Changkya Lamas (Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s…
The Dalai Lama: “Shugden practitioners: you’re not welcome”
We recently received another sad proclamation from the Dalai Lama, who regularly makes an issue of the practice of Dorje Shugden in his public teachings, and encourages his followers to stop this venerable, traditional Dharma practice. This time his teaching was made in Mongolia. We are grateful to the Dorje Shugden Society for translating this…
Battle of the Buddhists
Andrew Brown, 15 July 1996 Ruth Lister drove her shining 7-series BMW with aplomb down one of the worst roads I have ever seen. It was so badly potholed and steep that we might have been in Tibet. And so, in a sense, we were. For though physically we were in the small West Yorkshire…
Why Dorje Shugden Practitioners are not Isolationist – Part 2
Isolationism was intensified in 2008, when the Dalai Lama started a new phase of persecution against Shugden practitioners. Whilst ostensibly on a religious visit to Drepung Loseling monastery in South India, instead he instigated a political referendum on whether the monastery wanted Shugden monks to remain in their ranks. He forced the monks to vote…
Why Dorje Shugden Practitioners are not Isolationist – Part 1
Some people criticize Dorje Shugden practitioners for being ‘isolationist’ or ‘sectarian’, but it’s important to understand why these perceptions have come about because it may appear that ‘Shugdenpas’ have deliberately decided to separate from Tibetan society or Tibetan Buddhism as taught by the Dalai Lama. However, as is explained, this is not the case. The…
Beyond Belief
by Paul Mooney in Chatreng and Shangri-La Beijing stands accused of manipulating a long-simmering controversy in Tibetan Buddhism that has divided followers of the Dalai Lama It’s early morning at the Songzanlin Monastery in Shangri-La, Yunnan province, and nine monks are fingering prayer beads as they chant in a small room, gold-coloured shawls on their…
Test Of Faith
by Paul Mooney in Amarbayasgalant Its glory long-since faded, the Amarbayasgalant Monastery nonetheless stands out on the almost deserted Mongolian steppes, its chipped red and gold paint contrasting against a green backdrop of mountains. The dilapidated monastery, which dates back to the 1700s, in many ways serves as a metaphor for Buddhism in this country….
The Truth About Tibet and Dalai Lama
By Eirik Granqvist I read an article by Elisabeth Nauclrs in the Aug 22 edition of Hufvudstadsbladet (Hbl) in which she expresses anger with the Finnish government and president for not according the Dalai Lama an official reception. I have read other writings on the Dalai Lama’s visit in Hbl, too, and decided to tell…
Karmapa Asked Anti-Shugden Statue to be Removed
I remember the admin posted this before, so I would like to repost here for everyone’s reference: While the Sixteenth Karmapa (the previous Karmapa) was on a pilgrimage in Nepal he stopped at Urgyen Rinpoche’s new monastery. At that time the Nepalese king and queen were there and came out to greet him with a…
A Spirit of the XVII Century
Dear Forum Readers, I found this interesting article online which I thought might excite you from the pro-dzogchen side of the world of Tibetan Buddhism. The author is a journalist whom have claimed to have heard a lot of evidences from HHDL regarding the ban of the Dorje Shugden practice yet is unable to note…
How Official China Media Portrays Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden
See how official China media Xinhua and People’s Daily portray Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden, then we can get some signs of things to come… Namdrol How a layman sees the Dalai Lama XIV 2011-Nov-22 Tue A “POLITICIAN MONK” As one leading figure of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama,…
Validity of Oracles
TK’s reply: Geshe-la did give special treatment to his oracle uncle. Geshe-la invited his uncle the oracle several times to UK. In fact his oracle uncle took trance of Dulzin for over three hours and GAVE INITIATION OF AVALOKITESVARA to the students there one one occasion. That is how much the power of the oracle…
Possession by Dorje Shugden – The Oracle: Reflections on Self
I found this interesting article about someone who tried to invoke Dorje Shugden to possess him. I don’t believe for a moment that it was Dorje Shugden because i have read that for oracles to take trance of Dorje Shugden, they need to undergo many retreats and keep many vows. Also that Dorje Shugden’s energy…
Dalai Lama’s Brother is Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen?!
Due to their compassionate nature, it is said that enlightened beings will come back endlessly until the end of samsara. Such is the case with high masters like Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen, who is an emanation of Manjushri and who would later arise as Dorje Shugden. However, since the time Dorje Shugden was accused of being…
Dorje Shugden Enthroned by Chinese Emperor & the Dalai Lama
Here is the direct quote which is quoted directly from Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche’s autobiagraphy on page 123-124:- Enthroned as guardian of the Yellow Hat Teachings, By the Chinese emperor, the Dalai Lama, and his regent ~ Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche’s autobiagraphy on page 123-124 As for this, during the first period of the time of the…
CTA Removes Apartheid Policy Against Dorje Shugden?
Out of curiosity I did a search on CTA’s website www.tibet.net for “shugden”, and a list came out, but when I tried to click on the links with Shugden as the main topic, for example “His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Advice Concerning Dolgyal (Shugden)”, it only says “page not found”, same for a few other…
Dorje Shugden Empowerment
Dorje Shudgen is the dharma protector of the Mahayana tradition of the great Buddha-Lama Je Tsongkhapa. He is an enlightened being who is an emanation of the wisdom, compassion and spiritual power of all the Buddhas. His powerful mandala and retinue are the synthesis of the three Jewels – Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. His job…
Interview with His Holiness the 101st Gaden Tripa Lungrik Namgyal
Gaden Tripa – Supreme Head of the Gelugpa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism The following is an interview with His Holiness the 101th Ganden Tripa – Supreme Head of the Gelug Tradition. The interview is conducted on the occasion of His Holiness the 101th Ganden Tripa’s first official visit to Singapore. The interview is conducted by…
Four Very Important Questions
Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to you to draw your attention to a most important issue within the Tibetan Buddhist community. This is not about any Free Tibet issues. This is something even more important about the freedom of people within the Tibetan community and among each other. It is well known that…
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