Overview

The purpose of this book is to achieve the following four aims: to liberate millions of innocent practitioners of the Buddhist Deity Dorje Shugden and their families from suffering; to restore peace and harmony between Shugden and non-Shugden practitioners; to re-establish the common spiritual activities of Shugden and non-Shugden practitioners; and, to free Buddhism from political pollution. Achieving these aims depends solely upon whether the present Dalai Lama will accept the four points set out at the conclusion of chapter 4 of this book. The Dalai Lama wishes to ban Shugden worship in general; and in particular to remove Tibetan Shugden worshippers from their communities, and Western Shugden worshippers from the international Buddhist community. Since 1996 the Tibetan exile government has continually applied effort to fulfil these wishes. In February 2008 alone, 900 monks who are Shugden practitioners were expelled from their monasteries in India. In 1996 the Tibetan exile government publicly decreed to the Tibetan communities of each country, including Tibet, that Shugden practitioners were their national enemies and were against the Dalai Lama's wishes. The decree stated that unless Shugden practitioners promised to stop Shugden worship they would not receive any official position or job, nor any help or support, even medical assistance, either from the Tibetan exile government or from individual members of the Tibetan community. Further, any connection at all with Shugden practitioners should be cut. Children of Shugden practitioners were no longer permitted to attend Tibetan schools, and Shugden practitioners themselves could not join community meetings, social events and so forth. 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 each country throughout the world has directly and practically followed the orders of the exile government. These representatives have organized vigilante groups in their respective regions and directly prevailed upon such groups to defame, threaten, and sometimes physically harm Shugden practitioners. In this way many Shugden temples have been closed and shrines destroyed, individual Shugden practitioner's houses have been burned down, practitioners have been brutally beaten, and children have been banned from their schools. Tibetan Shugden practitioners are repeatedly accused unjustly of being 'the Tibetan national enemy' and ostracised from their communities. This inhumane treatment directly violates basic human rights and principles of democratic law, but nevertheless pervades almost every Tibetan community today, whether in the East or West.

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Author:   Western Shugden Society
Publisher:   Western Shugden Society
Imprint:   Western Shugden Society
ISBN:  

9780956391803

ISBN 10:   095639180
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART ONE: The Tibetan Situation Today * Chapter 1: Lama Policy * Chapter 2: Reting Lama - How he chose the false Dalai Lama * Chapter 3: A Dictator * Chapter 4: A Hypocrite * Chapter 5: The Ban on the Practice of Dorje Shugden: a Chronicle of Events * Chapter 6: Newspaper and Magazine Articles PART TWO: The Dalai Lama of Tibet - Unravelling the Myth * Chapter 7: Mixing Religion and Politics o Dharma and Politics o The Meaning of 'Mixing Religion and Politics' o The Tibetan System of Government + Oracles, Dough Balls and Divinations * Chapter 8: The History and Institution of the Dalai Lamas o Je Tsongkhapa and the Ganden Tradition o The First Four Dalai Lamas o The Fifth Dalai Lama o The Sixth and Seventh Dalai Lamas o The Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas o The Thirteenth Dalai Lama * Chapter 9: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama o His Early Life and Education + Embracing Communism + The Myths Surrounding his Escape from Tibet o Political Views and Failures + The Issue of Tibetan Independence + Negotiations with Beijing + The Panchen Lama Affair + The Issue of Democratization o How the Dalai Lama's Failures Led to His Ban on Dorje Shugden * Chapter 10: The Implementation, Effects and Alleged Reasons for the Ban on the Practice of Dorje Shugden * Chapter 11: Open Secrets concerning the Fourteenth Dalai Lama o The Recognition of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama o The Illusion of Government o The Dalai Lama's Brother, Gyalo Dondrub o The Dudjom Rinpoche Affair o The Assassination of Gungtang Tsultrim o The Karmapa Affair o The Politics of the Kalachakra Initiations o Defamation of Je Phabongkhapa o The Dalai Lama's involvement with the CIA and the Tibetan Guerrillas o The Attempted Coup in Bhutan o The Tibetan Arms Trade o The Hypocrisy over Taiwan o The Dalai Lama's fascination with war and Nazism o The Friendship with Shoko Asahara o Incitements to Murder o How did the Dalai Lama receive the Nobel Peace Prize? * Chapter 12: Judging the Dalai Lama by his Actions o What has the Dalai Lama achieved? o 'Free Tibet' - Where has all the money gone? o Who is the real Dalai Lama? * Appendix 1: 1959 Correspondence between the Dalai Lama and General Tan Kuan-san * Appendix 2: The Mongoose-Canine Letter * References * Index

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