As we no doubt are living in a culture of cover-up and corruption it seems only fair to do an expose on some of our most celebrated leaders. From Politician to Pope to Monk. Something stinks here and we need to watch not only what they are saying but more importantly what they are doing. Just because he is the DALAI LAMA does not protect him from corruption and we need to stop and take a closer look at what is really going on behind the scenes. July 6th will mark the 79th birthday of the most iconic religious figure in current popular culture, a figure most often associated with peace, tolerance, non-violence and religious harmony, none other than Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. Behind the carefully crafted and stage managed image of the world’s most popular Buddhist monk lies a story of religious persecution and political oppression inflicted on the Tibetan people, not by the Chinese, but by the Dalai Lama himself. For over 20 years the Dalai Lama has been trying to stop Tibetans from practising a traditional Buddhist Deity called Dorje Shugden, a practice he himself used to engage in. He has so far instituted an official ban on the practice, has forced monks out of their monasteries for refusing to give up the practice and most recently the Tibetan government has gone as far as to criminalise the practice. Dorje Shugden is a traditional Buddhist protector Deity which was popularly practised within the largest school of Tibetan Buddhism, the Gelug school, as well as amongst approximately 30% of the Tibetan population in general, according to Thupten Wangchen of the Tibetan government. Prior to 1996 just under 2 million Tibetans practised Dorje Shugden in accordance with instructions they had received from their teachers, yet for reasons the Dalai Lama has failed to properly explain he officially banned it. thelondoneconomic/2014/07/07/would-the-real-dalai-lama-please-stand-up/?utm_content=buffer751ae&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:44:56 +0000
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