Dalai Lama Give Religious Freedom to Dorje Shugden Practitioners

http://www.westernshugdensociety.org Using his unelected position as head of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama is interfering with religious freedom by imposing a ban on the practice of Dorje Shugden and fostering a campaign of intimidation, humiliation, and ostracism on those who do not observe it.

In 1997, the Dalai Lama said, I first started placing restrictions on Dholgyal about seventeen or eighteen years ago. (Dholgyal, is a derogatory term he uses to refer to Dorje Shugden).

Since that time, he has systematically increased the severity of the ban and the painful consequences of not observing it

Relentless persecution
Today:

Monks and nuns are unconstitutionally expelled from their monasteries and nunneries if they do not give up the practice
Thousands of Shugden practitioners among the Tibetan lay people are being forced to abandon the practice or lose the support of their government and face orchestrated public humiliation and intimidation
People who refuse to renounce the practice are losing their jobs, their children are being expelled from schools, and their travel papers, which require prior authorization from the Tibetan Government in Exile, are not being endorsed
Statues have been smashed, temples destroyed, books burned, practitioners houses attacked, and even death threats issued in an orgy of persecution that resembles a medieval witch hunt
Despite frequent denials, these violations of religious freedom are taking place every day and there are many who can testify to the fact.

Global ambitions
The Dalai Lama and his government in exile have declared their intention to restrict religious freedom at first in India, and then in Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, and eventually the whole world.

Persecution in the West
Even Shugden practitioners outside of the Tibetan community are having their religious freedoms curtailed by the Dalai Lamas actions.

Because the Dalai Lama generally enjoys uncritical celebrity status in almost every country, many people simply accept what he says without question.

As a result, various western Buddhist centers with a connection to the Dalai Lama are now signing declarations promising not to engage in the Shugden practice or to allow into their center anyone who does. They are also publicly denigrating those practitioners and centers in the West who do engage in this practice.

Such is the spell cast by the Dalai Lama that these people have suspended their critical faculties to embrace what is nothing more than a piece of medieval superstition.

Incredibly, Shugden practitioners in the West are now wrongly being condemned as non-Buddhists!

The Office of Tibet is currently sending pernicious disinformation to various governmental and non-governmental agencies besmirching Western Shugden practitioners and centers that follow Dorje Shugden, exploiting the Dalai Lamas reputation to persuade them not to have dealings with Shugden practitioners.

These actions have a seriously detrimental effect on the running of the centers, and restrict the religious freedom of thousands of people in the West.

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