Dorje Shugden

Detailed reports of discrimination from inside India

 

Interviews/reports

May/June 2008 in brief

Videos

Detailed chronicle 1980-2008

 

Interviews/reports (there are also a great many other reports of similar abuses both in the lay communities and monasteries from the 1990s to the present day. See www.dorjeshugden.com and other sources.)

• The oath-taking continues in the Tibetan settlements, June 25, 2008
  
• Dorje Shugden practitioners barred from public temple, May 28, 2008
  
• Indians helping the journalists carry their luggage lose their jobs, May 28, 2008
  
• Journalists researching the ostracism are intimidated at Otty Tibetan market, May 22, 2008
  
• A report from a lay Tibetan Shugden practitioner on what is happening right now in the Tibetan community, May 8, 2008

• A report from Tamil Nadu Tibetan Market, May, 2008

• An interview with Geshe Cheme Tsering, a Lharampa Geshe, Oct 22 1997. He gives an insider's perspective into the workings of the Tibetan government in exile and how the ban is destroying his spiritual life.

• An interview with an Abbot of a Gelugpa monastery, Oct 6, 1997. He explains how the ban has affected him and his fellow monks, the impossibility of escape, and how this ban is destroying the Gelugpa tradition from within.

• Biographical statement by Jamphel Yeshe, the sixty-year-old President of the Dorje Shugden Society, on the Wanted Posters and the persecution, death threats and separation suffered by him and his wife and children. 1997

• Interview with Mrs Pema, Delhi 1997, where she explains about the stone-throwing and arson attacks on her house in Clementown, with children locked inside, and why she could not initiate legal action.

 

May/June 2008 in brief

 

Reports are coming through that:

• Agents of the Dalai Lama are trying to destroy Palgyeling Monastery in Nepal.
• Mobs supportive of the Dalai Lama's ban burnt down the house and hotel of Tenzing Choegyal (Zongkar Choede) in New Delhi last Thursday.
• A doctor who was helping Dorje Shugden practitioners was attacked yesterday at a clinic in a Tibetan settlement (Ooti) that was giving out medicines for tuberculosis.
• The Dalai Lama's sister Pema is in Paris starting the forced signature campaign of Tibetans in France.
• The forced signature campaign is being arranged for Madison, US, in July 2008.

Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama has been in England talking about tolerance, religious harmony and the need for dialog with one's enemies. He has still refused every single request to discuss the unlawful ban on the worship of Dorje Shugden.  

 

Videos

 

Swiss Documentary Part One, Part Two, Part Three

 

Reports from the Tibetan Exile Community in India, 1998, Swiss Public Television.

 

View a full transcript of the Dorje Shugden documentary.

 

Short extract from a transcript of the video recordings (watch the videos to see the whole story)

 

Commentator: Desperate because of a conflict with the Dalai Lama. They grant us entry into the temple. At the center of the conflict the protector deity Dorje Shugden. A very popular Deity who is called upon to increase the power of meditation. He is the patron deity of Tibet. He has been worshipped for centuries. Nothing would be more devastating to the monks than having to break the tradition but this is precisely what the Dalai Lama has been vehemently demanding for two years. He keeps proclaiming that worshipping Dorje Shugden harms the cause of Tibet and that it endangers his own life. Neither of these points can be comprehended by the monks, who are well-trained in logic.

 

An unusual scene, inconceivable only a few years ago. Monks demonstrate against the government of the Dalai Lama. (speaking Tibetan)

 

This man was present at the demonstration. Geshe Phuntsog Tsultrim is 64 years old and tells us that he is going through the saddest moments of his life.

 

"We had asked our teachers to initiate us into the practice of this Deity. Now we either have to act against the words of these great masters or disregard the Dalai Lama's ban. I deeply regret that I could have not died a few years ago, before this ban."

 

(Detailed footage of the whole situation is available on the videos. Please see for yourself.)

 

Unfortunately, there is plenty more of all this to come if the Dalai Lama doesn't lift the ban and persecution.

 

Detailed chronicle 1980-2008