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The Dalai Lama has imposed a ban on the worship of the 500 year old deity Dorje Shugden, a great importance in his Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) sect of Tibetan Buddhism. This has created divisions among the Tibetans living in India, where Shugden worshippers are being ostracized from their community in the name of the Dalai Lama. Western Shugden Society: http://www.westernshugdensociety.org/en/protesting/dalai-lama-stop-lying THE BIG LIE The Dalai Lama says Dorje Shugden is a harmful spirit. For centuries, every great Master in the Buddhist Tradition passed down from Je Tsongkhapa, including the Dalai Lamas root Guru Trijang Rinpoche, has revered Dorje Shugden as an enlightened being who helps sincere practitioners progress on the spiritual path by developing pure minds of love, compassion, and wisdom. The Dalai Lama himself was trained in this tradition, and for 40 years relied upon Dorje Shugden, even composing a prayer of his own praising Dorje Shugden and requesting his help. Then, suddenly in 1975 he abandoned the practice because he had discovered Dorje Shugden was a harmful spirit! Incredibly, we are being asked to believe that the Dalai Lama accidentally worshipped a harmful spirit for 40 years without noticing! THE TRUTH To consolidate his grip on political power in exile he has attempted to destroy the four great traditions of Tibetan Buddhism the Gelug, Sakya, Kagyu, and Nyingma traditions and create a new religious movement he calls ri-me. Previously he had been a member of the Gelug tradition. As part of a deal with some leaders of the other traditions he agreed to abandon the practice of Dorje Shugden and command others to do the same because Dorje Shugden practitioners prefer to rely upon the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa without mixing with other practices. For sincere Buddhists to abandon a practice given by their Spiritual Guide is inconceivable, and so understandably there was considerable resistance to his calls for others to follow him in abandoning the practice. The Dalai Lama responded by demonizing the practice, referring to a Deity he once revered as a harmful spirit and concocting absurd stories to convince those with superstitious minds to abandon the practice. Under the guise of historical investigation, he quotes selectively from various Tibetan texts to argue that the practice has been controversial with past Dalai Lamas. What he does not address is the iniquity of the present and previous Dalai Lamas freely mixing politics with religion and frequently adopting and rejecting religious practices simply for reasons of political expedience.

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