Dalai Lama Caught on Camera Insulting Buddhist Nun and Criticizing Ancient Buddhist Practice
(PRWEB) February 26, 2014 -- In an incident captured on an iPhone camera by a surprised hotel guest, the Dalai Lama was seen pointing his finger at and refusing to accept a request for religious freedom by a quiet Buddhist nun.
As his entourage encouraged him to leave, he returned to criticize the nuns spiritual tradition by denouncing it as not a religion but as spirit worship, and therefore not eligible for religious freedom.
The nun was part of a group of Buddhist practitioners who have been requesting dialogue with the Dalai Lama for 18 years, asking him to give religious freedom to Shugden Buddhists by lifting a ban he imposed in 1996 on their 400-year old spiritual practice.
Spokesperson, Len Foley, for the International Shugden Community, a group representing the rights of Shugden Buddhists said “We have tried to have a discussion with him for many years now. This is the only time a Shugden Buddhist has gotten close enough to him to question him directly. His reaction brings us great sadness”.
Len Foley continues, “By imposing this ban, his words and actions have and are causing millions of people to suffer by creating division between them and destroying their harmony and peaceful life. There have been many incidences where his followers have been incited to extreme anger with Shugden practitioners, resulting in public humiliation, provocation, intimidation and threats, including dismissing them from their jobs, refusing basic, and even medical services to them. We do not ask that he likes our religion but that religious freedom should apply to all traditions whether he likes them or not. This is our only point. Because we cannot get dialogue with him, the only voice we have is to demonstrate against him at all his events including this week in California and next week in DC”.
(Cabinet of Tibet Government in Exile - Dharamsala 'Points of the Kashag's statements concerning Dogyal, 31 May 1996,http://www.dalailama.com/messages/dolgyal-shugden/kashags-statement, Aug 1st, 2008).
More information at http://www.falsedalailama.com
Other news articles on the demonstrations include:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Dalai-Lama-The-Forum-Los-Angeles-California-Tibet-247050521.html
http://www.abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=9441887
Rachael Jeffrey, International Shugden Society, http://www.internationalshugdensociety.com, +1 6314058511, [email protected]
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