Archive for September 2008
Disputing Pico Iyer’s version of events regarding the Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden Part Four
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 28, 2008
Part Four: Disputing Pico Iyer’s version of events regarding the Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden Part Four of setting the record straight on Pico Iyer’s book, Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Religious Harmony? Page 138….. On and on the passionate tirade went, like nothing so much as a prosecuting lawyer’s [...]
The Voices of Reason
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 24, 2008
Earlier today I was on the NKT Truth Blog run by wisdomfire and I noticed a link to a video I had seen a while ago, just interviews with Dorje Shugden practitioners about why Dorje Shugden is so important to them. I watched the video again and it’s so beautiful that I have to draw [...]
Dorje Shugden saved the Dalai Lama’s life
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 23, 2008
In his autobiography Freedom In Exile, the Dalai Lama describes how his escape from Tibet was possible because of a map drawn by the State Oracle Nechung: “Still in trance the medium stumbled forward, took paper and a pencil and drew clearly and precisely the escape route…..” You may be surprised to learn that this [...]
Keeping Religion and Politics Separate
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 22, 2008
There is a very interesting article on the Tibettalk website by Jigme Duntak called ‘Keep Religion and Politics Separate’ The article questions the actions of the Tibetan Government in Exile passing a resolution in 1996 to follow the Dalai Lama’s advice to stop the propitiation of Dorje Shugden, arguing that a secular government should not [...]
Visit the Robert Thurman Blog
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 21, 2008
As you will have read on this blog and other sites, the Western Shugden Society has issued a challenge to Robert Thurman to provide evidence that Shugden practitioners are the Taliban of Buddhism and that the Western Shugden Society protestors are ‘working for the Chinese’. Someone has started a blog to publicize this challenge and [...]
Part Three: Disputing Pico Iyer’s version of events regarding the Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 20, 2008
Part Three of setting the record straight on Pico Iyer’s book, Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama’s personal feelings about Dorje Shugden pp 135-138 One hot day in August 2005 in Zurich, at an eight day set of teachings on compassion the Dalai Lama was offering, the public [...]
Disputing Pico Iyer’s version of events regarding the Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden Part Two
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 17, 2008
Part Two of setting the record straight on Pico Iyer’s book, Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Nechung, the unreliable oracle spirit who is treated like a Buddha Page 114: The Dalai Lama uses oracles (of which the most prominent is Nechung, whose trance we have just witnessed) as he might [...]
Six Questions for Tenzin Peljor
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 15, 2008
The NKT Truth Blog has posted a set of six questions from Ron Cook aimed at Tenzin Peljor and other supporters of the Dalai Lama related to the Dorje Shugden issue. When asked about the Dorje Shugden issue, supporters of the Dalai Lama generally resort to simply repeating the Dalai Lama’s reasons for banning the [...]
Double standards apply
Posted by: dorjeshugdentruth on: September 12, 2008
The Dalai Lama is doing everything he is accusing everyone else of. For example: 1. The Dalai Lama claims that Buddhism is degenerating into spirit worship by relying on Dorje Shugden, yet he propitiates (and has a whole temple for) a spirit claiming to be Nechung whom he relies on for advice. 2. The Dalai [...]
