The fifth Dalai Lama

Fifth Dalai Lama

Wars and Murders ordered by the Fifth Dalai Lama

The institution of the Dalai Lama as we currently know it – mixing Dharma with politics as a method of government – begins with the Dalai Lama popularly known as the ‘Great Fifth’. With the Fifth Dalai Lama’s sovereignty encompassing all spiritual and temporal authority he became not only an autocrat, but also supreme master over life and death for the masses of ordinary Tibetans. An examination of some of the Fifth Dalai Lama’s own statements indicates just how far he was willing to go to eliminate those who opposed him

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[Of those in] the band of enemies, who have despoiled the duties entrusted to them:
Make the male lines like trees that have had their roots cut;
Make the female lines like brooks that have dried up in winter,
Make the children and grandchildren like eggs smashed against cliffs,
Make the servants and followers like heaps of grass consumed by fire,
Make their dominion like a lamp whose oil has been exhausted,
In short, annihilate any traces of them, even their names.

Imagining Tibet: perceptions, projections, & fantasies
The Fifth Dalai Lama

no pity should be wasted on a man who had to be executed for his crimes

Tibet: A Political History
The Fifth Dalai Lama

Though we might take revenge, I ... the cleric occupying the seat of the omniscient ones, would not appear as a disobedient monk.

Imagining Tibet: perceptions, projections, & fantasies
The Fifth Dalai Lama

All together, the Tibetan government launched seven separate assaults on the Bhutanese between 1616 and 1679.

Tales of Intrigue from Tibet's Holy City
Linsay G. McCune

Elliott Sperling ‘Orientalism’ and Aspects of Violence in the Tibetan Tradition, Imagining Tibet, Thierry Dodin & Heinz Räther (eds.), (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001), 319.

Ram Rahul, Dalai Lama: The Institution (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1995), 29.

John Powers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, (New York: Snow Lion Publications, 2007), 163-4

Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, Tibet: A Political History (New York: Potala Publications, 1984), 100-3.

Zuiho Yamaguchi, 'The Sovereign Power of the Fifth Dalai Lama: sPrul sku gZims-khang-gong-ma and the Removal of Governor Norbu', Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) No.55, (Tokyo: The Toyo Bunko, 1995).

Melvyn C. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon – China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 9.

Marylin M. Rhie & Robert A. F. Thurman, Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet (Tibet House/Abradale Press, 1997), 300-1

Kundeling Rinpoche, An Authority in Question, (unpublished thesis), 28-30;

A Talk Concerning Shugden Practice 13 July 1978, from An Anthology of Talks Given by His Holiness The Dalai Lama Concerning Reliance Upon the Dharma Protectors, (Dharamsala, LTWA).

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche (tr. David Molk), Music Delighting an Ocean of Protectors.

Fifth Dalai Lama, in Tibetan: ’Jam.mgön rgyal.wa’i bsten.srung rdo.rje shugs.lden kyi ‘phrin.bchol bhjoks.bsdus, published by Sera Mey Monastery, p14;
English translation (unattributed.), Prayer by the 5th Dalai Lama to Gyelchen Dorje Shugden.
For another English translation (unattributed.),see Ursula Bernis' 'Exiled from Exile', Propitiation of Shugden by the Great Fifth Dalai Lama.

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The Western Shugden Society has based its research on the works of respected and independent scholars, investigative journalists and on original source material to demonstrate its position. Some of this material is freely available on the internet. Wherever possible we have provided links to the original documents or means to access them. We invite you to investigate them for yourself.