Exposing the persecution
Within the Tibetan community the Dalai Lama holds absolute power and so for the Shugden practtitioners the only protection against the extreme persecution he has inflicted upon them is the glare of the media spotlight. Whilst many journalists have been content to simply reproduce the Dalai Lama's propaganda, those who have investigated further have found an unsettling reality.
The New York Magazine
Zero Worship
The Shugden Coalition ... has collected some 15,000 signatures petitioning the Dalai Lama to lift the ban, which, the Coalition claims, has incited human-rights violations―house-to-house searches, destruction of prayer books and images of the deity―among some of his followers, primarily…
New Internationalist
Deity Banned - Outrage as the Dalai Lama denounces Dorje Shugden
Buddhists picketed the Dalai Lama’s recent visit to the United States and Europe. They protested against the ban on the worship of the 350-year-old deity, Dorje Shugden, whom they say is one of the most revered in the Buddhist…
Frontline (India's National Magazine)
Of the Dalai Lama and a Witch-hunt
What has been the impact of the ban?
Kundeling Rinpoche: “Severe. I call it the Tibetan Inquisition initiated worldwide, but particularly in India. For example, the house of every Tibetan was searched, pictures and images of Dorje Shugden…
The New Statesman
Why did the Dalai Lama ban Dorje Shugden?
Gradually the pressure on Dorje Shugden practitioners got worse. Fanatical Dalai Lama followers began to demolish statues of the deity, the existing social solidarity amongst Tibetans was gone. Even in Tibet itself, where restoration of temples is in full…
