op-online.de (Local news for Offenbach, Germany)
Interview: Dalai Lama’s visit is “the ideal projection”
"[Non-violence?] Not really. In the history of Buddhism there exists violence just like anywhere else. 1996/97 in Tibet there was the Dorje Shugden affair around a protection deity which is not really clarified even today. The Dalai Lama had banned the worship of this deity. Even murder was committed and no-one knows for sure who is guilty for that. At the time the Dalai Lama acted in very harsh ways against the representatives of another, more folklike denomination. Also there was a split of his tradition from other denominations."
Dr. Friedmann Eissler - Officer of Research of the Protestant Central Department for Religious Issues
Published: 21/08/2011
