Recently, I was alerted by someone living in the Tibetan exile community in Dharamsala, (a Gelugpa dominated political and religious area in India), that, on 26th March 2025, a senior female elected Tibetan exile minister, Tharlam Dolma (whose name means Path of Liberation Tārā), was persistently questioned by a Tibetan exile female MP, Konchog Chodon… Continue reading A TARA EMANATION IN TIBETAN EXILE POLITICS? Tibetan Education Minister, Tharlam Drolma, responds to female MP, Konchog Chodon querying the expense, time and necessity of celebrating Samdhong Rinpoche’s birthday
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THE GELUGPA ‘ONE-WAY STREET’ SECTARIANISM: The misuse of ‘non-sectarian’ (Ri-mey) terminology to stifle dissent and critique, and defend Gelugpa Sectarianism and political and religious domination in Tibet, pre- and post-1959, in the name of ‘unity’
"Even though most followers of Genden [Gelug] by shunning alcohol, drugs and so on, makes them role models of the teachings. Yet, as most also see no faults in killing and maiming. Such hateful hostility is a huge enemy, so please be careful!" དགེ་ལྡན་པ་ཕལ་ཆེར་ཆང་ནག་སོགས་འཛེམ་པས་བསྟན་པའི་མིག་ལྟོས་ལེགས་ཀྱང༌། ཕལ་ཆེར་གསོད་གཅོད་ལྷུར་ལེན་པ་ལ་སྐྱོན་དུ་མི་ལྟ་བས། ཞེ་སྡང་འདི་དགྲ་ཆེ་བས་གཟབ་འཚལ། --Jigme Lingpa "A person who doesn’t know their lineage… Continue reading THE GELUGPA ‘ONE-WAY STREET’ SECTARIANISM: The misuse of ‘non-sectarian’ (Ri-mey) terminology to stifle dissent and critique, and defend Gelugpa Sectarianism and political and religious domination in Tibet, pre- and post-1959, in the name of ‘unity’