"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’
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NOT KNOWING HISTORY IS “LIKE A MONKEY IN A DARK FOREST”: The deliberate ‘disrupting’ and subsequent cancellation of the 17th Karmapa’s teaching and activities, Q & A in Tibetan parliament about the meeting, and the importance of knowing one’s history and origins
"Regardless of the region we are from, the religion we follow, or the views or positions we hold, for the benefit of Tibet as a whole, we must do what is important and let go of what is minor—it is important not to mistake gold for brass or to reduce sandalwood to ash before selling… Continue reading NOT KNOWING HISTORY IS “LIKE A MONKEY IN A DARK FOREST”: The deliberate ‘disrupting’ and subsequent cancellation of the 17th Karmapa’s teaching and activities, Q & A in Tibetan parliament about the meeting, and the importance of knowing one’s history and origins
RECOGNISING JONANG AND RIGHTING PAST WRONGS IN TIBET: New online campaign launched by Tibetan Jonang lineage holder to demand that central Tibetan exile government authorities officially recognise one of the main Tibetan Buddhist lineages
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --George Santayana "History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." ~ Sydney J. Harris Introduction A new campaign and online petition to recognise the Jonang Tibetan Buddhist tradition has been launched by the… Continue reading RECOGNISING JONANG AND RIGHTING PAST WRONGS IN TIBET: New online campaign launched by Tibetan Jonang lineage holder to demand that central Tibetan exile government authorities officially recognise one of the main Tibetan Buddhist lineages