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Monks Demand Dalai Lama’s Deportation

By Imran Khan | IANS | December 16, 2002

Patna: A section of Indian Buddhist monks has demanded that Tibetan leader Dalai Lama be deported from this country.

The monks associated with the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar demanded that President APJ Abdul Kalam order the deportation of both the Dalai Lama and the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorji, who heads a sect of Tibetan Buddhists. All India Monks Association general secretary Bhadant Anand, in a memorandum to the president, alleged that the Dalai Lama, through his “questionable” acts and “pretensions”, had caused avoidable tension between India and China.

The Tibetan leader’s deportation, he argued, could improve Sino-Indian relations.

India gave the Dalai Lama political asylum in 1959 after the Chinese entered Tibet. He has since been based in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh and runs the Tibetan government-in-exile from there. Anand, who is based in Buddhism’s birthplace Bodh Gaya, told IANS on the telephone:

The Dalai Lama’s stay is against the interest of India as he is involved in activities harming the country. The Dalai Lama is causing harm to the Buddhists as well as Tibetans and Indians.

This is not the first time Anand has targeted the Dalai Lama and Karmapa. A few months ago he alleged that the Dalai Lama was involved in “anti-India activities” and was harming this country’s image. Monks led by Anand had staged a daylong demonstration Sunday in Gaya demanding the immediate deportation of the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa.

Their memorandum alleged the Karmapa and his mentor, the Dalai Lama, were misusing India’s hospitality.

Anand claimed that two years ago the Karmapa had hurt the sentiments of millions of Buddhists across the world by entering the Mahabodhi temple — which stands near the spot where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago — with his shoes on. He called it an attack on Indian culture and a deliberate act to humiliate Indians. Indians generally do not wear shoes in places of worship.

Anand said when Taliban were destroying massive stone images of the Buddha in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan region, neither the Dalai Lama nor the Karmapa had protested despite the fact that the international community had in one voice appealed to the militia not to damage the statues.

Source: http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/indiageneral/indiag13.html

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  1. Sushilla Kapur

    January 19, 2015 at 11:20 am

    One man’s meat is another man’s poison !
    When HHDL goes on tour overseas to give teachings and initiations, thousand and thousands of people go to see him. Yet, there are those who simply do not even want him to be around them.

  2. shugdenmasive

    January 19, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    But they cant deport him to Tibet , So confused !

  3. kelly

    January 22, 2015 at 3:05 am

    In the political point of view really the Dalai Lama stay in India it really not bring much of the benefits to the country even come to a point it will also bring conflict to India government, the conflict between China and India. I guess why India accepted Dalai Lama because of the religion reason more than a political reason.

  4. Eli Buchen

    January 25, 2015 at 11:57 am

    Deporting the Tibetans who are part of CTA would be a greater benefit for harmony and peace.

  5. Rinchen

    February 14, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Personally, I feel that whether it is to be deporting the Dalai Lama or someone else or not does not make a difference at all. Reason being that if it was just that easy to solve a problem by deporting people away, then it would not be really solving a problem.

    Instead, I feel that we should face this issue head strong. Hopefully one day they would CTA would not be able to cover their sins anymore. Showing the world the truth on what is going on then all of us would be able to our practice freely. Only when that day comes, we would truly have religious freedom.

  6. Sonam la

    March 14, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    In this pure realm, surrounded by snow moutains,
    Is the source of complete happiness and benefit,.
    Avalokiteshvara, Tenzin Gyatso.
    May you stand firm until the end of existence.

    May you live thousands of years for Buddha Dharma and for all sentient beings ! May all your wishes come true for better world and peace on earth ! Remeber, 99 % Tibetan people are still following you and standing by you ! You are sunshine in this universe !! We love you till the end !

  7. SabrinaS

    July 11, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    Well, finally some body who sees the Dalai Lama as a controversial figure that his is and the damage he brings for India in terms of relationship with China. Not only had the Dalai Lama created so much controversy with the Dorje Shugden ban that had brought on so many human/religious rights right issue, the ban definitely contradicts India;s benevolent nature of religious freedom for all practitioners, irregardless of what religion as long as they practise in peaceful manner. I would say for certainty that peace is the least of CTA’s political concern. They totally wish to ostracised the Shugden practitioners in any ways and hows that they can think off. Stopping short of murder? Not according to some of the reports that I have read. The constant threats are always there and the Shugden practitioners have to face verbal abuses, denial of their basic necessities, their livelihood, medical care and financial aid (which millions and millions of dollars had been donated by countries and individuals to alleviate their living standard of all Tibetan-In-Exile as refugees). The Dalai Lama, face of benign compaasion, always teaches on love, compassion and peace. So what had he offered to his own people who practises Dorje Shugden?

    So should the Dalai Lama be deported from India? I don’t think so but I think it’s high time that the Indian Government sits down with him to understand the way forward and most all to lift the Shugden ban which is illogical and downright wrong.

  8. Sierra

    August 15, 2016 at 3:09 am

    This is a really interesting take the situation of the Tibetans in India.

    “All India Monks Association general secretary Bhadant Anand, in a memorandum to the president, alleged that the Dalai Lama, through his “questionable” acts and “pretensions”, had caused avoidable tension between India and China.”

    And, to add to all these allegations by Bhadant Anand, there is the added problem of the ban on the practice of Dorje Shugden and having the CTA claiming that China is backing these practitioners to harm the Dalai Lama, creating even more tension to the fray.

    “Anand said when Taliban were destroying massive stone images of the Buddha in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan region, neither the Dalai Lama nor the Karmapa had protested despite the fact that the international community had in one voice appealed to the militia not to damage the statues.”

    This is actually is what is really getting to me. The Dalai Lama recently meddled in the refugee problem in Europe, something that is out of his jurisdiction as a Buddhist monk. And, yet he did not even say a word on the destruction of Buddhist sites.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/dalai-lama-thinks-europe-has-let-too-many-refugees-n583701

    As has been pointed put by many quarters, the Dalai Lama and CTA claimed that that they did not sanction a ban but said nothing to advise their followers not to do harm to any Dorje Shugden practitioners, something that is so against the basic tenets of BUddhism of equanamity, kindness and love.

    Mind you, the Dalai Lama is a Nobel Peace Prize holder. So, the Dalai Lama and CTA has one image for the rest of the world and another for the Indians and Tibetans??

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