ARTILE CRITIQUE

Artile critique

Artile critique

The controversy over this deity began in 1996 when the Dalai Lama publicly asked Tibetan Buddhists to not worship Dorje Shugden because he believed it instigated divisiveness and sectarianism among the different orders of Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama speaks during a news conference in New Delhi on 31 March 2009 marking 50 years since the failed uprising against Chinese rule and his flight into exile in India. He accused the Chinese government of painting a rosy picture of Tibet when actually, Tibetans living there are in great distress. (Graham Sanderg, 2005, 75-89)

In February 1997 Lobsang Gyatso, a ...