Why His Holiness Stopped The Shagden Practice Case Study
Why His Holiness stopped the Shugden practice?
It was around 1976 when His Holiness started to recommend against the Doegyal practice. Initially, His Holiness did the Shugden practice for a long time. In the meantime time, he was investigating the nature and role of the spirit. After a thorough investigation, he came to a definite conclusion that it was more harmful than beneficial. So, he advised us better not to follow Doegyal practice. His Holiness admitted openly not once, many times that he made a mistake of doing Shugden practice. In my opinión, it helped him a lot to observe and investigate the nature of Shugden and finally came up with a verdict that is beyond a reasonable doubt – the exposure of Shugden´s real face
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He explained a proper way of relying on worldly spirits in accordance with the general Buddhist teaching. Generally speaking, the invocation of local gods and nagas is a widespread practice in our Tibetan Society. His holiness says that it is wrong according to Buddhism to trust your life completely in them. The Doegyal worshippers are of the opinión that they trust him wholeheartedly, and they do whatever he says. When they go to such extreme, it is clearly against the general concept of Buddhism. In Buddhism, there are only three objects of refuge. If you are a Buddhist, you are advised to go for refuge only in Three Jewels. This is the basic law for all Buddhists. Buddha advised you against taking refuge in worldly Spirits. But if you say that you don't follow the fundamental law of Buddhism, then it is a very strange contradiction …show more content…
Without him, Gelukpa teaching would not survive. But, their belief is completely in contradiction to what Je Tsonkapa himself instructed and followed by the mainstream Gelugpa Society. His Holiness was ironic in his remark, ”if ever you receive a request for obituary prayer for the death of the dharma protector Kalarupa,, only then we Gelupas need to look for a new one, until then there is no need for a new Dharmapala. Je Rinpoche gave the responsibility to one who is perfectly able, trustworthy and who can do the job properly”. Moreover, it is a disgrace to dismiss him from the job and find a replacement like Shugden whose nature is shrouded in mystery and never-ending controversy. If Doegyal were entrusted with a role of importance, at least, somewhere in the writings of the great Gelukpa teachers, they ought to have mentioned about it. But, we found nothing. In addition, when we look at the generations of great Geluk lamas, starting from the time of the great Fifth Dalai Lama, 6th Dalai Lama, the 7th Dalai lama, his tutor, Trichen Ngawang chokden, his disciple chankya Rolpai Dorjee, Thugyen choeky Nyima, the 8th Dalai lama Jamphel Gyatso, Nyulchu Dharmapada, Penchen Tenpai Wangchuk, the 13th Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai lama are extremely critical of
It was around 1976 when His Holiness started to recommend against the Doegyal practice. Initially, His Holiness did the Shugden practice for a long time. In the meantime time, he was investigating the nature and role of the spirit. After a thorough investigation, he came to a definite conclusion that it was more harmful than beneficial. So, he advised us better not to follow Doegyal practice. His Holiness admitted openly not once, many times that he made a mistake of doing Shugden practice. In my opinión, it helped him a lot to observe and investigate the nature of Shugden and finally came up with a verdict that is beyond a reasonable doubt – the exposure of Shugden´s real face
There …show more content…
He explained a proper way of relying on worldly spirits in accordance with the general Buddhist teaching. Generally speaking, the invocation of local gods and nagas is a widespread practice in our Tibetan Society. His holiness says that it is wrong according to Buddhism to trust your life completely in them. The Doegyal worshippers are of the opinión that they trust him wholeheartedly, and they do whatever he says. When they go to such extreme, it is clearly against the general concept of Buddhism. In Buddhism, there are only three objects of refuge. If you are a Buddhist, you are advised to go for refuge only in Three Jewels. This is the basic law for all Buddhists. Buddha advised you against taking refuge in worldly Spirits. But if you say that you don't follow the fundamental law of Buddhism, then it is a very strange contradiction …show more content…
Without him, Gelukpa teaching would not survive. But, their belief is completely in contradiction to what Je Tsonkapa himself instructed and followed by the mainstream Gelugpa Society. His Holiness was ironic in his remark, ”if ever you receive a request for obituary prayer for the death of the dharma protector Kalarupa,, only then we Gelupas need to look for a new one, until then there is no need for a new Dharmapala. Je Rinpoche gave the responsibility to one who is perfectly able, trustworthy and who can do the job properly”. Moreover, it is a disgrace to dismiss him from the job and find a replacement like Shugden whose nature is shrouded in mystery and never-ending controversy. If Doegyal were entrusted with a role of importance, at least, somewhere in the writings of the great Gelukpa teachers, they ought to have mentioned about it. But, we found nothing. In addition, when we look at the generations of great Geluk lamas, starting from the time of the great Fifth Dalai Lama, 6th Dalai Lama, the 7th Dalai lama, his tutor, Trichen Ngawang chokden, his disciple chankya Rolpai Dorjee, Thugyen choeky Nyima, the 8th Dalai lama Jamphel Gyatso, Nyulchu Dharmapada, Penchen Tenpai Wangchuk, the 13th Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai lama are extremely critical of