09. Jan 2010
The Dalai Lama defends his stance on Shugden worship
(Tibet Post) Before a ceremony in Bodhgaya, the Dalai Lama spoke briefly about the Shugden/Dolgyal controversy. He advised his devotees to resist the worship of Shugden/Dolgyal as a potentially divisive practice, which he claimed would be "harmful to the teacher-disciple relationship". He explained to his Chinese devotees: "In Taiwan and China, the Dolgyal followers are trying to have influence with the help and support of Chinese government. They use it [their practice] as a tool against me, claiming that the Dalai Lama was censoring them. When some Tibetan monasteries tried to stop the practice for a while, the Chinese government didn't allow them, and then slowly it became a political issue".