I wonder what it means “to criticize the Dalai Lama”. In the old Forum I more than once said that I asked the question directly to a high Lama, one of our present day lineage holders, and he clearly answered that we definitely can say that what the Dalai Lama is doing is wrong.

Because it is wrong, there is no way to turn such deeds into good deeds in the public eye, because by doing so we are jeopardizing the basic teachings of all Buddhas of the three times, whose main function is to teach us “what to adopt and what to abandon”. So if you start teaching the world that what the Buddha stated as wrong is right … what a disaster, what a loss for the world. You are destroying the basic knowledge, the basic correct view of our Buddhist teachings.

There is something that is correct and Buddhist: to tell the world that what the Dalai Lama is doing is wrong … but that we don´t hate him for that, we love him and wish him well.

There is no danger for anybody in these simple actions: to acknowlegde his wrongdoings and to declare our love and compassion and best of wishes for him. This would be a phenomenal way of showing how a Buddhist responds to aggression.

Whereas to try to tell the world that what he is doing is very fine because of … whatever … higher purpose … testing our patience … whatever … now this is dangerous, this is a treacherous path to walk.

If you don´t want to even tell the world that he is acting in a very wrong way, that is fine, keep quiet. But do not confuse the mass of beings that need clear guidance about what is right and wrong, this is dangerous for them … and for yourself.

I wish you the best, Rodrigo. May your excellent intentions meet with excellent external actions.

First and foremost the Dalai Lama explicitly says that the ban is his ban, that he is the one who issued the ban, he is the one who maintains the ban, he is the one who enforces the ban and tries to do it in an international scale. All of these are important points in the world scene, politically, from the point of view of human rights. He is responsible for all the attacks to families and individuals both lay and monastic in the last decades.

A second most important point is the explicit rejection of his root Lama and his lineage Teachers.

A third most important point is the explicit injonction to all Budhists who ever were in this lineage to break samaya with their own Teachers and lineage Lamas.

A fourth most important point is the explicit reason given this time for the ban: the defense of the Rig Med school of Tibetan Buddhism, as opposed to the traditional Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyud and Gelug schools. It is our duty to never stop explaining the meaning of this specific matter to the world at large and to future practitioners in particular.

The enforcement of a Rig Med school is the opposite of tolerance, the opposite of the respect of differences among equals, it’s the enforcement of one school over all others, destroying de facto their own uniqueness, their own genious, their own precious traditions.

This is a ban that proclaims intolerance of what is different and enforces the involontary equalization of all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. This point is so important because it shows that the Dalai Lama is enacting a projection of his own faults onto others, accusing the pure Gelugpas of sectarianism, the very error and the very wrong behaviour he is having himself.

Finally, he definitely destroys any idea of democratic rule for the Tibetans, proclaiming that he is the law, and in no uncertain terms giving a warning that sounds, in view of the unfortunate attacks on persons and institutions that have been performed so far because of his injonctions, a warning that sounds more like a threat: Meanwhile after I imposed ban on it, many Tibetans in Tibet followed properly. As a result, all different monasteries and sects are in harmony and law-abiding, and the monasteries begun to have harmony with their patrons – many has told me. Therefore all of you here must bear in mind and be careful.

So please let’s circulate this document and include our analysis when circulating it. The world needs to know that not all Buddhists have problems of intolerance and human rights abuse while reciting sermons with the sacred words of Lord Buddha’s compassion.

Our compassion and love toward the Dalai Lama are unflinching, and we need to say this to the world too.