Western Shugden Society - Aims

Aims

According to its website the WSS is an ad hoc coalition of Dorje Shugden practitioners from many different countries. Its aims are fourfold:

  1. To give freedom to practice Dorje Shugden to whoever wishes to rely upon this Deity.
  2. To stop completely the discrimination between Shugden people and non-Shugden practitioners.
  3. To allow all Shugden monks and nuns who have been expelled from their monasteries and nunneries to return to their monasteries and nunneries where they should receive the same material and spiritual rights as the non-Shugden practitioners.
  4. That the Dalai Lama tell in writing to the Tibetan community throughout the world that they should practically apply the above three points.

The WSS states four reasons for protesting, using four slogans:

  1. "Dalai Lama, Give Religious Freedom" - The WSS claim the ban interefers with religious freedom.
  2. "Dalai Lama, Stop Lying" - The WSS accuse the Dalai Lama of lying for a number of reasons.
  3. "Hypocrisy" - The WSS claim that the Dalai Lama is a hypocrite, inflicting human rights abuses while lecturing on human rights and religious freedom.
  4. "Ostracism" - The WSS claim that the ban is creating untouchables within the Tibetan community.

The WSS website offers little information about the structure or size of the group. All group membership entails is to be sympathetic to the aims of the WSS.

The WSS states that it is independent of any other groups. Protesters representing the WSS at demonstrations in 2008 were principally Western Buddhists and Tibetans living in the West, affiliated with various groups who practice Dorje Shugden including the NKT and others such as students from Dagom Tensung Ling and Gaden Samdrupling, Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in the United States. Some of the people who took part in these demonstrations were ordained monks and nuns, both Western and Tibetan.

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