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		<title>By: Thomas Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-5/#comment-212173</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why would a Muslim by birth do such a thing?

You know they say, not all Muslims are Terrorist, but all Terrorist are Muslims. He cannot be a Buddhist.

So what is he?

Why not ask the Teachers what they say?

Even if one has already stated by his rightful actions to disrobe.

Rather than condone this wayward lost soul.

Lost in the luster of Hollywood and fame, his narcissism obtains a new level of the profane.

He will recant and his wax figure in the Madam&#039;s Wax Museum will be melted down for the imposter that he is, and recast into another form.

One he can not obtain, a figure of truth and love, constantly alludes him, does it not, your holiness?

You know what I think? I think we are getting his goat and that why he gloats like a banshee raving from one end of the Indian Sub Continent to the other side of China.

He screams and moans like a Hungry Ghost.

Don&#039;t you think ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why would a Muslim by birth do such a thing?</p>
<p>You know they say, not all Muslims are Terrorist, but all Terrorist are Muslims. He cannot be a Buddhist.</p>
<p>So what is he?</p>
<p>Why not ask the Teachers what they say?</p>
<p>Even if one has already stated by his rightful actions to disrobe.</p>
<p>Rather than condone this wayward lost soul.</p>
<p>Lost in the luster of Hollywood and fame, his narcissism obtains a new level of the profane.</p>
<p>He will recant and his wax figure in the Madam&#039;s Wax Museum will be melted down for the imposter that he is, and recast into another form.</p>
<p>One he can not obtain, a figure of truth and love, constantly alludes him, does it not, your holiness?</p>
<p>You know what I think? I think we are getting his goat and that why he gloats like a banshee raving from one end of the Indian Sub Continent to the other side of China.</p>
<p>He screams and moans like a Hungry Ghost.</p>
<p>Don&#039;t you think ?</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-5/#comment-212172</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Democracy is not a spectator activity, together we rise and divided we fail.

Together! Our Accumulated Merit Will Become The Field.

Imagine? If you dare!

The Dalia Lama lies and perverts even in the place where Lord Buddha obtained enlightenment.

How desperate can one be? He disgraces not only himself, but all of Buddhism,in just one speech.

Profanity incarnate!

He actually declares that his two teachers gave him persmission to Ban Shugden and attempt to outcast millions of practioners, worldwide on sacred ground.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democracy is not a spectator activity, together we rise and divided we fail.</p>
<p>Together! Our Accumulated Merit Will Become The Field.</p>
<p>Imagine? If you dare!</p>
<p>The Dalia Lama lies and perverts even in the place where Lord Buddha obtained enlightenment.</p>
<p>How desperate can one be? He disgraces not only himself, but all of Buddhism,in just one speech.</p>
<p>Profanity incarnate!</p>
<p>He actually declares that his two teachers gave him persmission to Ban Shugden and attempt to outcast millions of practioners, worldwide on sacred ground.</p>
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		<title>By: william</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-5/#comment-212170</link>
		<dc:creator>william</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for the refreshing article, next time mention the feudal system the Lama enjoyed under his absolute rule prior to being ousted by the Chinese.  And don&#039;t forget to mention the fact that the Dalai Lama is only fighting for his own return to absolute temporal power as head of the Tibet Lamas theocracy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for the refreshing article, next time mention the feudal system the Lama enjoyed under his absolute rule prior to being ousted by the Chinese.  And don&#39;t forget to mention the fact that the Dalai Lama is only fighting for his own return to absolute temporal power as head of the Tibet Lamas theocracy.</p>
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		<title>By: w.d.</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-2/#comment-212171</link>
		<dc:creator>w.d.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i thought the article was to soft.  and i&#039;m not chinese</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i thought the article was to soft.  and i&#039;m not chinese</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-1/#comment-212169</link>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i will do the same for you</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i will do the same for you</p>
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		<title>By: william downey</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-1/#comment-212168</link>
		<dc:creator>william downey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thank you, finally someone mentions the feudal society Tibetans lived under during the theocratic regime of the Tibetan Lamas under the Dalai Lama.  the article is also missing out on this question, what has the Dalai Lama achieved with the tens of millions of dollars he has collected through his free Tibet movement?  Since when was any genuine spiritual teacher a political leader? and he was head of an absolute regime, no democracy in pre chinese tibet.  i&#039;m not saying china is any better, but the chinese leaders are not portraying themselves as saints.  Buddha left the kingdom he was born into to seek enlightenment, dalai lama has had his kingdom forcibly removed and has spent the last half of a century trying to get it back, and selling alot of books of his watered down spirituality along the way</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thank you, finally someone mentions the feudal society Tibetans lived under during the theocratic regime of the Tibetan Lamas under the Dalai Lama.  the article is also missing out on this question, what has the Dalai Lama achieved with the tens of millions of dollars he has collected through his free Tibet movement?  Since when was any genuine spiritual teacher a political leader? and he was head of an absolute regime, no democracy in pre chinese tibet.  i&#039;m not saying china is any better, but the chinese leaders are not portraying themselves as saints.  Buddha left the kingdom he was born into to seek enlightenment, dalai lama has had his kingdom forcibly removed and has spent the last half of a century trying to get it back, and selling alot of books of his watered down spirituality along the way</p>
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		<title>By: Irony</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-1/#comment-212167</link>
		<dc:creator>Irony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As sad as thinking that Quebec belongs to Canada.</description>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-5/#comment-212166</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you feeble or unable to read the facts?
His myth has been shattered and he has no army except for his 145,000 former serfs parading their former Master around as a God King is disgusting and unpatriotic.
Two books are now available to read and educate youself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you feeble or unable to read the facts?<br />
His myth has been shattered and he has no army except for his 145,000 former serfs parading their former Master around as a God King is disgusting and unpatriotic.<br />
Two books are now available to read and educate youself.</p>
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		<title>By: bhanks</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-5/#comment-212165</link>
		<dc:creator>bhanks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I find it sad that one can be so judgmental and ignorant. When one writes an article, perhaps at least a little research should be done. In this article, several contradictions are made about His Holiness. Most notably about how the Dalai Lama is too dogmatic, then suddenly he is not dogmatic enough. Secondly, as far as his leadership is concerned, as DJ Clawson said, he is no longer the leader of Tibet. He relinquished that title some time ago. DJ Clawson also clears up the vegetarian issue. The beauty of Buddhism is that it can be tailored to what you believe. Buddhist precepts are not commandments, they are guidelines for living. It has been said by His Holiness to take what is useful to you and discard what is not. I commend the Dalai Lama for what he has done to keep things non-violent when he was still the leader of Tibet. Granted he hasn&#8217;t removed China&#8217;s tyranny over Tibet, but he has held true to his beliefs and to Buddhist teachings. What would you have him do? Should he march his Tibetan &#8220;army&#8221; to their certain deaths by starting a conflict he and everyone knows his cannot win? No leader worth their weight in salt would order such a foolish and suicidal act.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find it sad that one can be so judgmental and ignorant. When one writes an article, perhaps at least a little research should be done. In this article, several contradictions are made about His Holiness. Most notably about how the Dalai Lama is too dogmatic, then suddenly he is not dogmatic enough. Secondly, as far as his leadership is concerned, as DJ Clawson said, he is no longer the leader of Tibet. He relinquished that title some time ago. DJ Clawson also clears up the vegetarian issue. The beauty of Buddhism is that it can be tailored to what you believe. Buddhist precepts are not commandments, they are guidelines for living. It has been said by His Holiness to take what is useful to you and discard what is not. I commend the Dalai Lama for what he has done to keep things non-violent when he was still the leader of Tibet. Granted he hasn&rsquo;t removed China&rsquo;s tyranny over Tibet, but he has held true to his beliefs and to Buddhist teachings. What would you have him do? Should he march his Tibetan &ldquo;army&rdquo; to their certain deaths by starting a conflict he and everyone knows his cannot win? No leader worth their weight in salt would order such a foolish and suicidal act.</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212164</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The sixteenth Karmapa led the opposition to the United Party, serving as spiritual advisor to a group of refugees from thirteen resettlement camps in India and one in Nepal&#8212;the &#8220;Fourteen Settlements&#8221; group&#8212;thus earning the enmity of the Dalai Lama&#8217;s ministers in Dharamsala. Under the Karmapa&#8217;s leadership, the opposition group succeeded in stopping the religious consolidation plan, and in the mid-seventies, the United Party closed up shop. But apparently ministers in Dharamsala were looking to avenge their political defeat. In 1977, an assassin claiming to be working for the Tibetan exile administration shot and killed the political head of the Fourteen Settlements, Gungthang Tsultrim. As Curren writes, &#8220;When apprehended in Kathmandu, the murderer, Amdo Rekhang Tenzin, told the Royal Nepalese Police that the Tibetan exile government had paid him three hundred thousand rupees (about thirty-five thousand dollars) to assassinate Gungthang. Even more shocking, the hit man claimed that Dharamsala offered him a larger bounty to kill the sixteenth Karmapa.&#8221;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The sixteenth Karmapa led the opposition to the United Party, serving as spiritual advisor to a group of refugees from thirteen resettlement camps in India and one in Nepal&mdash;the &ldquo;Fourteen Settlements&rdquo; group&mdash;thus earning the enmity of the Dalai Lama&rsquo;s ministers in Dharamsala. Under the Karmapa&rsquo;s leadership, the opposition group succeeded in stopping the religious consolidation plan, and in the mid-seventies, the United Party closed up shop. But apparently ministers in Dharamsala were looking to avenge their political defeat. In 1977, an assassin claiming to be working for the Tibetan exile administration shot and killed the political head of the Fourteen Settlements, Gungthang Tsultrim. As Curren writes, &ldquo;When apprehended in Kathmandu, the murderer, Amdo Rekhang Tenzin, told the Royal Nepalese Police that the Tibetan exile government had paid him three hundred thousand rupees (about thirty-five thousand dollars) to assassinate Gungthang. Even more shocking, the hit man claimed that Dharamsala offered him a larger bounty to kill the sixteenth Karmapa.&rdquo;</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212163</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Curren&#8217;s account of the United Party initiative will be shocking to many readers. The United Party was a plan run by the Dalai Lama&#8217;s brother Gyalo Thondup to unite all Tibetans, regardless of their region or religious affiliation, into a coherent group able to stand together against the Chinese. The most controversial part of the plan was a scheme to combine the four Buddhist schools and the Bon religion&#8212;governed separately for more than five hundred years back in Tibet &#8212;under a single administration led by the Dalai Lama. &#8220;When word of the United Party&#8217;s religious reform got out in 1964, the exiled government was unprepared for the angry opposition that leaders of the religious schools expressed. To them, this unification plan appeared as a thinly disguised scheme for the exile government to confiscate the monasteries that dozens of lamas had begun to re-establish in exile with funds they had raised themselves.&#8221;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Curren&rsquo;s account of the United Party initiative will be shocking to many readers. The United Party was a plan run by the Dalai Lama&rsquo;s brother Gyalo Thondup to unite all Tibetans, regardless of their region or religious affiliation, into a coherent group able to stand together against the Chinese. The most controversial part of the plan was a scheme to combine the four Buddhist schools and the Bon religion&mdash;governed separately for more than five hundred years back in Tibet &mdash;under a single administration led by the Dalai Lama. &ldquo;When word of the United Party&rsquo;s religious reform got out in 1964, the exiled government was unprepared for the angry opposition that leaders of the religious schools expressed. To them, this unification plan appeared as a thinly disguised scheme for the exile government to confiscate the monasteries that dozens of lamas had begun to re-establish in exile with funds they had raised themselves.&rdquo;</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212162</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of this book&#8217;s most valuable achievements is to show, for perhaps the first time in English, how the complex sectarian conflicts of Old Tibet followed the lamas when they fled into exile in 1959. At first, faced with the Chinese invasion in the fifties and early sixties, Tibetans experienced a period of unity and the Karmapa and Dalai Lama enjoyed a close friendship. But in exile, things changed. &#8220;Hundreds of years of habit would not die so easily,&#8221; Curren writes, &#8220;and after a few months in India, competition between the administrations of the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa resurfaced. The Dalai Lama and his ministers had just lost their country. In exile, they wanted to create a unified Tibetan community. To achieve this new unity, exile leaders in their new headquarters in the Indian hill-town of Dharamsala began making plans to extend their control over the five religious schools of Tibet .&#8221;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of this book&rsquo;s most valuable achievements is to show, for perhaps the first time in English, how the complex sectarian conflicts of Old Tibet followed the lamas when they fled into exile in 1959. At first, faced with the Chinese invasion in the fifties and early sixties, Tibetans experienced a period of unity and the Karmapa and Dalai Lama enjoyed a close friendship. But in exile, things changed. &ldquo;Hundreds of years of habit would not die so easily,&rdquo; Curren writes, &ldquo;and after a few months in India, competition between the administrations of the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa resurfaced. The Dalai Lama and his ministers had just lost their country. In exile, they wanted to create a unified Tibetan community. To achieve this new unity, exile leaders in their new headquarters in the Indian hill-town of Dharamsala began making plans to extend their control over the five religious schools of Tibet .&rdquo;</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212161</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Buddha&#8217;s Not Smiling&quot;: Uncovering Corruption at the Heart of Tibetan Buddhism Today, by Erik D. Curren. The review was written by Lama Karma Wangchuk.

History belies the Shangri-La image of Tibetan lamas and their followers living together in mutual tolerance and non-violent goodwill. Indeed, the situation was quite different. Old Tibet was much more like Europe during the religious wars of the Counter-reformation than a neighborhood in Berkeley, California where synagogue, mosque, church and dharma center make cozy neighbors&#8230;.For hundreds of years in Tibet, lay followers of each religious school clashed with each other for control of the government of central Tibet or rule over provincial areas. Lamas had to defend their monasteries and landholdings from supporters of the other schools as well as from the central government &#8230;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Buddha&rsquo;s Not Smiling&quot;: Uncovering Corruption at the Heart of Tibetan Buddhism Today, by Erik D. Curren. The review was written by Lama Karma Wangchuk.</p>
<p>History belies the Shangri-La image of Tibetan lamas and their followers living together in mutual tolerance and non-violent goodwill. Indeed, the situation was quite different. Old Tibet was much more like Europe during the religious wars of the Counter-reformation than a neighborhood in Berkeley, California where synagogue, mosque, church and dharma center make cozy neighbors&hellip;.For hundreds of years in Tibet, lay followers of each religious school clashed with each other for control of the government of central Tibet or rule over provincial areas. Lamas had to defend their monasteries and landholdings from supporters of the other schools as well as from the central government &hellip;</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212160</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pardon me! I rather imagine that if people look behind the myth of a peaceful old lama sitting on the hill to the facts that this Old Man is anything but a peace loving lama, they would find a brigade of facts that indicate he has not only ran a theocratic nightmare for the Tibetans to perform as Serfs and Slaves for hundreds of years, He sent untold thousands to their deaths as insurgents against the Chinese unto this day.
He is a troll and awaits you under the bridge to steal your gold and your souls with his mockery of Lord Buddha&#039;s actual Teachings.
 He is not the Pope, nor is he a holy lama. Buddhas do not exclude others for their beliefs, nor do they incite racism and violence.
This man has been conviceted of Religious Persecution by the High Courts of New Delhi. Read the book,&quot; The Great Deception&quot; The High Lama Policy,and then tell me what you think of your lama.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pardon me! I rather imagine that if people look behind the myth of a peaceful old lama sitting on the hill to the facts that this Old Man is anything but a peace loving lama, they would find a brigade of facts that indicate he has not only ran a theocratic nightmare for the Tibetans to perform as Serfs and Slaves for hundreds of years, He sent untold thousands to their deaths as insurgents against the Chinese unto this day.<br />
He is a troll and awaits you under the bridge to steal your gold and your souls with his mockery of Lord Buddha&#039;s actual Teachings.<br />
 He is not the Pope, nor is he a holy lama. Buddhas do not exclude others for their beliefs, nor do they incite racism and violence.<br />
This man has been conviceted of Religious Persecution by the High Courts of New Delhi. Read the book,&quot; The Great Deception&quot; The High Lama Policy,and then tell me what you think of your lama.</p>
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		<title>By: JRC</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212159</link>
		<dc:creator>JRC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;His exoticism marks him as authentic, and subjecting his teachings to critical scrutiny is beside the point, as there is never any chance we are going to engage his teachings seriously enough to be challenged by them.&quot;

The author is not challenged by the Dalai Lama because he is from a peace-loving, diversity-embracing country like Canada, so the message seems normal. But the doctrine of universal compassion is very needed in the world as there are countries like the United States, North Korea, Iraq and Pakistan that embrace international aggression, encourage violence, and where narrow-minded, fanatically conservative, religious citizens that can choose only one, or at most, two very similar right-wing political parties are the norm.

Please keep spreading the word, Tibet. Canada joins you in your efforts to shake the foundations of militant tyranny with open non-violent conversation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;His exoticism marks him as authentic, and subjecting his teachings to critical scrutiny is beside the point, as there is never any chance we are going to engage his teachings seriously enough to be challenged by them.&quot;</p>
<p>The author is not challenged by the Dalai Lama because he is from a peace-loving, diversity-embracing country like Canada, so the message seems normal. But the doctrine of universal compassion is very needed in the world as there are countries like the United States, North Korea, Iraq and Pakistan that embrace international aggression, encourage violence, and where narrow-minded, fanatically conservative, religious citizens that can choose only one, or at most, two very similar right-wing political parties are the norm.</p>
<p>Please keep spreading the word, Tibet. Canada joins you in your efforts to shake the foundations of militant tyranny with open non-violent conversation.</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
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		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No point in saying anything else about Mr. Dalia,he has cooked his Goose and Our Court Victory will soon reveal the facts and more facts about this man&#039;s failings as a human and a lama.
The more he squirms, the more he pulls himself into the Quicksand he chose to choke on his own bad deeds, as with quicksand, you can only breathe so long with the mud in your mouth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No point in saying anything else about Mr. Dalia,he has cooked his Goose and Our Court Victory will soon reveal the facts and more facts about this man&#8217;s failings as a human and a lama.<br />
The more he squirms, the more he pulls himself into the Quicksand he chose to choke on his own bad deeds, as with quicksand, you can only breathe so long with the mud in your mouth.</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212157</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#8216;When in 1976, Gungthang Tsultrim, the political head of the alliance, was murdered and the assassin confessed to operate on orders from the Tibetan cabinet. Hired for the job, he was paid rupees three hundred thousand by the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala. The Tibetan government-in-exile had also offered him more money for eliminating the 16th Karmapa, he confessed.&#8217;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lsquo;When in 1976, Gungthang Tsultrim, the political head of the alliance, was murdered and the assassin confessed to operate on orders from the Tibetan cabinet. Hired for the job, he was paid rupees three hundred thousand by the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala. The Tibetan government-in-exile had also offered him more money for eliminating the 16th Karmapa, he confessed.&rsquo;</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
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		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#8216;In 1964, the government-in-exile of the Dalai Lama wanted to introduce social, economic and religious reforms to the recently evicted Tibetans. Gyalo Thondrub, the Dalai Lama&#8217;s audacious brother, decided that the best answer to Mao&#8217;s invasion and destruction of their country was to adapt Tibet and Tibetan policy in exile to the new Communist realities. He boldly proposed to abolish the old Buddhist schools, to do away with the rich, religious show, and thus bring the high lamas to the ground. &#8220;No more thrones, rituals, or gold brocades,&#8221; he was rumoured to have uttered. The spiritual hierarchies of the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and the corollary sub-orders fell victim to slander and reproach. His words struck fear into the lamas&#8217; hearts. As more details of the elaborate plan began to emerge, it became clear that a coup against three of the schools was being hatched. The new religious body that would replace the traditional lineages was to be controlled by the Gelugpa hierarchy. The worried lamas rushed to Karmapa for help.&#8217;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lsquo;In 1964, the government-in-exile of the Dalai Lama wanted to introduce social, economic and religious reforms to the recently evicted Tibetans. Gyalo Thondrub, the Dalai Lama&rsquo;s audacious brother, decided that the best answer to Mao&rsquo;s invasion and destruction of their country was to adapt Tibet and Tibetan policy in exile to the new Communist realities. He boldly proposed to abolish the old Buddhist schools, to do away with the rich, religious show, and thus bring the high lamas to the ground. &ldquo;No more thrones, rituals, or gold brocades,&rdquo; he was rumoured to have uttered. The spiritual hierarchies of the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and the corollary sub-orders fell victim to slander and reproach. His words struck fear into the lamas&rsquo; hearts. As more details of the elaborate plan began to emerge, it became clear that a coup against three of the schools was being hatched. The new religious body that would replace the traditional lineages was to be controlled by the Gelugpa hierarchy. The worried lamas rushed to Karmapa for help.&rsquo;</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212153</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>US STATE DEPARTMENT ARCHIVES

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.state.gov/www/abo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.state.gov/www/abo&lt;/a&gt; ut_state/history/vol_xxx/337 _343.html

Find the truth and read the actual archives of the CIA State Department for yourselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US STATE DEPARTMENT ARCHIVES</p>
<p><a href="http://www.state.gov/www/abo" rel="nofollow">http://www.state.gov/www/abo</a> ut_state/history/vol_xxx/337 _343.html</p>
<p>Find the truth and read the actual archives of the CIA State Department for yourselves.</p>
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		<title>By: Thokme</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212148</link>
		<dc:creator>Thokme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think there are a few misunderstandings as to what the dalai lama wants and has done.

1.  Dalai lama is only asking for autonomy, not independence.
2. Dalai lama is willing to become a Chinese citizen, he has said it many times on BBC, CNN etc.
3. He supported the Beijing olympics to the end, even told his people to restrain from protesting.
4. He has established hundreds of schools, settlements, libraries, and hospitals in exile.
5. Always preached non violence, even threatened to resign office if Tibetans became violent.

As far as i know he is the best ally China has, i don&#039;t think when he passes away there will be anyone who could have the moral authority to control the Tibetans from resorting to violence. Till now it has been a passive movement.
 I don&#039;t know what more he can do to please the Chinese leadership in Beijing. All concessions are made from the Tibetan side.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think there are a few misunderstandings as to what the dalai lama wants and has done.</p>
<p>1.  Dalai lama is only asking for autonomy, not independence.<br />
2. Dalai lama is willing to become a Chinese citizen, he has said it many times on BBC, CNN etc.<br />
3. He supported the Beijing olympics to the end, even told his people to restrain from protesting.<br />
4. He has established hundreds of schools, settlements, libraries, and hospitals in exile.<br />
5. Always preached non violence, even threatened to resign office if Tibetans became violent.</p>
<p>As far as i know he is the best ally China has, i don&#39;t think when he passes away there will be anyone who could have the moral authority to control the Tibetans from resorting to violence. Till now it has been a passive movement.<br />
 I don&#39;t know what more he can do to please the Chinese leadership in Beijing. All concessions are made from the Tibetan side.</p>
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		<title>By: Ping Lee</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212155</link>
		<dc:creator>Ping Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Attention Kasag!

China is supporting the practice and spread of Dorje Shugden&#8217;s lineage
within China and Tibet itself. No one can stop that. Not the Dalai Lama, not his exile government, not the various scattered Dharma centers of the four schools of Buddhism throughout the world.Eventually their protests of Dorje Shugden will be tantamount to protesting against one of the policies of the Chinese Government. They will not take lightly to that.

Ironically the more the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Government in exile
suppresses Dorje Shugden, it increases the Chinese government&#8217;s promotion of the practice. The Dalai Lama and Tibetan government cannot override, overwhelm, outspeak, have more influence in the world or have more influence over than the Chinese government ever. If he can, Tibet would have been free already. He is already in his mid seventies and China is growing stronger and will reduce it Co2 footprint 45% by 2020.
What does the lama really do to help the environment, really?
Whatever Nechung oracle has said through the Dalai Lama regarding
independence has had zero effect. Zero results. NO INDEPENDENCE . NECHUNG HAS BEEN WRONG.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attention Kasag!</p>
<p>China is supporting the practice and spread of Dorje Shugden&rsquo;s lineage<br />
within China and Tibet itself. No one can stop that. Not the Dalai Lama, not his exile government, not the various scattered Dharma centers of the four schools of Buddhism throughout the world.Eventually their protests of Dorje Shugden will be tantamount to protesting against one of the policies of the Chinese Government. They will not take lightly to that.</p>
<p>Ironically the more the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Government in exile<br />
suppresses Dorje Shugden, it increases the Chinese government&rsquo;s promotion of the practice. The Dalai Lama and Tibetan government cannot override, overwhelm, outspeak, have more influence in the world or have more influence over than the Chinese government ever. If he can, Tibet would have been free already. He is already in his mid seventies and China is growing stronger and will reduce it Co2 footprint 45% by 2020.<br />
What does the lama really do to help the environment, really?<br />
Whatever Nechung oracle has said through the Dalai Lama regarding<br />
independence has had zero effect. Zero results. NO INDEPENDENCE . NECHUNG HAS BEEN WRONG.</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212154</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Larger Power than any of us, also are working in the background and we&#039;ll see what he meant, when he accused the Indian Judicials of lining their pockets with bribes.

90 billion in trade between China and India is no small thing.
No doubt the physical comfort of Tibetans is far superior than when a lama pretended he could run a country.
Sooner or later even the descendants of these Serfs wil figure it out and sue the Dalia Lama for enslaving millions as he now has billions. He should compensate them the same as we should compensate the African Americans in America..
It might be interesting if the Refugees wised up and filed a Class Action lawsuit against him and share the wealth directly.
Imagine a $100,000.00 per person might enlist major support amongst the refugees. Who never imagined they were worthy and deserving enough to be as an equal instead of an inferior.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Larger Power than any of us, also are working in the background and we&#039;ll see what he meant, when he accused the Indian Judicials of lining their pockets with bribes.</p>
<p>90 billion in trade between China and India is no small thing.<br />
No doubt the physical comfort of Tibetans is far superior than when a lama pretended he could run a country.<br />
Sooner or later even the descendants of these Serfs wil figure it out and sue the Dalia Lama for enslaving millions as he now has billions. He should compensate them the same as we should compensate the African Americans in America..<br />
It might be interesting if the Refugees wised up and filed a Class Action lawsuit against him and share the wealth directly.<br />
Imagine a $100,000.00 per person might enlist major support amongst the refugees. Who never imagined they were worthy and deserving enough to be as an equal instead of an inferior.</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212152</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Besides thokme, I am retired and can spend all day exposing this Trickster, this Charlatan.

We printed a book , &quot;The Great Deception&quot; high lama policyby the Western Shugden Society.

Get a copy and get back to me if you like it. We all are disappointed when our heroe fall off the pedestal. In this  case we have to drag him through the mud, just to get him off his trip of alienating Buddhist is a first and will be the last.
This book, like it or not, is heartbreaking and sad that such a man has fooled and entire world with his charade of actually being a Holy Lama is the crulest joke of all,
It is only seven bucks and several hundred pages of riveting facts and his many farces.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westernshugdensociety.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.westernshugdensociety.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Besides thokme, I am retired and can spend all day exposing this Trickster, this Charlatan.</p>
<p>We printed a book , &quot;The Great Deception&quot; high lama policyby the Western Shugden Society.</p>
<p>Get a copy and get back to me if you like it. We all are disappointed when our heroe fall off the pedestal. In this  case we have to drag him through the mud, just to get him off his trip of alienating Buddhist is a first and will be the last.<br />
This book, like it or not, is heartbreaking and sad that such a man has fooled and entire world with his charade of actually being a Holy Lama is the crulest joke of all,<br />
It is only seven bucks and several hundred pages of riveting facts and his many farces.<br />
<a href="http://www.westernshugdensociety.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.westernshugdensociety.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212151</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well go ahead and commit suicide and attack China. See where it will get you, except dead.
Dalia is a liar and you have no idea what schemes he&#039;s been pulling on you for years.
Why not sue him for enslaving and entire people for hundreds of years as serfs and slaves. He can afford to pay you descendants Billions in compensation for being such fools and letting him ruin you home, but never paid you a buck for being his slaves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well go ahead and commit suicide and attack China. See where it will get you, except dead.<br />
Dalia is a liar and you have no idea what schemes he&#039;s been pulling on you for years.<br />
Why not sue him for enslaving and entire people for hundreds of years as serfs and slaves. He can afford to pay you descendants Billions in compensation for being such fools and letting him ruin you home, but never paid you a buck for being his slaves.</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212150</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cannot spell Pilgrim. Here is a new word that you will understand. Go home where you belong. What kind of cowards hide behind a lama&#039;s skirt. No wonder you lost your land, only cowards run away.........................
THOMAS DAVID CANADA
CEDAR CITY, UTAH
USA
Come on down and we&#039;ll check your skin or better yet, We&#039;ll just deport you back to China</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cannot spell Pilgrim. Here is a new word that you will understand. Go home where you belong. What kind of cowards hide behind a lama&#039;s skirt. No wonder you lost your land, only cowards run away&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br />
THOMAS DAVID CANADA<br />
CEDAR CITY, UTAH<br />
USA<br />
Come on down and we&#039;ll check your skin or better yet, We&#039;ll just deport you back to China</p>
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		<title>By: Thokme</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212149</link>
		<dc:creator>Thokme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thomas David GET A JOB!
if this is your job, then tell your employer that Dalai lama is a friend not foe. I know your real name probably starts with;  Xing Ming or Peng..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thomas David GET A JOB!<br />
if this is your job, then tell your employer that Dalai lama is a friend not foe. I know your real name probably starts with;  Xing Ming or Peng..</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212147</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One point two million you say, died at the hands of the PRC!
I&#039;ve heard that number before. If it is true, then the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of your lama. It was he that was enlisted by the CIA for only $180,000.00 per year to break his vows as a monk and sent how many to their futile death. I.2 puts him up there with Himmler of the SS.
So the Chinese say they lost 40,000 soldiers in Tibet. That would be quite an upset for the Tibetan insurgents to lose over half the estimated population and now it is over 2.5 million Tibetans living in China. What a recovery of population in less than 50 years doubling the war torn Tibetans population and now they live to be 67 instead of the 34 years under the  Serf Institution. What can I say, but your numbers are incorrect and how would you know anyway? Who was keeping count, the lama himself.
Well this Clown as lied long enough and divided the Nations and their Peoples with his shennaningans!
 The Chinese have rebuilt 2,000 monasteries and the Potala. The  people have many more benefits now, whereas before they had none whatsoever</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One point two million you say, died at the hands of the PRC!<br />
I&#039;ve heard that number before. If it is true, then the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of your lama. It was he that was enlisted by the CIA for only $180,000.00 per year to break his vows as a monk and sent how many to their futile death. I.2 puts him up there with Himmler of the SS.<br />
So the Chinese say they lost 40,000 soldiers in Tibet. That would be quite an upset for the Tibetan insurgents to lose over half the estimated population and now it is over 2.5 million Tibetans living in China. What a recovery of population in less than 50 years doubling the war torn Tibetans population and now they live to be 67 instead of the 34 years under the  Serf Institution. What can I say, but your numbers are incorrect and how would you know anyway? Who was keeping count, the lama himself.<br />
Well this Clown as lied long enough and divided the Nations and their Peoples with his shennaningans!<br />
 The Chinese have rebuilt 2,000 monasteries and the Potala. The  people have many more benefits now, whereas before they had none whatsoever</p>
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		<title>By: Jay</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212146</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Firstly Buddhists are not known to be vegetarians. It is the Jains who promoted the idea of vegetarianism which was later picked up by the Hindu&#039;s and Buddhists. Buddha is known to have died from eating pork.

Secondly, how do you fight a 2 million strong Chinese Army which does not believe in Buddhist ideals. 1.2 million Tibetans died during the Khampa rebellion in the 1960&#039;s.  How many Tibetans does that leave? If Tibetans hope to survive as a race then confrontation is out of the question.  By and large, the Dalai Lama has done a good job in providing visibility to the Tibetan cause. Unfortunately Tibet is not Iraq and does not have substantial energy resources.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Firstly Buddhists are not known to be vegetarians. It is the Jains who promoted the idea of vegetarianism which was later picked up by the Hindu&#039;s and Buddhists. Buddha is known to have died from eating pork.</p>
<p>Secondly, how do you fight a 2 million strong Chinese Army which does not believe in Buddhist ideals. 1.2 million Tibetans died during the Khampa rebellion in the 1960&#039;s.  How many Tibetans does that leave? If Tibetans hope to survive as a race then confrontation is out of the question.  By and large, the Dalai Lama has done a good job in providing visibility to the Tibetan cause. Unfortunately Tibet is not Iraq and does not have substantial energy resources.</p>
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		<title>By: divad</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-1/#comment-212141</link>
		<dc:creator>divad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eat your dog &amp; be happy</description>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212145</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We are Western Gulgs!
Descended from Celts and People who do not take it lying down
It is you, who has met your match.

We will Stand The Ground that you descrate with your mockery of Our Democracies with your kashag henchmen,
you call the TGIE are nothing more than a Medieval Band Of Bandits professing principles they cannot even pronounce, let alone envision as a concept that could ever be work in a Serfs Institution. A Bunch of Thieves raking in Billions every year and for what?
The Crescent Moon Revival or just gettig rich and making fools of sincere seekers.
Your sham is an insult to our Democracies and Bill Of Rights.

You Mr. Dalai Lama have lost your sense of boundaries.

We made you and will unmake you.
We are creating a new digital incarnation.
Reserved just for you.
Alas, Yertle The Turtle!
Your view,will soon be on the ground.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are Western Gulgs!<br />
Descended from Celts and People who do not take it lying down<br />
It is you, who has met your match.</p>
<p>We will Stand The Ground that you descrate with your mockery of Our Democracies with your kashag henchmen,<br />
you call the TGIE are nothing more than a Medieval Band Of Bandits professing principles they cannot even pronounce, let alone envision as a concept that could ever be work in a Serfs Institution. A Bunch of Thieves raking in Billions every year and for what?<br />
The Crescent Moon Revival or just gettig rich and making fools of sincere seekers.<br />
Your sham is an insult to our Democracies and Bill Of Rights.</p>
<p>You Mr. Dalai Lama have lost your sense of boundaries.</p>
<p>We made you and will unmake you.<br />
We are creating a new digital incarnation.<br />
Reserved just for you.<br />
Alas, Yertle The Turtle!<br />
Your view,will soon be on the ground.</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-1/#comment-212144</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Then follow your lama home and join the rest of the 3 million Tibetans living in China. Why hang your Lama&#039;s dirty laundry out here in a foreign land?
 Why you would choose to live here rather than Tibet is a mystery to us.
Wake up to the 21st Century and Go Home and Make Your Freedom Just Like Everybody else.
Maybe you do not know how to make Freedom as your grandparent were 95% likely to be serfs and never understood Democracy or Free Thought to Think For Yourselves?
 Well then we will show you and take this back to your Brothers and Sisters in Tibet.
The Ones the Dalai Lam ran away from and abandoned decades ago.
 Maybe he should give up being King and just be a God and Go Home?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Then follow your lama home and join the rest of the 3 million Tibetans living in China. Why hang your Lama&#039;s dirty laundry out here in a foreign land?<br />
 Why you would choose to live here rather than Tibet is a mystery to us.<br />
Wake up to the 21st Century and Go Home and Make Your Freedom Just Like Everybody else.<br />
Maybe you do not know how to make Freedom as your grandparent were 95% likely to be serfs and never understood Democracy or Free Thought to Think For Yourselves?<br />
 Well then we will show you and take this back to your Brothers and Sisters in Tibet.<br />
The Ones the Dalai Lam ran away from and abandoned decades ago.<br />
 Maybe he should give up being King and just be a God and Go Home?</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-1/#comment-212143</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You must be a refugee to be so hungry as to eat your dog and find happiness all alone.
I know it is tough to have life long illusion shattered by the irrefutable logic that peppers your lama like a beef steak.
See the world without the Kamakazi eyes that one should die for their Emperor.
You are free now and can think for yourself and understand the Teaching of Lord Buddha without the political jab.

Eat your dog and be happy. What kind of  thing is that to say to a fellow Canadian saying his mind?
Surely even you can see how trite and inconsequential are your words to waste in this prescious human life?
Maybe it is carry over from a previous life and you were a dog licking your balls to infer such an image for humans is too gross.
Behave yourself!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You must be a refugee to be so hungry as to eat your dog and find happiness all alone.<br />
I know it is tough to have life long illusion shattered by the irrefutable logic that peppers your lama like a beef steak.<br />
See the world without the Kamakazi eyes that one should die for their Emperor.<br />
You are free now and can think for yourself and understand the Teaching of Lord Buddha without the political jab.</p>
<p>Eat your dog and be happy. What kind of  thing is that to say to a fellow Canadian saying his mind?<br />
Surely even you can see how trite and inconsequential are your words to waste in this prescious human life?<br />
Maybe it is carry over from a previous life and you were a dog licking your balls to infer such an image for humans is too gross.<br />
Behave yourself!</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-3/#comment-212142</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Western Shugden Society posted your comment David on their web site. Be strong and stand the ground, We are not the ones one the run.
It is this Bunch of Bandits still trying to give the Immigrants protection from the established order or actually thinking for oneself that frightens these refugees and thier Medieval primitive ways, not to mention their lack or command of the English language always betrays their second grade education, If they were lucky enough to get that much education or even common sense to see for themselves. I cannot believe there has never been a lawsuit filed to be compensated for centuries of domination and slavery. Well the descendants of serfs still think like serfs and take up the back side instead of cashing in on the Dalia Lama&#039;s billions he collects every year,.Just like in the days of old, when all the gold was his from the start.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Western Shugden Society posted your comment David on their web site. Be strong and stand the ground, We are not the ones one the run.<br />
It is this Bunch of Bandits still trying to give the Immigrants protection from the established order or actually thinking for oneself that frightens these refugees and thier Medieval primitive ways, not to mention their lack or command of the English language always betrays their second grade education, If they were lucky enough to get that much education or even common sense to see for themselves. I cannot believe there has never been a lawsuit filed to be compensated for centuries of domination and slavery. Well the descendants of serfs still think like serfs and take up the back side instead of cashing in on the Dalia Lama&#039;s billions he collects every year,.Just like in the days of old, when all the gold was his from the start.</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212140</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tides and Current runs swift and deep
RipTides run rampant,gashing and tear the shallows still murmurs of discontent.
Our Hearts flow Strong and Bright Red,
Pulsing as One, In a Rip Tide of Love,
We will carry the kindneses of Loving Words that Bring Us a Glorious Tomorrow.
Only if All of Us Stand to Create Our Glorious Tomorrow,
no fear, no blackness,no hateful stares.........
Only Lord Buddha&#039;s radiating Love that Unites Us to know ourselves
We Greet Our Actions with Certitude and Solace.
Based Upon Rightful Eight Fold Path,
What else can we do?
But remain True and Steadfast in the Presence of Our Enemies

The Protector warned you, Mr.Norbu!
Now it is too late.
We will Offer you Prayers.
Poor Man!
When did you throw away your integrity?
Want it back?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tides and Current runs swift and deep<br />
RipTides run rampant,gashing and tear the shallows still murmurs of discontent.<br />
Our Hearts flow Strong and Bright Red,<br />
Pulsing as One, In a Rip Tide of Love,<br />
We will carry the kindneses of Loving Words that Bring Us a Glorious Tomorrow.<br />
Only if All of Us Stand to Create Our Glorious Tomorrow,<br />
no fear, no blackness,no hateful stares&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br />
Only Lord Buddha&#039;s radiating Love that Unites Us to know ourselves<br />
We Greet Our Actions with Certitude and Solace.<br />
Based Upon Rightful Eight Fold Path,<br />
What else can we do?<br />
But remain True and Steadfast in the Presence of Our Enemies</p>
<p>The Protector warned you, Mr.Norbu!<br />
Now it is too late.<br />
We will Offer you Prayers.<br />
Poor Man!<br />
When did you throw away your integrity?<br />
Want it back?</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212139</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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All Old People naturally wish to return home before they die.
Take the Lama home and let him spin his mala in the Potala as part of the show. It is the best thing for him and all his adoring cult members might just leave this old man alone. All the adoration has made him quite ill and he needs a rest. As all Old People get confused and say things they would never have said, if you just leave this Old Man alone and find out for yourselves where your salvation lies.
Within!</description>
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All Old People naturally wish to return home before they die.<br />
Take the Lama home and let him spin his mala in the Potala as part of the show. It is the best thing for him and all his adoring cult members might just leave this old man alone. All the adoration has made him quite ill and he needs a rest. As all Old People get confused and say things they would never have said, if you just leave this Old Man alone and find out for yourselves where your salvation lies.<br />
Within!</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212138</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Hindu

The Dalai Lama on Friday hinted that the judiciary was not free from corruption, making the remark in the presence of Supreme Court and Delhi High Court judges.

&#8220;Maybe in the judiciary, some pocket money is working,&#8221; the Tibetan spiritual leader said in response to a question at the 15th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture.

When it was pointed out that senior judges were in the audience, the Dalai Lama said, &#8220;I apologise&#8230; I was too blunt.&#8221;

Asked about the Dalai Lama&#8217;s comments, Delhi High Court Chief Justice A.P. Shah said, &#8220;No, no&#8230; I don&#8217;t think he meant it.&#8221;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Hindu</p>
<p>The Dalai Lama on Friday hinted that the judiciary was not free from corruption, making the remark in the presence of Supreme Court and Delhi High Court judges.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Maybe in the judiciary, some pocket money is working,&rdquo; the Tibetan spiritual leader said in response to a question at the 15th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture.</p>
<p>When it was pointed out that senior judges were in the audience, the Dalai Lama said, &ldquo;I apologise&hellip; I was too blunt.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Asked about the Dalai Lama&rsquo;s comments, Delhi High Court Chief Justice A.P. Shah said, &ldquo;No, no&hellip; I don&rsquo;t think he meant it.&rdquo;</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-1/#comment-212135</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THE ON-GOING HEARINGS TO THE PETITION SUBMITTED BY THE DORJE SHUGDEN SOCIETY, IN THE HIGH COURT OF INDIA.
  Complete Updated Statement on:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dorjeshugden.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.dorjeshugden.com&lt;/a&gt;
forum</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE ON-GOING HEARINGS TO THE PETITION SUBMITTED BY THE DORJE SHUGDEN SOCIETY, IN THE HIGH COURT OF INDIA.<br />
  Complete Updated Statement on:<br />
<a href="http://www.dorjeshugden.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dorjeshugden.com</a><br />
forum</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212137</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>India will Protect her Constitution from all whom break the law and the Dalai Lama broke the laws of India and persecuted the Dorje Shugden Practioners.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>India will Protect her Constitution from all whom break the law and the Dalai Lama broke the laws of India and persecuted the Dorje Shugden Practioners.</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas David Canada</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-4/#comment-212136</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas David Canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pg. 1


THE ON-GOING HEARINGS TO THE PETITION SUBMITTED BY THE DORJE SHUGDEN SOCIETY, IN THE HIGH COURT OF INDIA.
  Complete Updated Statement on:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dorjeshugden.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.dorjeshugden.com&lt;/a&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pg. 1</p>
<p>THE ON-GOING HEARINGS TO THE PETITION SUBMITTED BY THE DORJE SHUGDEN SOCIETY, IN THE HIGH COURT OF INDIA.<br />
  Complete Updated Statement on:<br />
<a href="http://www.dorjeshugden.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.dorjeshugden.com</a><br />
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		<title>By: Parbat</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-3/#comment-212134</link>
		<dc:creator>Parbat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When Indians see that quarreling with China is a vast economic folly, they will lose patience with the Dalai Lama. They will not want to see India&#039;s relations with China messed up by his presence in India. They will understand that three million Tibetans, soon a small minority in Tibet, cannot break away from 1400 million Chinese.

India will ask the Dalai Lama to move. He can go to Canada, which has given him honorary citizenship. Let us see how happy the Westerners are to host the Dalai Lama and his 100,000 followers now in India. The West claims to love Tibet. This is a cost-free game for them, because India bears the whole burden of hosting the Lama and his followers and incurring Chinese hostility.

So I think in the future India will dump the Tibetan cause.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Indians see that quarreling with China is a vast economic folly, they will lose patience with the Dalai Lama. They will not want to see India&#039;s relations with China messed up by his presence in India. They will understand that three million Tibetans, soon a small minority in Tibet, cannot break away from 1400 million Chinese.</p>
<p>India will ask the Dalai Lama to move. He can go to Canada, which has given him honorary citizenship. Let us see how happy the Westerners are to host the Dalai Lama and his 100,000 followers now in India. The West claims to love Tibet. This is a cost-free game for them, because India bears the whole burden of hosting the Lama and his followers and incurring Chinese hostility.</p>
<p>So I think in the future India will dump the Tibetan cause.</p>
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		<title>By: Mary Ryder</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-3/#comment-212133</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary Ryder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Daulat Ram does not seem to understand that China&#039;s hostility towards India has very little to do with the Dalai Lama or the 100,000 Tibetans living in India...but more to do with another rising power in the same hemisphere.
As for the 100,000 Tibetans in India ...there are more Indians in Canada than Tibetans in India....Should we deport all the Indians living in Canada as some were also involved in the terrorist bombings of Canadian planes...and has caused much pain to Canadians.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daulat Ram does not seem to understand that China&#039;s hostility towards India has very little to do with the Dalai Lama or the 100,000 Tibetans living in India&#8230;but more to do with another rising power in the same hemisphere.<br />
As for the 100,000 Tibetans in India &#8230;there are more Indians in Canada than Tibetans in India&#8230;.Should we deport all the Indians living in Canada as some were also involved in the terrorist bombings of Canadian planes&#8230;and has caused much pain to Canadians.</p>
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		<title>By: DAULAT RAM</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-3/#comment-212132</link>
		<dc:creator>DAULAT RAM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My query as an Indian is: how come the Indian government has been so unwise as to give the Dalai Lama permanent asylum in India?  This has brought upon India the bitter hostility of China.

This is the last thing a poor country like India with such a long border with powerful China can afford.  China is allied to Pakistan, moreover, also having very tense relations with India.

I hope the Indian government will now ask the Lama to move to Canada, which has given him honorary citizenship. It is time for some other country to share the burden with India. The Canadians say they love Tibet. Will they accept the 100,000 Tibetans in India?  Let us see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My query as an Indian is: how come the Indian government has been so unwise as to give the Dalai Lama permanent asylum in India?  This has brought upon India the bitter hostility of China.</p>
<p>This is the last thing a poor country like India with such a long border with powerful China can afford.  China is allied to Pakistan, moreover, also having very tense relations with India.</p>
<p>I hope the Indian government will now ask the Lama to move to Canada, which has given him honorary citizenship. It is time for some other country to share the burden with India. The Canadians say they love Tibet. Will they accept the 100,000 Tibetans in India?  Let us see.</p>
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		<title>By: THOMAS DAVID CANADA</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-3/#comment-212130</link>
		<dc:creator>THOMAS DAVID CANADA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our Scientist tell us that all,but three species of mammals, display bisexual and homosexuality exchanges between their sex. Science tells us that the factor of race is so neglible as to be nonexistent within humanity&#039;s shared DNA chain.
The Geonome tells us that all humans alive on the face of the planet today spawn from One Genetic Father, they called Adam.
 So I ask,  why does this Dalai Lama echo Patricarchal Desert People&#039;s God law against something prevalent within his own Monastic Communities or chastise as the Mormons and deny others their choice to choose how they exchange their love is completely between the individuals, not him? He is not the Pope of Anything!
 Why did he incite Racism between the Tibetans and Hans? Billed as distinctly different races,even with the proof of DNA .
 That was until we elected Obama. What could he say?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our Scientist tell us that all,but three species of mammals, display bisexual and homosexuality exchanges between their sex. Science tells us that the factor of race is so neglible as to be nonexistent within humanity&#39;s shared DNA chain.<br />
The Geonome tells us that all humans alive on the face of the planet today spawn from One Genetic Father, they called Adam.<br />
 So I ask,  why does this Dalai Lama echo Patricarchal Desert People&#39;s God law against something prevalent within his own Monastic Communities or chastise as the Mormons and deny others their choice to choose how they exchange their love is completely between the individuals, not him? He is not the Pope of Anything!<br />
 Why did he incite Racism between the Tibetans and Hans? Billed as distinctly different races,even with the proof of DNA .<br />
 That was until we elected Obama. What could he say?</p>
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		<title>By: Mary Ryder</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-3/#comment-212129</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary Ryder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Daulat Ram
If you did some research you would understand that Nehru out of fear towards China was one of the architect for Tibet&#039;s loss to China.
It was also Nehru through his misguided trust towards China and the silly chant of  &quot;Chini Hindi Bhai Bhai&quot;  that kept India sleeping while China attacked India.
Tibetans in India have been model refugees and the Dalai Lama a great ambassador for India wherever he goes around the world.
What I cannot understand from you Daulat Ram is why are you in Canada when you have your own country in India?
Should the Canadian Government kick out all the Indians too due to the terrorist bombing of Canadian Airlines and Air India? The terrorist then ...were they not all of Indian descent?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daulat Ram<br />
If you did some research you would understand that Nehru out of fear towards China was one of the architect for Tibet&#39;s loss to China.<br />
It was also Nehru through his misguided trust towards China and the silly chant of  &quot;Chini Hindi Bhai Bhai&quot;  that kept India sleeping while China attacked India.<br />
Tibetans in India have been model refugees and the Dalai Lama a great ambassador for India wherever he goes around the world.<br />
What I cannot understand from you Daulat Ram is why are you in Canada when you have your own country in India?<br />
Should the Canadian Government kick out all the Indians too due to the terrorist bombing of Canadian Airlines and Air India? The terrorist then &#8230;were they not all of Indian descent?</p>
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		<title>By: THOMAS DAVID CANADA</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/comment-page-3/#comment-212131</link>
		<dc:creator>THOMAS DAVID CANADA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After the Sixteenth Karmapa passed away, the Dalai Lama took the unprecedented step of using his own power to force the selection of the Karmapa&#8217;s reincarnation. This was entirely unwarranted because historically the selection has always been an intenal matter solely under the jurisdiction of the Kagyu spiritual tradition itself. There were two candidates: one born in Chinese-occupied Tibet, the candidate officially recognized by the Chinese authorities; and the other born in India and recognized by the great Kagyu spiritual master Shamar Rinpoche. Shamar Rinpoche&#8217;s lineage has been closely connected with the Karmapa lineage since the 13th century, and he has been considered second only to the Karmapa himself within the Kagyu tradition. The Dalai Lama sided with the Chinese and &#8216;officially&#8217; recognized their candidate, a decision that caused chaos within the Kagyu tradition, producing a deep schism between those who follow the Dalai Lama and those who follow Shamar Rinpoche. This schism has divided this spiritual tradition against itself, and at times has led to violence.

This is just one paragraph from the section entitled The Karmapa Affair in A Great Deception.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the Sixteenth Karmapa passed away, the Dalai Lama took the unprecedented step of using his own power to force the selection of the Karmapa&rsquo;s reincarnation. This was entirely unwarranted because historically the selection has always been an intenal matter solely under the jurisdiction of the Kagyu spiritual tradition itself. There were two candidates: one born in Chinese-occupied Tibet, the candidate officially recognized by the Chinese authorities; and the other born in India and recognized by the great Kagyu spiritual master Shamar Rinpoche. Shamar Rinpoche&rsquo;s lineage has been closely connected with the Karmapa lineage since the 13th century, and he has been considered second only to the Karmapa himself within the Kagyu tradition. The Dalai Lama sided with the Chinese and &lsquo;officially&rsquo; recognized their candidate, a decision that caused chaos within the Kagyu tradition, producing a deep schism between those who follow the Dalai Lama and those who follow Shamar Rinpoche. This schism has divided this spiritual tradition against itself, and at times has led to violence.</p>
<p>This is just one paragraph from the section entitled The Karmapa Affair in A Great Deception.</p>
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