More info below forwarded by another society:
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Forwarded by CAS -
The "Shugdenites"

       Unhelpfully, several active and established Buddhist
organizations -- the New Kadampa Tradition headed by Geshe Kelsang
Gyatso -- in particular -- have openly organized strategised rallies
and campaigns against His Holiness, over this issue --
       This organization has started a center in Singapore, the
Odiyana Buddhist Meditation Centre. They ambition to build a big
temple here and at the end of this year ( 2007 ), to hold one of their
global conferences in Singapore's international convention centre:
http://www.kadampaf estivalasia. org/2007/ eng/index. php

       Besides the New Kadampa Tradition above, the "Chinese Gelugpa"
centres, the Singapore branch of which exhibited and offered for
stipulated fees, thousands of strange-looking coloured "relics" at the
Singapore Expo, have also aggresively attempted to establish presence
outside of the traditional Tibetan circle, such as in India and Nepal,
where they are very much considered a dangerous deviant group --

This chain of centres, headed by a bearded Taiwanese "monk",
circulated serious misinformation about the teachings of the Buddha
and are very active in the Chinese communities such as in Taiwan and
Singapore.

       Amongst Tibet's historical great monasteries, the Ganden
Shartse and the Sera Mey monasteries, are open pools of defiance
against His Holiness and the very core and well-spring of "shugden"
practice, offering the satellite "shugden" worshippers in the west and
around the world, the supposed traditional monastic reference and
accreditation, it seriously lacks --

 The Ganden Shartse Monastery, too, appears to be struggling for a
stable foothold outside of the mainstream Tibetan Buddhist circle.
They have started their official representative centre in Singapore --
Ganden Shartse Dro Pen Ling -- and were visited by their seniormost
abbot, Lati Rinpoche as well as the present Official Head of the
Gelugpa Tradition, the 101st Ganden Tripa. These two Masters and the
centre themselves, have declared allegiance to His Holiness's advice
on "shugden".


"These two Masters are, themselves, precious Teachers of many of CAS's
friends and are the very paragon of virtue, learning and saintliness.
"
       However, there are genuine concerns over the costly rituals
their devotees are asked to pay up and of course, the subsequent
chanelling of these funds back to the main Ganden Shartse monastery in
India.

 The monastery has several hostels, one of the main hostels in Ganden
Shartse, being the Do-Kham hostel. This hostel is openly performing
"shugden" practices and most of the monks of this hostel, constituting
a majority of the population of this monastery, strongly boycott
teachings given by His Holiness.

 Understanding well the many sacrficies the local centre's management
have make for the main monastery, the "win-win" measure to take now
may be to exert all viable means to re-direct this monastery's
administrators into doing the right thing, although this will be more
than an uphill battle.

 His Holiness Himself comments:
"And yet, many others did not pay heed to what I said. For example, in
Pompora Khangtsen in Sera, they have stuck their necks right out. They
are continuing the practice with great extravagance. Another example
is Gaden Shartse monastery, where they are also being extravagantly
zealous."

   Unpleasant and apparently not in the best interests though it is
for CAS to be forwarding an email as such, we simply have no choice
but to appeal to the discerning Buddhists to adhere to the Buddha's
advice to "Take the Precepts as our Teacher", to examine even His
Teachings just as a goldsmith would test gold, that friends of CAS,
may keep themselves informed and away from spiritual death-traps --


With our every regards and prayers,

bb & all friends   @ CAS