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It is truly saddening when a people wish to celebrate something like the Dalai Lamas birthday and they cannot because of sensorship by China. However I find it even harder to bear that the Dalai Lama himself institutes a ban on the worship Buddhist Protector Dorje Shugden which results in such Buddhists being outcast from Tibetan society. This is very sad, no one has the right to infringe on someone's religious freedom - not even a high ranking lama such as the Dalai Lama.
Feb 21, 2015 08:53 PM
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Under a normal regime, the celebration of a top religious leader's 80th birthday is so ordinary and commonplace that it would hardly be a leading story in the media. It is only under an abnormally insecure and repressively intolerant regime that such a birthday celebration would become a leading news item.
Feb 23, 2015 01:36 AM
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