Dalai Lama Taken to Court for Religious Discrimination

This clip is from the documentary 'The Dalai Lama: The Devil Within' by Al Jazeera. The Dalai Lama has be taken to court by Kundeling Rinpoche on grounds of religious discrimination for his ban on the Buddhist Deity Dorje Shugden. The reporter has added at the end of the updated report: "The case against the Dalai Lama is still with the courts. We hope to bring you an update later in the year." As the lawyer for the persecuted Shugden practitioners, Shree Sanjay Jain, explains: "It is certainly a case of religious discrimination in the sense that if within your sect of religion you say that this particular Deity ought not to be worshipped, and those persons who are willing to worship him you are trying to excommunicate them from the main stream of Buddhism, then it is a discrimination of worst kind." Al Jazeera adds: "No matter what the outcome of the court case, in a country where millions of idols are worshipped, attempting to ban the Deity is an uphill battle. One in which many Buddhist monks have lost their faith in the spirit of the Dalai Lama."

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YouTube | January 18, 2009

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