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HUNDREDS of Shugden Buddhists will protest against the Dalai Lama’s visit to California next week over the persecution of their sect.
The lama, who lives in self-imposed exile in the Indian town of Dharamsala, claims to be the leader in absentia of the Chinese province of Tibet and its branch of the Buddhist faith.
But the International Shugden Community (ISC) say that the followers of his personality cult persecute members of their four million-strong sect.
They say that hospitals and medical facilities refuse service to Shugden Buddhists in line with the lama’s ban on worship of the 500-year-old deity Dorje Shugden.
The organisation said that the lama’s “cult celebrity status” exempt him from scrutiny by most of the media, although international TV channels Al Jazeera and France 24 have exposed his intolerance.
The ISC will demonstrate outside the lama’s events on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday chanting: “Give religious freedom!” and “Stop lying!”
