Public Meeting to be held tomorrow at Guards ground

source:iSikkim

Joint action committee, Karmapa reception committee and All Sikkim Buddhist association is organizing a mass public meet at Guards ground in Gangtok.

The General Secretary of Joint action committee Sonam Topden said “The meeting is being conducted to clear the air on the allegations leveled against His Holiness Karmapa and to condemn the accusation and hype created by the media”.

The meeting will start at 10am and around 5 to 6 thousand people are expected to attend. The other agenda of meeting is to disclose the two letters written by the office of His Holiness to Shamar Rinpoche on why his candidate Trinley Thay Dorje cannot be recognized as Karmapa. This would be the first time that these letters would come in public.


DSCN0307arrangements for the public meet on ts full swing at Guards ground
It is to be noted that Shamar Rinpoche has declared Trinley Thay Dorje as the 17th Karmapa. But many Buddhist followers do not accept Sharmar’s recognition. They believe Ugyen Trinley Dorje as the real incarnation of Karmpa.

The public meet will also witness the symbolic burning of a controversial book “Buddha’s Not Smiling” written by Erik D. Curren. In that book author Curren, who is also a student of Shamar Rinpoche describes the controversy over the Karmapa’s succession that still rages today.


DSCN0304“The content of the book is all cooked up, and facts have been twisted. Joint action committee was never contacted for their comments and everything mentioned in that book is all one sided” asserted K. Sherab, President of Joint action committee.

The Joint action committee also requested government of India to conduct a thorough and a fair investigation in the matter. “We are very sure that Karmapa is innocent and all the charges by the media are baseless added K. Sherab.

The committee also resonated that there was no need of buying a land in Dharmasala had the government of India allowed Karmapa to come to Rumtek where he have his own monastery.

The Joint action committee, Karmapa reception committee and All Sikkim Buddhist association also requested people to come and join the meeting on 5th February