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...cynic might respond that the world has quite enough morality already, and would be better off without the likes of Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, political dissident Harry Wu, Alan Keyes '72 and representatives Christopher H. Smith and J.C. Watts advocating positions that may limit our "rights" of privacy and choice. But one look at the violent inhumanity that has recently shocked our nation shows that there is still some room for emphasis on old-fashioned "right and wrong...
...week with news of a possible cure, she resolved to maintain a philosophical calm. "I try to live in the moment because that helps level out the emotional roller coaster," she says. Still, the moment sometimes escapes her. "I am not perfect," she says. "I am not the Dalai Lama." Ironically, it's patients like Smith, the people most in need of a breakthrough, who were the most vulnerable to last week's false hopes...
...Dalai Lama cooled toward Shugden is debated. Some cite the influence of the state oracle, a deity who speaks to Tibetan leaders through a monk in a trance state. Less exotically, the Shugdenites' purism hinders the High Lama's attempts to unify the Tibetan diaspora by reducing differences among its four main Buddhist schools. The Dalai Lama told TIME that he was worried about people's seeking "external help" from a protector spirit while neglecting Buddha's teaching of compassion and wisdom: "Some people worship toward [Shugden] almost equal with the Buddha. That's a disgrace...
...Holiness's means have been questioned. Gelugpas who have traditionally seen Shugden as personal protector may now feel read out of the faith. Addressing charges of shunning, threats and even physical abuse against Shugdenites, American Dalai Lama adviser John Ackerly admits that "there have been cases of harassment," all condemned by the High Lama. The most tragic sign that the dispute has spun out of control was the apparently ritual 1997 stabbing of three high anti-Shugden monks in the exile capital of Dharamsala, India. The killers escaped, but Indian police traced a call they made to a pro-Shugden...
Shugden activists denounce the crime and deny opponents' claims that they receive funds from the Chinese government. But the Chinese, happy at any exile strife, are restoring Shugden temples in occupied Tibet. And Lhodi Gyari, the Lama's Washington envoy, correctly warns that the squabble should not obscure the fact that "a culture and people are being destroyed...