Dawa Sangpo Dorjee dares 'ice meditation test' with Dalai Lama
Lama Dawa Sangpo Dorjee, a claimant of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa to the questionable Rumtek Dharma Chakra seat Tuesday challenged the Dalai Lama to sit for a spiritual test to prove his authority of endorsing Orgyen Trinley Dorjee as the real Karmapa.
WITH JUST months left for Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s Sikkim visit, Lama Dawa Sangpo Dorjee, a claimant of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa to the questionable Rumtek Dharma Chakra seat on Tuesday challenged the Dalai Lama to sit for a spiritual test to prove his authority of endorsing Orgyen Trinley Dorjee as the real Karmapa. The Karmapa row comes a week after thousands supporters of Orgyen Trinley Dorjee took out a massive rally in Gangtok demanding that the Centre to allow him to take his Rumtek Dharma Chakra seat, which is without a head after the passing away of the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa.
Addressing the reporters at his Tathangchen residence, Dawa Sangpo Dorjee said, having failed to meet the Dalai Lama nine times, he would this time try to meet him and call upon to meditate with their body sunken in ice for 7, 9, or 21 hours – to test spiritual power. “If he wins, I will withdraw my all claims of being the real 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, if not then the result is imminent’. Asked on the challenge, the Dawa Sangpo Dorjee said ‘Apart from proving spiritual powers, it can be known as to why he is so interested in the affairs of the Kagyupa sect of Buddhism.’
The Dalai Lama heads the Gyelukpa sect while the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa belongs to the Kagyupa sect.
‘Although I have never tried the challenge, I want to sit only to test the Dalai Lama, so that his interference in the affairs of the Karmapa issue comes to the fore. This is neither against Tibetan Buddhism nor against any individual’, said Dawa Sangpo Dorjee. The Lama further asserted his readiness to face test in all parameters except ‘education’ on which he claimed of being a self taught Lama without a Guru.
Commenting on the September 26 rally for Orgyen Trinley Dorjee, the Karmapa claimant said ‘Majority is not the only benchmark for reinstatement of the real Karmapa. It is not a political game where headcount determines majority’.
Dawa Sangpo Dorjee also criticized the state government’s proposal to develop a power project in the name of Lethang HEP over Rathong Chhu river. Saying that Rathong Chu project which the state government scrapped in 1997 was being planned as Lethang project, he pointed out that constructing the project on a holy and sacred river is against the religious sentiments of the Buddhists. ‘People should come forward and raise voice against the project’ said the Lama.
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