For a second consecutive evening, Gangtokians held a candlelight vigil for the Karmapa here at MG Marg on Monday. This time, the turnout was even stronger than the impromptu gathering of last evening. The turnout was packed cheek-by-jowl from the highway, past the tourism office and even spilling over to the road to Children’s Park and deeper into MG Marg.
The lay people who had turned up at Titanic Park last evening to express their hurt over the insensitivity with which the national media was running down the image of Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, were joined today by representatives of the Karmapa Reception Committee and Joint Action Committee [for the Karmapa], some of whom even addressed the gathering.
Lay people, not all of them Buddhists, in Gangtok, as across the world, have been shocked by the viciousness with which the Indian media at large has launched ridiculously speculative journalism into how it has covered the raids at Gyuto Monastery at Sidhbari near Dharamsala [where the Karmapa is lodged].
[SAGAR CHHETRI]
it is nice to see the solidarity expressed by the people of sikkim for HH The Karmapa. the escape of HH has always intrigued me though!
ReplyDeletethey say there is no fire without smoke, so there must be something fishy in the mix.plus tibetans have been living as refugees in india for decades and i expect they have to follow indian rules and tax laws.of all the currency HH has recieved chinese yuan seems to be in the greates amount.i hope the advisors for HH have not misappropriated funds and invited trouble for HH
this is all a propaganda of Gyalo Dhondup.....to defame the Karmapa...
ReplyDeleteTibetan people!! please wake up from your slumber.don't you see this ??? it is all a propaganda to defame the Karmapa. because he is becoming more popular than the you-know-who.
ReplyDeletetake your guess.