Gelug MPs offer repentance for “faults” but deny defaming Dalai Lama

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Tenzin Nyidon

DHARAMSHALA, Jan. 21: The two incumbent Gelug parliament members, Geshe Lharampa Atuk Tseten and Geshe Lharampa Gowo Lobsang Phende, offered repentance at Drepung Monastery during an official ceremony on Tuesday following directives issued by the monastery’s administrative body, Drepung Lachi, based on a pronouncement made by the state oracle of Tibet, Nechung on December 27.

As part of the monastery’s directives, the two MPs offered ceremonial scarves before His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s throne in the Dre...

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