Would-be Gelug Tibetan parliament member expelled from monastery on disciplinary ground

20 hours ago

(TibetanReview.net, May11’26) – By unofficial results, Geshe Lharampa Atuk Tseten has won re-election to the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) as one of two persons to represent the Gelug Tibetan Buddhists in it, but he is now removed from his monastery in a disciplinary action. At its meeting on May 10 evening, the governing body of the Drepung Gomang Buddhist Monastic College in the Tibetan Settlement in Mundgod, Karnataka state of India, took a unanimous decision to expel him from its community. The governing body also took a decision to bar its members from standing for elections for the TPiE and the Sikyong without giving up their membership of the monastery first.

The decision followed the ...

Original Article