[Buddha-l] Is there any basis for the allegations concerning the "expulsion" of Ani Karma Lhamu?

[Curt Steinmetz]

Ang Kaji Sherpa is not affiliated with any Buddhist group, but rather is 
a representative of an advocacy group for ethnic minorities in Nepal. It 
is important to know that it is impossible to tell where this so-called 
"Adivasi Janajati" movement ends, and the Maoists begin. The bottom line 
is that the quote from Ang Kaji Sherpa merely constitutes an allegation 
from someone who has no association with Buddhism, and who might 
actually be actively anti-Buddhist (as the Maoists and those allied with 
them are, obviously).

And no matter how many quotes are produced from this Norbu Sherpa 
person, none of them substantiate the smear campaign, which claims that 
there is (or was, or might have been) some effort to have a rape victim 
expelled from the Sangha of nuns.

Curt

On 8/13/11 11:29 PM, Rahula wrote:
> Hi,
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> That's what I said earlier, the NBF was trying to distance itself from what Norbu said.
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> Norbu did not say the nun is expelled, I never said he said nor the news reports.
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> What Ang Kaji Sherpa (general secretary of.....) (are Norbu and Ang Kaji different persons?) said was that a nun who loses celibacy even involuntarily could not be a nun anymore, he did not say she was expelled. The news report, therefore reported that the nun is facing expulsion.
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> Norbu, is the general-secretary(or secretary or official) of NBF, which represent all the organization. However, NBF has distance itself from Norbu's view.
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> Norbu was even quoted to say Buddhism all over the world said the same thing, and he refer to the Dalai Lama saying a married person cannot be a monk.
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> http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-11/south-asia/29760391_1_nun-buddhist-organisations-buddha
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> http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Debate-grows-in-Nepal-about-gangraped-nun/articleshow/9248415.cms?prtpage=1
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