The public announcement states it in clear words. Still, with selfish motives to flatter their dharma master, these people distorted the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Great Compassion Empowering Dharma. They say it is “based on the presiding grand dharma master’s realization merits, realization capability, and realization state that result from the master’s practical cultivation and practice. Namo Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was respectfully invited to descend to the mandala…” Such an unreal exaggeration seriously violates the truth of Buddha Dharma and seriously and patently disobeys the content of the announcement issued by the United International World Buddhism Association Headquarters. It also violates the definitive assertion made by Wangzha Shangzun. The Shangzun said: “This absurd and abominable action should immediately remove the people from all duties with their names posted publicly. But considering their merit from keeping their practice for many years, we will temporarily forgo the investigation. But these people who intentionally fabricate falsities and create such delusional make-up must self-criticize their wrongdoings at home, repent deeply and correct their wrongs from inside out!”
Even more abominable is that this kind of person has violated the Dharma teachings of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Namo Dorje Chang Buddha III said in His Dharma teachings: “The easiest Dharma to practice successfully is the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Great Compassion Empowerment Dharma. It requires no other dharma power or holy capability than just the Lineage Power. One can successfully practice it on the same day of learning the Dharma and assemble a group of people the next day to empower them and bring them into the holy state. The most important thing about the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Great Compassion Empowerment Dharma is you must help living beings selflessly. You cannot use the Great Compassion Empowerment Dharma to collect offering money for your greed and gains.”
“Additionally, Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Great Compassion Empowerment Dharma originates from the power of the great compassionate mind of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. Therefore, at the end of every Dharma assembly, the presiding master must lead the people attending the Dharma assembly in releasing captive lives as the ending practice of the Dharma. If the presiding master only prays to Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva for empowerment but does not really undertake a release of captive lives and instead takes the offering money for private use, that presiding dharma master must be a non-Buddhist professing as a Buddhist or is an evil person. The people attending the dharma assembly will receive no real benefits and attract sinful karma. Therefore, it is necessary for the people who attend the dharma assembly to take part in releasing captive lives. But to be safe, the best thing to do is for the staff of the Dharma assembly to take all the offering money received from the Dharma assembly and personally apply it to the expenses incurred in the main body of the Dharma assembly, which is the release of captive lives as the ending practice of the Dharma, and the expenses of the Dharma assembly, such as the rental of the site, the transportation, lodging, and meal expenses of the master presiding over the Dharma and so on. Otherwise, sinful karma is not only born by the master who presides over the Dharma, but all people attending the Dharma assembly will also have grave dark karma. Of course, what I said is only a matter of principle regarding the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Great Compassion Empowering Dharma; it does not involve the rules of other dharmas.”
Therefore, the most crucial part of the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Great Compassion Empowerment Dharma Assembly is the release of captive lives as the ending practice of the Dharma. If no captured lives were released, then it would violate Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s fundamental truth of great compassion. This is a severe violation of the precept and can lead to a lack of good merit and the growth of awful retribution.
Separately, an announcement was made three months ago which said after listening to and learning the Buddha Dharma expounded by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and after practicing cultivation following it, you should submit your knowledge gained and your organization’s activities about how you have become kind and compassionate, how you cared and loved people, served the public, helped the disaster-stricken and the weak, upheld faithful Buddha Dharma, uncovered evil demons, opposed liars and evilness and so on to the Headquarters. Although the message was already sent to everyone, some organizations still have not submitted the information. If they continue to take no action, the United International World Buddhism Association Headquarters will publicly publish the name list of those masters. Though you claim to be learning from Buddha and cultivating yourself, You have not practiced it. You have only empty lies to fool people. You have not done any good deeds for people.
United International World Buddhism Association Headquarters
September 12, 2016
(Eric Huang worked on the English translation of this announcement. It was last revised on 2024-08-30.)