Resolution 17 September 1997

1. Reaffirming and calling the attention of the Tibetan people to the resolution of 6 June 1996, the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies recommends that:

2. Continued efforts should be made to educate the people to the demerit of following Shugden and that literature, audio tapes and visual tapes on the subject should be made easily available to the people;

3. The joint disinformation campaign of China and a small number of Shugden activists should be challenged within the framework of law;

4. Clarifications should be issued to repudiate the Shugden activists' distorted propaganda, aimed at deceiving the general people;

5. Efforts should be made to challenge the Shugden activists' campaign to intimidate and deceive non-Shugden practitioners, and that the victims shdould be provided security and legal protection;

6. Particularly in the Three Great Monastic Universities od Sera, Gaden and Drepung, the restriction on Shugden practice should be kept up;

wherever the restriction has not been adequately enforced in any quarter of a Monastic University, the abbots, lamas, bureaucracy and scripture teachers should be asked to discourage the practice;

support should be given to ordinary monks who are forced to violate the monastic discipline through use of intimidation and threat by Shugden activists;

7. The Chinese government's politically-motivated support to a handful of Shugden activists and their disinformation campaigns in Tibet and outside world should be challenged effectively;

8. Recognition should be given to those who followed Shugden in the past out of ignorance, but have now given up the practice;

efforts should be made to ensure that they do not suffer as a result of having given up the Shugden practice;

9. Efforts should be made to ensure that Shugden practitioners do not receive tantric teachings and Sothar teachings/vows;

10. People should send as much report as possible so that the local government and concerned central government departments of India are kept informed of the activities of Shugden supporters;

11. The government, non-governmental organizations and individuals should continue to follow His Holiness the Dalai Lama's advice on the demerit of Shugden practice, the resolutions of the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies and the Tibetan Administrative organs' instructions on the matter;

and they should challenge the nefarious designs of the Shugden activists and should not let down their guard.

Translated from the original in Tibetan

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