Over the decades, you have had various teachers and various individuals and practitioners who really promote, complement, and establish and, at the same time, kind of ‘market’ their particular Practice, yidam, lineage, protector, guru, monastery, and meditations. When someone promotes their meditations, or their lineage, or their practice, or whatever they are promoting, you have to look at it with an open mind. Just because they promote something that has been beneficial for them or someone they know, it does not mean they are sectarian or against other things. So, if someone practises, for example, Tara and they promote Tara, they talk about Tara, they explain Tara, they always relate to Tara, and they share and encourage Tara practice with others, does that mean that they are against other Buddhas? It just means that they have a particular attraction to Tara. Similarly, you have the lineage heads, like the Gaden Tripas of the Gelugpas. The Gaden Tripas only teach the doctrines of Lama Tsongkhapa, only teach the practice of Lama Tsongkhapa, and only give transmissions, initiations, and commentaries that are from Lama Tsongkhapa or related masters. So does that mean the Gaden Tripa is sectarian? No, he is the upholder […]