The announcement No. 20180104 of the World Buddhist Headquarters has been published. In order to clarify the regulations of the announcement and truly implement, understand, and apply them, we are now issuing the "Three-Faced Demon Mirror" to specifically identify the true form of certain individuals, in order to provide clearer explanations.
Over the years, among the inquiries received by the World Buddhist Headquarters, the most common questions are about whether a certain teacher is righteous or evil. In response to these questions, the headquarters has issued no less than ten announcements. These announcements have been solemnly reviewed by the holy masters and are completely in line with the correct knowledge and views of Buddhism. They aim to prevent evil teachers and fraudsters from deceiving the public, and are absolutely about destroying evil and revealing righteousness, benefiting the public, the country, the people, and the world. They serve as a guiding light to help practitioners walk the path of the Buddha. However, many people have completely forgotten the standards for identifying evil and preventing deception that are repeatedly reminded in the announcements. As a result, Buddhist disciples continue to ask questions that have already been answered. And these questions have been announced many times by the headquarters, and in the Dharma teachings of the Third Dharma Prince Dorje Chang, the distinction between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, has been clearly and repeatedly emphasized. This is because the issue of choosing a teacher is the most fundamental and lifelong matter for a Buddhist disciple to achieve enlightenment!
However, since the Buddha has already clearly explained the teachings and the headquarters has made clear regulations and informed you all, why do you still feel confused? Why can't you make a decision on whether to continue following or choose a new virtuous teacher? Therefore, the headquarters can only laugh or cry! The questions you have raised in your inquiries have already been very clear and have been explained repeatedly. If you do not use the announcements to identify, you will willingly be deceived for a lifetime, and your negative karma and misfortune will only deepen. Even the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions cannot save you!
In fact, no matter how cunning an evil teacher is, they can always be discovered because they cannot escape one rule: these evil teachers never prioritize the announcements as their main propaganda. On the contrary, they vigorously promote their own fabrications, false claims, and deceiving materials. Even if they mention the announcements, they will always take them out of context or even ignore them completely. They will never organize everyone to study the announcements. Instead, these evil teachers sit on the stage, fabricate lies, and deceive the masses, all for the purpose of gaining wealth and fame.
Now, in the announcement No. 20180104, the headquarters once again provides all Buddhist disciples with the "Three-Faced Demon Mirror". As long as you use it, whether you use it to examine your teacher or disciple, you will be able to easily see whether these individuals belong to the category of evil:
First Face of the Demon Mirror: If a teacher does not make a strong effort to publicly promote the learning, implementation, and propagation of the announcements, then they are definitely an evil teacher. For example, in the "Important Answers from Holy Masters" (35 questions and answers) issued by the World Buddhist Headquarters Consultation Center, if a teacher does not ensure that disciples fully and seriously study, implement, and propagate each answer, but only focuses on promoting their own career and fabricated writings, and these writings not only do not include the content of the announcements but also contradict the nature of the announcements, then they have already fallen into becoming an evil teacher!!! It is that simple to reveal their true form because their evil deceit does not align with the announcements. For example, the announcements stipulate that disciples should evaluate their teachers and determine whether they are good or bad, righteous or evil, before relying on them. However, teachers who have not attained the level of holy masters dictate that disciples must correspond to their three vows and must not have any doubts about their teachers, regardless of their behavior. This is extremely absurd! Some evil teachers even claim that they have reached the state of complete enlightenment and unity of heaven and man, so disciples must not doubt their teachers, otherwise their practice will not be effective. The headquarters wants to ask: since you have already reached the state of complete enlightenment, then show us the three vajra strikes from the previous life. It is likely that you cannot even perform the strikes of the earth and heaven, let alone the thousands of times more difficult strikes of the Dharma. What complete enlightenment? It is simply childish and absurd, just a plain fraudster without any power. The announcements are for the benefit of the vast majority of Buddhists, clearly stating that disciples should observe and examine their teachers, verify their true nature. However, there are teachers who prohibit disciples from doubting them and even use the "Fifty Verses on the Teacher" to control disciples. These teachers are shameless and arrogant. Yes, there is indeed such a saying in the esoteric teachings that disciples should correspond to their teachers with their three vows, but it also suggests that disciples should examine their teachers to determine whether they truly understand the Buddha's teachings or not, and even observe for six years. Moreover, in the esoteric teachings, the three vows correspond to the holy masters, at the very least, they should be true high monks with correct knowledge and views, rather than ordinary teachers or evil teachers who are ignorant of the scriptures and pretend to be holy. Some people have only passed the exams for slightly higher levels of the blue rank, and their scores in the study of scriptures and vinaya are less than thirty points, clearly knowing that they are ignorant of the teachings, but for the sake of deceiving others, they pretend to be great saints. It should be clear that the title of "great saint" is the highest honorific title. In fact, according to the calculations of the Yogacara school, it would take approximately 1097 individuals with the level of blue rank and third stage to equal one great saint with the level of three gold ranks! Therefore, evil teachers and fraudsters will never propagate the announcements because the announcements are like a sword that slays demons. Once the sword is unsheathed, the tricks of evil teachers will be destroyed and they will have no more tricks to play!
Second Face of the Demon Mirror: Regardless of the title or status of the teacher you follow, whether they are a Dharma King, yogi, geshe, Rinpoche, khenpo, great master, lay practitioner, professor, doctor, etc., as long as they have not passed the examination for the level of holy master, they are not holy beings. On the contrary, if the teacher claims to be a holy being or if their disciples praise them as "my teacher ××× is a holy being", then this person is undoubtedly a fraudster!!!
Third Face of the Demon Mirror: Anyone who commits any of the following six acts: 1. destroying temples and pagodas, 2. burning and destroying Buddha statues and scriptures, 3. assassinating arhats, 4. destroying the true Dharma, 5. slandering and persecuting holy beings, 6. forcing and killing parents, committing any one of these six acts is a heinous crime of heresy or the five heinous crimes!! But how can we identify who is a holy being? The holy beings of ancient times have been recorded in history, and everyone can find information about them. However, how to determine the nature of contemporary holy beings is difficult because evil teachers and fraudsters always claim to be holy beings, making it hard to distinguish between the true and the false. In our world, from the past to the present, the Catholic Church declares someone a saint, while in Buddhism, a person is considered a holy being only if they pass the examination and obtain the qualification of a holy being. Therefore, only those who have passed the written and oral examinations and have achieved the level of three gold ranks are considered holy beings!!! Those who have not achieved the level of three gold ranks are not holy beings!!! Furthermore, a person with the title of one gold rank is called a junior venerable, two gold ranks is called a teaching venerable, a little more than two gold ranks is called a lotus flower button venerable, three gold ranks is called a supreme venerable, four gold ranks is called a holy venerable for males, and a jade venerable for females. Anyone who elevates themselves and claims these titles is an evil demon and violates the fundamental precept of not deceiving sentient beings. They are the subordinates of demons and cannot be relied upon!!! No matter how high someone's rank is in the blue rank, they can only be considered great monks and virtuous masters, not holy beings. Some people have suggested how the headquarters should deal with those who commit the six crimes mentioned above. The headquarters now announces that it does not have the authority to deal with anyone, and evil teachers and bad people can only be dealt with by the laws of the country. However, the great holy masters such as Dorje Chang Wangzha and others have clearly stated: for evil individuals, whether they are teachers or disciples, as long as someone reports them and the evidence is true, they will be included in the list of evil people and will never receive the inner secret empowerment or the complete liberation of blessings and wisdom for their entire lives!!! However, if the evil actions were committed unknowingly and not intentionally, and are considered sins of ignorance, as long as there is sincere repentance and a commitment to not repeat the actions, they will not be included in the list of evil people. If you have been influenced by an evil teacher and knowingly assisted in evil actions that harm holy beings, the only way is to repent immediately, reform yourself, openly expose the evil person who instructed you to commit the crimes, and inform the headquarters by letter. By doing so, your record will be removed from the list of evil people, which means you have abandoned evil and returned to the position of a practitioner. But you must never repeat the same mistakes. If you repent and then commit the same crimes again, you will be an unforgivable evildoer. Dorje Chang Wangzha said that our decision is correct because those who learn the Dharma but have evil intentions will become demonic and only deceive and harm others. If we were to transmit the profound and swift Dharma to them, it would be an insult to Buddhism, detrimental to humanity, and harmful to sentient beings. It would be an evil act. The swiftly accomplished sublime Dharma can only be transmitted to good-hearted and sincere practitioners who benefit the public.
The "Three-Faced Demon Mirror" provided in announcement No. 20180104 by the World Buddhist Headquarters is the simplest and most powerful Dharma tool. By using it, you will not be deceived by evil teachers and fraudsters, and you will find virtuous teachers and beneficial friends. You will experience auspiciousness, prosperity, and happiness!
World Buddhist Headquarters
October 3, 2018