In 2010, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III received the World Peace Prize. Ronald Reagan, Mahatma Gandhi, and others have received this award, which has been given to someone who has promoted altruism and world peace. In 2018 the group who awarded that prize and the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council officially conferred the title of Pope of Buddhism to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. To their surprise His Holiness did not accept the conferment and returned the Pope of Buddhism Scepter. The Buddha Master said:
“Within the field of Buddhism, there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. There are titles of Dharma kings, rinpoches, Dharma masters, eminent monastics, greatly virtuous persons, and Holy Gurus. There is no need for a Pope. I am a humble cultivator. I am not able to take on such a heavy responsibility.”
Most of us did not even know this had happened until we heard that the World Peace Prize organizations insisted that: “The Conferment of the Pope of Buddhism to His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III is unchangeable, the return of the Conferment Decree is deemed not effectible.” On September 26, 2020 the Chairperson for both of the World Peace groups again presented the Pope of Buddhism Scepter to Venerable Mozhi Rinpoche, representative of the World Buddhism Association Headquarters, for the Scepter to be returned to His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III. Click below for the details and press release by the World Peace Councils and links to other news articles.
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