The lessons of the “the Dalai Lama incident” from my perspective as a devotee of Amida Buddha

First of all, Dalai Lama does NOT represent all Buddhists. Dalai Lama is NOT Buddhism. Dalai Lama is just an ordinary old monk with big problems. Now let’s go to the actual topic of this article.
 
I was sad and shocked, like many of you, by that disgusting incident with the child, which is why I wrote about it in my previous article (click here to read it). However, I have recently come to the conclusion that what happened there is NOT an obstacle for the Buddha Dharma, but an opportunity to learn and get detached from the things that are not essential, to realize that we live in a dark age when many monks are actually just monks in name only, as we often say in Jodo Shinshu, and that nowadays devotion and faith should be turned towards the Powe...