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situations resulted from conflict of interest among Venerable Jue Cheng, and Abbot of Taiwan Ci
politicians who were expedient to secure their Fa Temple Master Jing Yao were invited as the
interests. speakers for the event. There was a big turnout,
with an estimation of more than 2,000 people
Pseudo-Buddhist Cult attended.

In October 2007, YBAM jointly hosted a forum YBAM also held the ‘Dharma Stream Forum’ in
named ‘Refuting Cult and Revealing the Truth!’ collaboration with other Buddhist organisations
with Mahayana, Theravada, and Vajrayana on 24 August 2017 and 21 July 2018,
Buddhist organisations, to oppose the arrival of respectively, to explore on how to educate the
the founder of True Buddha School Lu Sheng public with authentic teachings of the Buddha,
Yen to Malaysia. and to curb cult by working with relevant
government departments and the media. 十
As the founder of Guan Yin Citta Dharma
Door Lu Jun Hong visited Malaysia frequently, In 2014, 2016, and 2017, YBAM also joined
on 6 August 2016, YBAM once again united the Malaysian Buddhist Consultative Council
67 Buddhist organisations in a short period (MBCC) to release statements that the Guan Yin
and held the ‘Identifying Pseudo-Buddhist Cult’ Citta Dharma Door does not practise authentic 年
seminar in Melaka to work closely and stop teachings of the Buddha and thus is not an
the abuse of ‘Buddhism’ by cults, which could authentic Buddhist organisation.
undermine social harmony and tranquility. On
the day, Chief Abbess of Fo Guang Shan for
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia 大 10 YEARS OF YBAM

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