All religions have warts. Over time, we tend to paste a veneer of sugar coated lovey dovey on top of the injustices in the world done by religion, especially when it is our own denomination.

Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism — in each of these religions (and others, of course)  barbaric acts  have been committed  and injustices performed and maintained in the name of that religion … especially when religion combines with politics and activities/laws/customs that maintain  the social order in a certain way that keeps a particular elite in society entrenched in money and power.

Tibetan Buddhism is no different. We romanticize the past, and tend to ignore the realities of what  really went on when it comes to religious matters in the past. An example from an article I long ago wanted to post just so you know what the real world is like:

http://www.swans.com/library/art9/mparen01.html

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