Dorje Shugden in Sacred Paintings from Old Tibet
The opinion piece below was sent to dorjeshugden.com for publication. We accept submissions from the public, please send in your articles to [email protected]. By: Shashi Kei Thangkas are Tibetan scroll paintings that usually depict Buddhist deities or images of worship. In old Tibet, they were especially popular amongst lamas, monks and Buddhist practitioners…
Dalai Lama blames Nehru for India-Pakistan Partition
The opinion piece below was sent to dorjeshugden.com for publication. We accept submissions from the public, please send in your articles to [email protected]. By: Ashok Rao In 1959, India generously and graciously opened their arms to the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan refugees as they fled China-occupied Tibet, now commonly known as the…
Tibetan Buddhist lamas who sexually abuse
Under the Central Tibetan Administration, one might be forgiven for assuming that tales of financial mismanagement, embezzlement, murder and sex scandals have only recently become commonplace…
The Ambitious 69th “Bhutan Abbot” of Sakya Ngor Monastery
More than 50 years ago, there existed an extremely ambitious but destructive monk who courted the support of the Bhutan palace. As the 69th abbot of Sakya Ngor Monastery, he distinguished himself by creating a strong dislike for Dorje Shugden…
Jayadeva Ranade’s insightful observation on Dalai Lama’s declining situation
To paraphrase a news article by Jayadeva Ranade published in the Sunday Guardian Live on 28th July 2018, the Tibetan leadership’s ‘Five Fifty Forum’ is nothing but a futile pantomime, an empty charade…
Robert Thurman Encourages Killing for Recreation
Menla Dewa Spa is Bob Thurman’s business built on an image of wellness and healing based on Tibetan Buddhist principles. He presents Menla Dewa Spa as “Tibet in the Catskills” which is how he takes advantage…
Crime is fine as long as you are endorsed by the Dalai Lama
It is surprising how you never hear the Central Tibetan Administration or the Dalai Lama’s office publicly censure or denounce Tibetan Buddhist offenders no matter how serious their crimes are…
Bhutan: The Rise of Kings and Dorje Shugden
Buddhism in Bhutan has a long and established link to the practice of the enlightened Protector Dorje Shugden. This actually stems back to the legendary founder of Bhutan, Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal…
The Controversy of the 10th Zhabdrung Jigdrel Ngawang Namgyal (Pema Namgyal)
This piece is not an indictment of Bhutan’s practices and policies but rather an examination of the Tibetan leadership’s double standards, hypocrisy and obvious political machinations for their own benefit…
Will the Dalai Lama return to China?
Vijay Kranti, a senior journalist, Tibetologist, and Chairman of CHASE, has made great efforts to analyze the very important and pertinent question of “Will the Dalai Lama return to China?”
Dalai Lama speaks: What you wouldn’t know if you’re not Tibetan
This video of the Dalai Lama speaking at a teaching in January 2008 at Drepung Loseling Monastery has been identified as being the catalyst for the escalation of the Dorje Shugden ban…
The Truth Behind Accusations of Shugden’s Chinese Links
Indy Hack, an independent UK-based journalist examines if there is any truth in the Tibetan leadership’s latest excuse for banning the Dorje Shugden practice i.e. that the practice is a political tool of the Chinese government…
Shugden Propaganda Collapses After Peljor Fails Scrutiny
Indy Hack uncovers how the Tibetan leadership engaged Michael Jäckel (aka Tenzin Peljor) to create a string of propaganda campaigns to justify their persecution of Dorje Shugden practitioners…
The Dalai Lama’s Health Concerns
Concerns loom as UK-based independent journalist, Indy Hack’s investigations seem to suggest the Dalai Lama is suffering from cancer and is facing deteriorating health, a fact the CTA does not want to acknowledge…
Tenzin Peljor: Profile of the CTA’s chief disinformation officer
The CTA relies on smear campaign experts such as East German-trained monk Tenzin Peljor to start secret websites and run social media campaigns to spread the CTA’s propaganda on the Dorje Shugden issue…
Robert Thurman: Fanning hatred against Shugden Buddhists
One of the enforcers of the Dalai Lama’s illegal ban is none other than Robert Thurman, regarded as ‘the Dalai Lama’s man in America’. Thurman had previously labelled Shugden Buddhists as the “Taliban of Buddhism”…
The Bhutan Affair
For better or for worse, the fastest way of spreading news today is via social media and like any other inanimate object, the results of social media use are dependent on the motivation of its users…
The Tibetan Government’s Meddling Created Three Karmapas
No one could have anticipated the controversy that would follow the passing of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. The recognition of his reincarnation, the 17th Karmapa, has since become one of the most controversial topics to rock the Tibetan community…
Dalai Lama corrects himself on Chinese Panchen Lama
The Dalai Lama has effectively admitted that he has erred on the Panchen Lama issue and his remarks recognize that the Chinese government has correctly chosen the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama…
China makes it easier to report troublemakers
China has recently launched a new service, making it easier than ever for whistle-blowers to report activities which may endanger state security including corruption, espionage and other criminal activities that go against the laws of the country…
What the Tibetan Exiled Govt does not want you to know
The opinion piece below was sent to dorjeshugden.com for publication. We accept submissions from the public, please send in your articles to [email protected]. By Kay Beswick Is this the beginning of the end? Since Trump took office, the American embassy in Delhi, India has stopped accepting the Tibetan yellow book as a valid…
Tai Situ Rinpoche Criticizes Sakya and Gelug Lamas
Recently, a short video clip of the current 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche, one of the four Regents of the Karma Kagyu lineage, has surfaced showing him flaming fears surrounding Dorje Shugden, a Dharma Protector of the Gelug tradition…
India Outmaneuvers Ungrateful Tibetans
The Tibetan leadership have damaged India’s relationship with China on many occasions. But now India is pushing back against this exploitation and are using the CTA and the Tibetans in-exile as a tool to improve ties with China instead…
The Tibetan Leadership’s Worst Nightmares Have Come True
March was a terrible month for the Tibetan leadership as they received bad news after bad news. All of this negative news has come from just one source, and it just happens to be their biggest and most powerful sponsor — India…
Indian Minister Supports Dalai Lama Leaving India
During the opening of the ‘Thank You India’ campaign, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma spoke of India’s support for the Dalai Lama’s return to his country. The message is clear — India supports the Dalai Lama leaving and, along with him, the rest of the Tibetans…
India gives up ‘Tibet Card’
India has been playing the ‘Tibet card’ against China by using the presence of Tibetan refugees in their country to provoke the Chinese leadership. Recently however, a new perspective has been presented by none other than Phunchok Stobdan…
Nepal Arrests Activist for Holding Tibetan Flag
Recently, Nepal showed just how serious they are about the One China policy when they took Adak, a Tibetan activist, into custody after he posted a picture of himself holding a Tibetan flag in front of Kathmandu’s Boudhanath Stupa…
The Grass is Greener in China
Today, if one were to place oneself in any of the Indian border states of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh or Sikkim for example, it would be clear where the proverbial greener grass grows — on China’s side…
Inconveniencing India? Then return to Tibet!
Sikyong Lobsang Sangay has announced that Tibetans do not wish to present any inconvenience to their Indian hosts. However, the irony is that the Tibetans have done nothing BUT inconvenience India for the last 60 years…
Dhamchoe Nyima exposes Lama Tseta’s lies to Reuters
In a shocking tell-all video, Damchoe Nyima, a disillusioned former employee of the Tibetan government reveals that Lama Tseta is an outright liar and a schismatic ‘society destroyer’ who falsely claimed to have proof that Dorje Shugden practitioners are connected with the Chinese government…
Shocking – Dalai Lama statue thrown into river in Tibet
This shocking video shows a large group of Tibetans dumping a statue of the 14th Dalai Lama into a river. Even more shocking is the fact this all took place in Amdo, which is the province where the Dalai Lama was born and usually where his support is the strongest…
India presses Tibetan leadership to stop political activity against Beijing
In this article from the Hindustan Times, the Modi government has made it clear that it does not want the Tibetan administration to engage in political activities against Beijing. In fact, this message is now being conveyed openly and bluntly…
Dalai Lama and Tibetans given the cold shoulder by India
Reuters news agency has confirmed that India is toning down its stance against China, in hopes of calming ties and averting stand-offs like the Doklam border crisis last year…
Indians express the truth about the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans
The Tibetans are starting to lose Indian support. From a grassroots level all the way up to the highest echelons of government in Delhi, more and more Indians have begun voicing their discontent in relations to the Tibetans…
Tibetans urged not to thank India – just grow up
Lobsang Wangyal of TibetSun.com paints a realistic but very bleak picture of the Tibetan leadership’s current state of affairs in relations to the latest developments in Sino-Indian bilateral relations….
Insider Mr Shakya explains candidly why Tibetans are losing Indian support
An article in India Today presents a succinct summary of the current situation between India and China and a clear and truthful picture of how and why the changing political atmosphere will impact the Tibetans…
Fed up of waiting, Nepal embraces China
It is not surprising to see Nepal and India taking the necessary steps to create a closer relationship with China, and distancing themselves from the “troublesome” Tibetan leadership…
Himachal Pradesh Minister is a no show for Tibetan government event
Himachal Pradesh state minister Kishan Kapoor failed to turn up at a significant CTA-hosted event after initially confirming he would be in attendance. Mr. Kapoor had been confirmed as the Chief Guest of an official event commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day…
The ramifications of Karmapa’s shocking special message
This year, attendees at the Kagyu Monlam Festival received a special message from Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje wherein he openly expressed his frustration, the reasons for his frustration and, in his own words, his ‘depression’…
#thankyouindia2018 event fails
In the wake of Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s memo discouraging Indian officials from attending events hosted by the CTA, it has now come to light that the main event of the CTA’s year-long #thankyouindia2018 campaign has been moved from Delhi to Dharamsala…
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