An Open Letter to Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman is promoted globally as a learned scholar and author of Tibetan Buddhism. He is also famous for being “personal friends” with the Dalai Lama. Which is more important then? The fact that he could be a strong authority of Buddhism in the West, bringing the many sacred, ancient teachings to millions in “the…
Robert Thurman: American Monk or Tibetan Puppet?
Everyone who knows the Dalai Lama is most likely to also know of Robert Thurman. Here is a man who has been inextricably linked to the Dalai Lama since the 1960s, when Tibetan Buddhism was just starting to grow in the world. Many well-known Buddhist texts today are attributed to Thurman, making him a leading…
The Two Faces of Robert Thurman
How a leading Dalai Lama supporter and Buddhist scholar begged for Dorje Shugden’s initiation. Anyone interested in the subjects of Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama will know of Robert Thurman, a self-professed “personal friend” of the Dalai Lama and prolific writer about the Dalai Lama and his teachings. In light of the Dorje Shugden…
Relationship with China
Dear ministers and representatives of the Central Tibetan Administration, I am writing to you with great concern over a very urgent matter. I request you to please pay attention to this, because it is affecting Tibetan people’s relationship with China and the potential problems that can arise. For many years, the Tibetan government, people and…
Time for Creating Progressiveness and Unity
Dr Lobsang Sangay Head of the Central Tibetan Administration Dear Dr. Lobsang Sangay, I am writing to congratulate you on your democratically elected position as the leader of the Central Tibetan Administration. With no disrespect to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, I am happy to see that the Tibetan community worldwide finally has someone who…
Angry Spirit
By: TIM McGIRK Once a month, a joyful procession of Tibetan refugees – many of them disfigured by frostbite suffered while escaping their homeland over the Himalayas – files into the Dalai Lama’s exile palace at the Indian hill station of Dharamsala. For these visitors, His Holiness is an emanation of the Compassionate Buddha, and his…
FRANCE 24 reports: The Dalai Lama’s Demons
Dalai Lama’s Demons Part 1 Dalai Lama’s Demons Part 2 By FRANCE 24 (Text) / Capucine Henry and Nicolas Haque (video) Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is revered as a hero by his people and respected world-wide for his peaceful philosophy. Today, however, there are cracks at the heart of his community. A minority…
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