"The legacy of the Dalai Lama “will live forever” and nobody will give Chinese President Xi Jinping any credit." --US politican, Nancy Pelosi at a US congress delegation meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama (June 2024) "Over the last few decades in exile, there has been a conscious and continuing project to conflate “Tibetan Buddhism”… Continue reading THE MONGOLIAN-GELUG SHADOW OVER TIBET: Six decades of failed US-Gelug policy
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‘DANCE OF 17 LIVES: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF TIBET’S 17TH KARMAPA’. New Video/podcast interview with writer/journalist, Mick Brown (Dakini Conversations: Ep.3) and accompanying book review
Introduction "It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." - Marcus Aurelius For the third episode of Dakini Conversations, I speak with British journalist and writer, Mick Brown about his life and writings, mainly about his important investigative report/book The Dance of… Continue reading ‘DANCE OF 17 LIVES: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF TIBET’S 17TH KARMAPA’. New Video/podcast interview with writer/journalist, Mick Brown (Dakini Conversations: Ep.3) and accompanying book review
LADAKH TRILOGY (PART I): THE KARMAPAS IN LADAKH. Previous visits and the Karma Drubgyu Monastery
For Dakini Day today, am offering a new research piece and photographs of the Karma Kagyu monastery in Ladakh, called Karma Drubgyu Choling, on the outskirts of Leh. Not to be mistaken for the Karma Drubgyu Tharling (Tilokpur) nunnery, located in Himachal Pradesh, India, as I have written about here. I am currently on… Continue reading LADAKH TRILOGY (PART I): THE KARMAPAS IN LADAKH. Previous visits and the Karma Drubgyu Monastery