Dorje Shugden

Book Reviews relating to the Dalai Lama & Dorje Shugden

Disputing Pico Iyer's version of events regarding the Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden

Setting the record straight on Pico Iyer's book, Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. We examine some of the statements about the Dorje Shugden and the Dalai Lama included in Pico Iyer's book, which are at best incorrect hearsay and at worst irresponsible lies.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

A Critique of 'Why the Dalai Lama Matters' by Robert Thurman 

Robert Thurman is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Buddhism at Columbia University, New York. He is also a close friend of the Dalai Lama and his chief advocate in the West.

This year (2008) he has written a book: 'Why the Dalai Lama Matters'. Its purpose seems to be to praise the Dalai Lama and to propose how the People's Republic of China could benefit by making friends with the Dalai Lama and establishing an autonomous Tibet to which the Dalai Lama could return. Thurman suggests that the Tibetan plateau could be designated as a 'Zone of Peace', a giant environmental preserve.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4