Letter to H.H. the Dalai Lama about the controversy
Letter to His Holiness the Dalai Lama about the controversy (tibetan) (chinese) Introduction by Chagdzöla Lodrö Rabsel Rinpoche (chinese)
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Letter from Shamar Rinpoche to Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of the Dalai Lama
Letter from Shamar Rinpoche to the editors of Wisdom Publications
Scans of original documents
Document of the High Court of Delhi In The Politics of the Incarnation written by Lea Terhune; we have already challenged, in our Rebuttal to Lea Tehune, many of the purported facts, in what is a blatant misinterpretation of […]
Letter to Robert A. F. Thurman by Shamar Rinpoche
Dear Robert A. F. Thurman, I am writing in response to your letter, dated September 21, 2004. In that letter, you voluntarily enter into the Kagyu controversy surrounding the recognition of the 17th Karmapa. Since it is now, and has […]
Open Letter to Tenzing Chonyi, Karma Triyana, Woodstock, U.S.A. from the Monks’ and Lay Community Rumtek, Sikkim, India [ Part 3 ]
Please select the pages: 1-4 5-9 10-15 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 1-4 5-9 10-15
Open Letter to Tenzing Chonyi, Karma Triyana, Woodstock, U.S.A. from the Monks’ and Lay Community Rumtek, Sikkim, India [ Part 2 ]
Please select the pages: 1-4 5-9 10-15 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 1-4 5-9 10-15
Open Letter to Tenzing Chonyi, Karma Triyana, Woodstock, U.S.A. from the Monks’ and Lay Community Rumtek, Sikkim, India [ Part 1 ]
Please select the pages: 1-4 5-9 10-15 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 1-4 5-9 10-15
Letter from Lama Jigme Rinpoche to Mick Brown
Dear Mr. Brown, I am a direct nephew to the late 16th Karmapa and elder brother to Shamar Rinpoche. In 1974 I was appointed by H.H. Karmapa as his representative for all the Karma Kagyu in Europe, as well as […]
Letter from Shamar Rinpoche to Mick Brown
Dear Mr. Brown, Thank you for your letter of 19 Sept., 2005. You said, ” I fear you have misunderstood my last letter. When I say I spoke to a number of people who wished to remain anonymous, I was […]
Open Letter from Mick Brown to Shamar Rinpoche
Dear Shamar Rinpoche, Thank you for your letter of July 19. I fear that you have misunderstood my last letter. When I say I spoke to a number of people who wished to remain anonymous, I was referring to the […]
Rebuttal to Lea Terhune, author of “Karmapa – The Politics of Reincarnation”
IKKBO September 2, 2005 To follow on previous statements on the Karmapa issue at this web-site, here are further ‘proofs’ supplied by none other than our detractors themselves: proofs to the effect that the whole controversy was conceived and put […]
New Karmapa Book Adds Balance
By Lama Karma Wangchuk Review of Buddha’s Not Smiling: Uncovering Corruption at the Heart of Tibetan Buddhism Today, by Erik D. Curren, Alaya Press, paper, $19.95. ISBN: 0-9772253-0-5. Release date: November 15, 2005. Visitors to this site may know that there has […]
Open letter from Shamar Rinpoche to Mick Brown
Answer to a letter by Mick Brown Date: 23.08.2005 Mick Brown c/o Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London W1D 3QY United Kingdom Dear Mr. Brown: Thank you for your letter of July 19 of this year. I did not enter into your […]
Open Letter from Khenpo Chödrag Tenphel to Mick Brown
An Open Letter to Mick Brown Author of The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa (London: Bloomsbury, 2004). Dear Mr. Brown: I am writing you about the pending inventory of valuables at Rumtek Monastery. I came […]