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India has lost Tibet, so also Afghans, Burma & abandoned it to Karma. May the higher powers give us the Vision to guide the people of Himalayas & South of it.
I know Phuntsok Stobdan personally from the time he studied in Mongolia 1987-1989. Although not as vocal as now, he was always anti Dalai Lama and anti Tibet. If I was him, I would lie low, if only to avoid unflattering facts during his time in Mongolia coming out in the light．
Miina Waratani
Full of inaccurate, irrelevant, and poorly researched materials. Let me randomly pick some examples.
“the Dalai Lama has lately been giving interview after interview, which indicates his growing anxiety. ” —Dalai Lama is a well known religious leader, no matter the author likes him or not, media from all over the world are lined up to meet and interview him, but the author saw few recent interviews and made an assumption that the Dalai Lama is being anxious.
“Recently, he said the Tibet issue is no longer the struggle for political independence. ” —-No! The Dalai Lama has been saying that since 1974, on countless occasions, but the author didn’t know or simply saying that to make some sense to his arrogant view.
This writer is right hand puppet of drukchen and he himself is secterian in nature. He always writes malicious article on all other Tibetan lama except drukpa. And he also mentioned that he went to occupied tibet (china) in 2018 so definitely he is getting some fundings from chinese
Far from abandoning Tibet the US has been mending new relationships with the Tibet issue along with East Turkestan’s to fight China.
The US Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act and US Tibetan Policy 2018 and Support Act 2019 are solid support by legislatures that are now US policies.
Read details in the links given below.
The author of the book has been personally spearheading a misleading campaign against His Holiness the Dalai Lama which is not good for Ladakh, India at large and to the Tibetans. The division he aspires to create between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his Buddhist followers will only backfire gainst its origin.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-reciprocity-matters-us-reciprocal-access-tibet-act
https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3027977/new-us-bill-demands-china-grant-consulate-tibet-and-stay-away