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Pertinent Articles



Good Western or independent sources on Tibet

Articles:

Critical Links to Buddhism and Lamaism: The most comprehensive link list to a critical evaluation on Lamaism, compiled by Victor and Victoria Trimondi.

How The Tibet Movement Can Backfire on America, by Alice Ewing, editor of Chinese American Media Watch.  Oct. 2001 issue of Chinese American Forum

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth, by Michael Parenti, Swans Commentary

End the Fairy-Tale Reporting of Tibet, by Pamela Logan, L.A. Times

From Taiwan to Tibet, U.S. Perceptions of China Dangeously out of Touch, by Foreign Policy In Focus

Tibet: A Reality Check, Frontline, India's national magazine

Tibet Through Chinese Eyes, by Peter Hessler, Altantic Monthly

Dalai Lama greeted by protesters in Manhattan, by CNN

His Material Highness, by Christopher Hitchens, Salon

The American Yen for Zen, by Martha Sherrill, Slate Culture

China Good?  China bad?, by Hank Hyena, Salon

Myth and Reality, by Foster Stockwell

Reassessing Tibet Policy, by Tom Grunfeld, Foreign Policy In Focus

Tibet--Through the eyes of a forgotten minority, by Alice Ewing, Chinese American Media Watch


Web sites:

Kham Aid Foundation

Tibetan Studies Press Office: Homepage of European Buddhist Study Groups

Dorje Shugden International Coalition

Tibet -- Through the eyes of a forgotten minority

Shadow Circus--The CIA In Tibet

Books:

The Making of Modern Tibet, by A. Tom Grunfeld

The Struggle for Modern Tibet : The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering, by William Siebenschuh, Tashi Tsering, Melvyn C. Goldstein

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet : Religious Revival and Cultural Identity by Melvyn C. Goldstein (Editor), Matthew Kapstein (Editor), Orville Schell

Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism, by June Campbell

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