Reuters’ Special Report about the Shugden controversy and the joint effort of China’s Communist Party & the New Kadampa Tradition to discredit the Dalai Lama

Here is the new special report by Reuters, “China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama“, about the globalized Dorje Shugden controversy and how the Shugden movement gets “clandestine support from [China’s] Communist Party.” Reuters: “Their joint campaign to discredit the Tibetan spiritual leader is paying off, especially in Britain.”

Reuters’ investigation is part four of Reuters investigates “The Long Arm of China”. The detailed and thorough journalistic analysis by Reuters includes an investigation of the background of the Shugden controversy, “The politics of Tibet’s poisonous religious divide“.

• Special Report: China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama by Reuters

See also

• Foreign Policy’s investigative article “Meet the Buddhists Who Hate the Dalai Lama More Than the Chinese Do” (March 2015).
• China’s Involvement in the Dorje Shugden Controversy Feb 21, 2010

Update

• 5 things we learned (and didn’t) from the Reuters investigation into the Buddhist “Shugden” sect, China, and the Dalai Lama by Justin Whitaker

Last edited on Dec 26, 2015