Seeking The Truth
APR 23, 2000, Straits Times of Singapore

This is a story as yet untold and a story that the West doesn't want to hear. For the first time -- and in a Sunday Review exclusive -- we reveal the details -- such as apparent American involvement -- about the mysterious flight of the 'living Buddha' Karmapa Lama from Tibet to India in January. SUSANNA CHEUNG CHUI-YUNG spent two weeks retracing the boy lama's dramatic journey through the Himalayas more...

The flight of a Karmapa
South China Morning Post March 2000

Susanna Cheung and Prakash Khanal trace the boy lama's escape route through the Himalayas (Susanna Cheung, a fellow with the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong, has reported on the Kosovo conflict and East Timor crisis. Kathmandu-based writer Prakash Khanal covers Himalayan environmental issues and is former editor with RONAST, The Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology.) more...

The flight of the Karmapa Lama from Tibet
By Peter Symonds 22 March 2000

For two months, ever since his arrival in India on January 5, the 14-year-old Tibetan monk Ugyen Trinley Dorje has been in and out of the international media. His brief public appearances and even briefer utterances have been the occasion for rather fawning reports which for the most part are marked by an uncritical acceptance of statements and comments emanating from the self-styled Tibetan government-in-exile headed by the Dalai Lama. Trinley Dorje's flight from Tibet has been turned into a "Boys Own" adventure story and the arcane religious rites surrounding his selection as the 17th Karmapa Lama have been the subject of close interest and reportage. more...

RUMTEK CONTROVERSY REVIVED
JAC Challenges Shamarpa's claims
The Weekend Review 3 March 2000

GANGTOK: Tension at Rumtek had been at an ebb for the past couple of years, but controversy over who merits to be at the helm of Kagyupa affairs as the XVIIth Karmapa came to fore again with the arrival in Dharamsala of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the candidate blessed by the Tibetan spiritual and titular head, the Dalai Lama. Just as the excitement over his escape from Tsurphu monastery in Chinese occupied Tibet died down, the tussle to control the Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism started with Shamar Rinpoche, a regent of Rumtek monastery, reinstating his demands to place his candidate, Thaye Dorje, as the XVIIth Karmapa. more...

Struggle for Tibet's Soul
By JULIAN GEARING Lhasa and Dharamsala

Urgyen Trinley can still manage a smile, but his patience is wearing thin. The earlier whirlwind of media attention has given way to boredom as he waits, the days drifting into months. Under gilded-cage captivity at the Gyuto Monastery down the hill from the Dalai Lama's residence in exile in Dharamsala, the 15-year-old Karmapa Lama offers fleeting audiences to Buddhist pilgrims, accepting prayer scarves and handing out red ribbons. more...

Karmapa- the Sacred Prophecy
A new book predicting four more ''Karmapas'' after the present 17th reincarnation of the supreme head of the Kagyu sect has given a new twist to the decade-long row over the succession controversy to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism's head: The Gyalwa Karmapa Lama title. more...

Lama's escape revives rival succession claims
GANGTOK, JANUARY 10: The dramatic escape of Tibet's third-highest ranking religious leader the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, from China last week, has surprised the Buddhist community. more...