Opinion: Tibetan Buddhism isn’t in crisis, Our journalism might be.

5 months ago

By Tsunma Karma Rangrig Dolma, a Tibetan Buddhist nun

A critique of Sonia’s Feleiro’s “The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait,’” published by the Guardian on November 26th, 2025 and why it misses the mark.

There is an exhausting genre in modern journalism: the “Buddhism isn’t what you thought” long read. It arrives with moral seriousness, a scenic travelogue and crucially, a rush to flatten 2,500 years of religious history and diversity into one tidy problem. Sonia Faleiro’s article in the Guar...

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