It has been our desire to see "A Church established among every unreached Buddhist people group."  

Today, I was listening to Joel Goldberg's talk about Islam and he said that his intention in writing his novels was to alert the Church so that they would not be blindsided by the rise of radical and apocalyptic Islam as we were on September 11. As former Buddhists, we understand the subtle nature of Buddhist propagation and their missionary strategy. Although they don't use guns, for the most part, we as Christians are involved in an ideological battle with religions that have captured the minds of millions of souls who are unaware of the dangers of modern sophisticated idolatry that come wrapped in the crimson robes of a "simple Buddhist monk" with an intriguing story from Tibet. 

While we should be respectful of foreign dignitaries, we must also ask serious questions about any speaker's agenda who is invited to speak in City Hall, Congress or on a campus, be they progressive, conservative, or from another faith. The University is a concourse of ideas. As a former Buddhist, one of my leaders, Gary Curtis was quite involved in the original Free Speech Movement in Berkeley. What we see today at Berkeley is a travesty to anyone who honors freedom of speech and the opportunity to debate ideas from whatever strand they come from. 

In the spirit of open dialogue, we would like to invite you to take our course free of charge. The course provides an opportunity to view Tibetan Buddhism through a Christian lens. While it may not be in alignment with yours, it will at the very least provide a series of articles, maps, video and audio lectures that will challenge many to a spirited and open dialogue about the issues which we believe arise because of the free reign the Dalai Lama has been given by the US government. We also want to let you know that the Dalai Lama is again coming to the U.S. in June and speaking on several college commencement addresses beginning June 17, 2017 including, John Muir College, Earl Warren College, Eleanor Roosevelt College, Rady School of Management, Thurgood Marshall College, School of Global Policy and Strategy, Revelle College, Sixth College, and University of California at San Diego as well as many other venues around the country.

Our website http://worldviews101.com includes many blog posts that range from interviews (translated into Mandarin and Spanish) with Victor and Victoria Trimondi, who were originally instrumental in securing an invitation to Germany and Austria for the Dalai Lama and subsequently wrote a critical expose of their findings in The Shadow of the Dalai Lama, Sexuality, Magic and Politicshttp://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Contents.htm ,  a chapter that I wrote for Intervarsity Press entitled, "The Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism" in Westmont University Sociology Professor Ronald Enroth's A Guide to New Religious Movements, as well as an Open Letter to the US Conference of Mayors where the Dalai Lama was the keynote speaker, among many other articles of interest.

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