The office of “This creep” put out a list of “Ten People For Whom It Would Be Better For Tibet If They Were Dead” in around the mid-90’s. I know, because my Tibetan teacher was at the top of the list, and I was part of his security detail during public teachings he gave after that.
There’s also great film footage of Mr. DL - from Switzerland if I recall correctly - screaming at the top of his lungs over the religious schism that led to the creation of the list, a silly sectarian schism - concerning one of the hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist deities - that still goes on.
The form of Buddhism that was preserved and elaborated in Tibet is unexcelled in many ways, but make no mistake about who these people are: in addition to the above, for instance, the large monasteries all had standing armies in the old days, and any Westerner found in the country before the First World War was summarily executed. My experience on a five week pilgrimage to Western Tibet in 1990 did little to endear them to me, whereas the Chinese there were admirable people.
Westerners romanticize Tibetans most irrationally, IMO, and this man in particular. He holds no authority in my mind.