Dharamsala had it coming, obviously. The swing of the media pendulum is vicious and whatever is lionised gets trashed, sooner or later. With the surfeit of Hollywood productions and personalities supporting the "Tibetan cause" of independence and/or autonomy, it was inevitable that someone would come along and question the way the cause was being pushed.
The Dalai Lama himself has not been spared the discomfort of adverse publicity. Only recently, writing in The Nation of New York, journalist Christopher Hitchens, who had trashed Mother Teresa earlier, came down heavily on the god-king and monk, something that has a lot to do with the kind of funding Dharamsala has been receiving over the years.
It is indeed boomtime for Tibetan Buddhism all over the globe, and Hitchens was shocked enough to report that the Dalai Lama´s office had not only received USD 1.2 million from Shoko Asahara, the mastermind behind the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, but had also later arranged for the cult guru´s meeting with the Dalai Lama, which was somewhat akin to Mother Teresa meeting Papa Doc Duvalier.
Neither has the Dorje Shugden controversy left Dharamsala unsplattered. The Dalai Lama´s instructions against the propitiation of the Tibetan deity of Dorge Shugden raised serious concerns about freedom of worship, and also exposed the fine line that the Dalai Lama walks between the spiritual and the temporal. A Swiss documentary intercuts footage of the Dalai Lama denying that his supporters have been hounding Dorge Shugden supporters with scenes of his followers carrying "Wanted" posters and other instruments of ostracism.