Brennpunkt Tibet (Tibet Initiative Deutschland), 2005
"(...) ein ausgesprochen empfehlenswerter Band für jeden, der etwas tiefer in die tibetische Geschichte eintauchen will."

Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, 18. November 2005
"Eine kulturhistorische Fundgrube, in ihrem attraktiv gestalteten Informationsgehalt kaum auszuschöpfen."

Buddhismus aktuell 4/2005
„… ein Standardwerk, das auch als Studienquelle für tibetische Geschichte und Spiritualität unentbehrlich werden wird.“ (Thilo Götze Regenbogen)

24 heures, 22.11.2005
„Ce livre très richement illustré, et dont les images sont légenées de façon accessible au non-spécialiste, se lit très agréablement ….”

Le Monde des Religions, Paris, nov/dec 05
“Un livre pétri d’aventures, de mystères, de magie, de mystique, illustré de photographies rares et de reproductions somptueuses. Ouvrage très sérieux aussi.”

BuddhaDharma magazine
At first glance, The Dalai Lamas: A Visual History might appear to be a coffee-table book filled with beautiful images related to the lives of the fourteen Dalai Lamas. (It does include nearly 300 plates of some of the most exquisite paintings, sculptures, and photographs in Tibetan visual history, which formed part of an exhibition in Zurich.) However, closer inspection reveals that editor Martin Brauen has invited top scholars in the field to contribute historical essays on the life of each Dalai Lama and other topics related to Tibet's most famous incarnation. Amy Heller offers an account of the protector deities associated with the Dalai Lamas, and Georges Dreyfus examines the fourteenth Dalai Lama's balancing act between traditional Buddhism and modernity. The quality of scholarship in this visually stunning volume will immediately make this the standard reference for the 600-year history of the incarnation line. (Benjamin Bogin)

Shambhala Sun magazine
This coffee table book is the record of an exhibition taking place at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich until April 2006. "The Fourteen Dalai Lamas," created by Martin Brauen, was organized to celebrate the Dalai Lama's seventieth birthday last July. Many of the objects in this exhibition and reproduced in this book - photographs, iconography, religious implements - have never been seen before. Much more than a catalogue, The Dalai Lamas offer scholarly essays on a number of historical Dalai Lamas. Georges Dreyfus' essay on the "stardom" of the present Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is essential reading. It's a passionate and critical look at the religious and political institution embodied in the present Dalai Lama, a man whom Dreyfus argues "... in many ways is a traditionalist Buddhist master whose ideas and practices are quite different from the irenic version of Buddhism that many associate with him." (Andrea AcQuillan)