This is the final entry about Madi Nolan. We apologize for this taking so long, but I believe you will find it worth the wait.
This article was written by Kate Gilderdale and published in the Stouffville Free Press, a local paper that checks sources before publishing.
The other local paper, the Stouffville Sun Tribune is the paper where Madi Nolan's name and her
false claims first appeared.

Meditation and healing define Tibetan Buddhism
Stouffville resident Charlene Jones is a full time Psychotherapist who has practised Tibetan meditation for 35 years, and who has been teaching the discipline for 20 years.
When she was 18, Charlene met her root guru, Karma Tensing Dorje Namgyal Rinpoche, and accompanied him to India, where she met the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, leader of the Karma Ksgyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Charlene became the first woman to serve as Chairperson at the Dharma Centre of Canada and in this capacity, she hosted His Holiness the Karmapa on his visit to Canada in 1977.
As a trained practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, she was taken aback last fall when she read that an American woman claiming to be a reincarnated Tibetan lama and doctor of Tibetan medicine, Madi Nolan, was offering healing workshops in the community. “In Tibetan Buddhism, when you are recognized as a lama, everyone looks at you as a living god,” explained Charlene. Yet she had never heard of Madi Nolan.
Charlene and her husband, Harold, a former police officer and Canadian Federal Intelligence agent, decided to investigate, and last October they consulted the office of the Dalai Lama to find out whether they could provide any information on Ms Nolan, but they had no knowledge of her.
When they contacted His Holiness Dagchen Rinpoche, one of the highest Tibetan masters in the world, who has lived in Seattle since 1960, and asked if he knew of Ms Nolan, who lives in the same city, he replied, "I am not familiar with her." However, a white woman of the status she claimed would definitely have been known by him, Charlene said.
On Ms Nolan’s website, which has since been taken down, she claimed to be an official representative of the White Cloud Monastery. “The only White Cloud Monastery that exists is in Beijing, and is Taoist,” said Charlene. And when Harold checked with the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, they told him her claim was impossible.
The threat to the integrity of Tibetan Buddhism posed by non-recognized practitioners is of great concern, she noted, especially at a time of heightened turmoil in the Tibetan community. “The most recent of buzz phrases, Tibetan Buddhism, rings across North America, bringing to mind a smiling Dalai Lama and the plight of Tibetans forced to leave their beloved country.”
To avoid being taken in by people who are not recognized, Charlene has this advice. “A valid teacher will speak to questions about where he or she gained their knowledge. Just as in the western cultures, people who have legitimately ‘graduated’ from eastern schools of learning can respond to who their teacher was and where their school is located.”

And people should be wary of anyone who focuses his or her teachings on acquisitions, be it a new car or the partner of your dreams, she warned. “Tibetan Buddhism is about meditation and healing. Period.” For more information visit www.infinitenetworks.com.