Overview

If one were to summarize the Buddha’s teaching in one word, we would have to say that it is universal interdependence, of which nonviolence is a natural consequence. Since we are all dependent on each other and all other beings want to be happy and not suffer, just as I do, my personal happiness and suffering are inextricably linked with those of others. This nonviolence does not mean weakness or passivity. It is the deliberate choice of altruism in all our thoughts and actions, so that it becomes inconceivable to knowingly harm others.

Fourteenth Dalai Lama: teachings in Amaravati, India, 2005
FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA, TENZIN GYATSO (b. 1936)

Buddhist Concepts · Rectifying Buddhist Terms

• How Rebirth Takes Place, Tulkus, Recognizing Reincarnations – HH the 14th Dalai Lama 2016/03/17
• What is faith or devotion in Buddhism? – Asanga/Abhidharmasammuccaya 2015/07/08
• What is the meaning of patience in Buddhism? – Ajahn Succito 2015/07/08

New Kadampa Tradition · NKT-IKBU · Kadampa Buddhism · Modern Buddhism

Information · Campaigns

• Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s »Modern Buddhism« – Who are the Kadampas? – Geshe Tashi clears the distortion of four Kadampa deities 2015/12/03
• The Special Teacher Training Programme in Kadampa Buddhism (STTP) – Student Agreement 2015/11/27
• Who is demonstrating against the Dalai Lama? [Questions and Answers about the New Kadampa Tradition] 2015/09/15
• The Imperfect Buddha Podcast 3.2: Tenzin Peljor is in the house!  2015/09/07
• How are newcomers introduced to the Dorje Shugden issues in the New Kadampa Tradition? 2015/02/27
• NEWS: Articles related to the New Kadampa Tradition, Ripga, SGI & A Review of “Dolgyal Shugden: A History” 2015/02/26
• New Kadampa Tradition: Never mix with Tibetan Buddhists, they can cause “great spiritual confusion” and are dangerous for your “purity” 2014/10/29
• What is the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT)? 2014/10/24
• Kelsang Gyatso’s Tibetan Relations 2014/10/18
• NKT Survivor activists informing the public about the New Kadampa Tradition at the University of London 2014/10/10
• New Kadampa Buddhism – New Kadampa Tradition – A Summery of a Research 2013/07/24
• Only six months to become a Buddhist teacher and to get a full time position 2013/07/15
• Meditation On University Campus :: New Kadampa Tradition Luring Students Under A New Label: “Modern Buddhist Society” 2013/05/30
• A brief Review of the New Kadampa Tradition Chapter in: “Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World”  2013/03/18
• INFORM statistics – Geshe Title of Kelsang Gyatso – Not Isolating Groups 2011/07/28
• New Kadampa Tradition – INFORM 2011 – Extremism on University Campuses 2012/07/11
• Information about the New Kadampa Tradition 2008/09/18
• A Small Protest of Former New Kadampa Tradition’s Members 2008/09/08
• Bodhisattva Centre Open Day – Review and Reply 2008/09/11
• Australian Sangha Association Statement 2008/07/21
• New Kadampa Tradition – Multiple ‘Histories’ 2008/07/30

Ordination Vows · NKT Ordination

• Kadampa Ordination – A Misguided Approach 2016/04/27
• The fallacies of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) ordination rite 2015/11/03
• Offering Back Buddhist Vows 2012/06/26
• NKT Ordination – Clarifying More Misunderstandings 2011/06/22
• Update: New Kadampa Tradition – Ordination 2011/04/18
• Are NKT monks and nuns authentic? July 27, 2008
• How important is the Vinaya? 2008/07/25

Testimonies

• When it is more than abuse – Experiences within the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) 2016/01/12
• A Tibetan Translator’s Testimony by Tenzing Wangdak – Part 2 2015/04/17
• NKT Survivor Testimony: “I Am Not Your Teacher” 2015/02/26
• A Tibetan Translator’s Testimony by Tenzing Wangdak 2015/01/21
• Buddhist Bullshit 2015/01/01
• The story of a New Kadampa Tradition monk or How I got sucked into a cult 2014/12/16
• Open Letter by Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New Kadampa Tradition’s Maitreya Buddhist Centre 2014/12/16
• The story of a New Kadampa Tradition nun: “Disrobing” 2014/12/16
• More and more testimonies from former New Kadampa Tratition (NKT) followers 2014/12/02
• Last time I saw Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 2014/11/02
• Ordained Too Early: An NKT Survivor Tale (Another New Kadampa Tradition Monk’s Story) 2014/08/05
• The New Kadampa Tradition / Kadampa Buddhism: The Real Danger 2014/07/18
• The New Kadampa Tradition and the Dalai Lama 2014/07/18
• Reflections of a former New Kadampa (NKT) practitioner 2013/01/19
• Geshe Kelsang Calls Seattle Non-NKT Practitioners Dogs 2012/10/11
• Cartoon NKT Survivor Experiences & New Discussions 2011/04/11
• A life in the day of the New Kadampa Tradition 2011/07/06
• Experiences with the New Kadampa Tradition and Kelsang Gyatso 2011/01/07
• Eighteen Months Since Leaving The New Kadampa Tradition 2009/11/03

Even altruism and love itself can be nothing more than elaborate façades built to protect and disguise the ego. — François de La Rochefoucauld (17th century)

Structural & Power Issues

• The Organizational Similarities Between Scientology and the New Kadampa Tradition, and the Impact on the ISC’s Shugden Protest Campaign 2013/05/30
• NKT Tharpaland: The Windfarm Study – A Nocebo Effect? 2013/04/27
• NKT monks beat retreat over wind farm – from Tharpaland to Schloss Sommerswalde 2013/02/11
• Charity Commission and the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT)  (Charity Commission III)  2012/07/17
• Power Games from The World of NKT 2012/04/29
• Good Night Lama – The “Blackmail Tape” 2010/07/14
• The NKT and the UK Charity Commission  (Charity Commission II)  2010/03/07
• New Kadampa Tradition threatened to sue NBO too 2010/03/07
• New Kadamapa Tradition Threats an Author and His Publisher to Sue Them 2010/02/07
• Do New Kadampa Tradition abuse the Charity Status for Political Activities?  (Charity Commission I)  2009/12/21

Thoughts · Essays · Analyses · Concerns

• Did Geshe Kelsang Gyatso lie when he claimed that he didn’t receive teachings from H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama? 2015/01/02
• “Name only”: The dangerous attitude of Nihilism being taught in the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) 2015/10/31
• Religious Trauma Syndrome – Leaving a Religious Extremist or Fundamentalist Group 2015/04/27
• Why ‘Kadampa Buddhism’ (NKT) has all the characteristics of a cult 2015/04/21
• Why do Buddhists – especially but not exclusively ‘Kadampa Buddhists’ – fear enlightenment? 2015/04/18
• Shugden and the New Kadampa Tradition: Fear of Ghosts 2014/11/12
• Kelsang Gyatso’s Teachings for Westerners – ‘From Dharma into Dogma?’ 2014/11/03
• New Kadampa Shugden protesters: Maybe better to go home and do something meaningful 2014/11/02
• The Monk Who Had No Confidence: ‘Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche’ 2014/11/01
• To Protest or Not to Protest: What is an NKT Student to Think? 2014/08/04
• The last Upholder of the Gelug Mahamudra Tradition: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 2014/08/03
• New Kadampa Tradition: From Ancient Kadampa to Modern Buddhism 2014/05/12
• New Kadampa Tradition, Shugden and the Dangers of an Exclusivist Attitude 2014/03/24
• Is the NKT a Personality Cult? – A Check Based on Word Statistics 2013/05/03
• The NKT and Its Relationship With Truth: Should People in Glass Houses Throw Stones? 2013/03/12
• Is the NKT a Pure Lineage of Tsongkhapa? The Problem With Root Texts Within the NKT Study Program 2013/12/14
• The New Kadampa Traditon – Purity Troubles 2013/12/14
• Ex-NKT: Past or Present? 2013/07/11
• Kadampa Primary School Derbyshire – A Happiness Cult? 2012/07/27
• The Birth of the New Kadampa Tradition ‘Lineage’: ‘Teething Problems’ 2012/10/09
• Ex-NKT as an Identity 2012/05/04
• Boring Books by Je Tsongkhapa vs. Good Feeling Books by Geshe Kelsang 2012/04/09
• BBC: An Unholy Row 2011/06/26
• Delusion & Perversion 2011/06/13
• NKT Chaplaincy, NKT Business & NKT Research 2010/12/13
• Waterstones’ Naivety Helps the Spread of the New Kadampa Tradition 2010/07/14
• What is the Truth – Another Smear? 2009/10/09
• The Authors of “The Celibate – Sex. Lies. Salvation.” are NKT Teachers May 11, 2009
• Master Atisha’s Advice – Are these New Kadampa Truths? 2008/08/01

False information increase more rapidly than true information. And what is not getting any better, is our ability to separate truth and lies. – Michael Lynch

International Shugden Community · Western Shugden Society

• Did the Shugden group, ISC, give up protesting against the DalaiLama? Its a bit more complex … 2016/04/02
• The Cessation of the International Shugden Community / Dalai Lama protests 2016/03/12
• First hand account of an ex NKT follower of being in the 2008 demonstrations against HH the Dalai Lama 2016/01/13
• A Victory for Shugden protesters? The Dalai Lama’s US visit has been cancelled due to medical reasons 2015/09/30
• Is there no medical treatment for Shugden followers as Anti-Dalai Lama protesters claim? 2015/09/15
• Dalai Lama protesters & Shugden followers – Propaganda unlimited 2015/09/12
• The Dalai Lama UK Visit 2015: Statement By Ex NKT Followers On The Demonstrations Against His Holiness The Dalai Lama 2015/09/10
• Dialogue with Dalai Lama protesters: What is the Dalai Lama lying about? 2015/07/12
• The Anti-Dalai Lama Protests: Separating Fact From Fiction 2015/07/05
• Tibet’s top religious leaders condemn Shugden worshippers’ anti-Dalai Lama tirade 2015/06/24
• Statement of Buddhist Organisations in the UK on the Protests against His Holiness the Dalai Lama by the International Shugden Community/ New Kadampa Tradition 2015/06/18
• Indy Hack – the tools of a “journalist” 2015/06/17
• Tibetan Community UK Statement Concerning The Protests Against The Dalai Lama 2015/06/12
• Shugden Protests During The Dalai Lama Australia Tour: The Dalai Lama, A Profaning, Nazi-Loving Muslim Dictator? 2015/06/08
• “The Dalai Lama Truth” – Dalai Lama Protesters Cannot Bear The Truth 2015/06/03
• Shugden followers forcefully bang drums – Sidetrack Attack on the Dalai Lama by Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2015/02/08)
• How ‘Kadampa Buddhists’ (NKT) Use Systematic Fraud to Manipulate Twitter Trend Statistics 2015/05/10
• Prove it, Kelsang Khyenrab! Prove it! 2015/05/06
• The Buddhists Who Hate the Dalai Lama More Than the Chinese Do – Article by Foreign Policy 2015/03/14
• Have the Dalai Lama protesters sought dialogue? 2015/03/13
• Some corrections with respect to claims made about me in the internet by Tenzin Peljor 2015/03/04
• Another letter to Kelsang Rabten 2015/02/15
• Raimondo Bultrini about Shugden, the protests against the Dalai Lama and China’s role in it 2014/12/14
• Dalai Lama in Rome: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Summit, media, protests & interview with Robert Barnett 2014/12/12
• @IndyHack 2014/11/30
• Media Note to Tibetan Youth Congress Official Statement on Dorjee Shugden released on May 23, 2014 2014/11/27
• Dalai Lama protests: A letter to the editors of WELD for Birmingham magazine 2014/11/25
• Tibetan Political Review about the Anti Dalai Lama protests by the Western Shugden group 2014/11/23
• ‘False Flags’ , Memes & Trolls: The Death Of A Website And The Birth Of A Crisis For The NKT 2014/11/19
• Nathan Gyatso: Letter to the western Shugden propitiators 2014/11/18
• The International Campaign for Tibet’s statement on the Shugden demonstrators 2014/11/13
• New Distortions: Robert Barnett rejects claims by International Shugden Community (ISC) 2014/11/08
• Tenzin Dorjee in the HuffPost sets the record straight: 6 Things You Should Know About the Anti-Dalai Lama Protesters 2014/11/06
• Some messages from the Dalai Lama to the protesters 2014/11/05
• Huffington Post About The Current Wave of “Protest Demonstrations” Against His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2014/11/04
• Lazy Media: The Dalai Lama in Canada and the U.S. met by Shugden protesters 2014/10/27
• Who is protesting against His Holiness the Dalai Lama? 2014/10/18
• Dalai Lama & Dorje Shugden: Was this really the beginning of ‘religious persecution’? 2014/10/18
• The Shugden protesters are preparing for the U.S Dalai Lama visit – and some journalists seem to become again their victims 2014/10/18
• Kadampa Ryan’s false reasoning why the Dalai Lama is “the false Dalai Lama” 2014/10/13
• Addressing More Deceptions And Misinformation Spread by The International Shugden Community (ISC) / New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) 2014/10/06
• Protests by the International Shugden Community (ISC) Against the Dalai Lama—Is There Any Truth in Them? 2014/10/01
• In February 2008 900 Buddhist Shugden monks were made homeless by the Dalai Lama? 2014/09/26
• Revised Declaration from New Kadampa Survivors concerning the demonstrations against His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2014/09/26
• Dear Kelsang Rabten 2014/09/14
• Trijang Rinpoche’s view about Shugden / Dolgyal: A trouble maker and killing spirit +++ The protesters never asked for a dialogue 2014/09/02
• The Benefits of the Anti-Dalai Lama protests by the Shugden group (NKT/ICS) 2014/08/27
• Kelsang Rabten Calls for Dialogue at the SOAS Conference: Is Dialogue Possible? 2014/08/23
• Declaration by New Kadampa Survivors concerning the Demonstrations against His Holiness 2014/08/19
• CTA List of Shugden protestors & Dalai Lama protests in Hamburg 2014/08/14
• The Dorje Shugden Ban 2014/08/13
• Fruitful discussions on Facebook about the Shugden / Anti Dalai Lama campaign with NKT followers 2014/07/10
• Anti-Dalai Lama Shugden Group continues their campaign and spins the facts endlessly 2014/07/10
• The True Nature of the NKT Sponsored International Shugden Community Hate Campaign … 2014/06/27
• How Low Can Shugden Supporters Stoop? Dear NKT students, brothers/sisters in the Dharma: Please Pause! 2014/06/19
• Cultural Chauvinism: The Flavour of the Shugden Protesters’ (NKT’s) Latest Campaign Against the Dalai Lama 2014/05/16
• Dalai Lama protests 2014: Shugden group in Oslo / Norway 2014/05/03
• Shugden-Dalai Lama protests 2014: Responses to the campaigning of the Western Shugden group 2014/05/03
• The NKT/WSS/ISC Campaign Against the Dalai Lama’s ‘Ban’ of Shugden Worship 2014/03/07
• Kelsang’s monks and nuns protest again, accusing the Dalai Lama of religious persecution and human rights abuses 2014/02/27
• The followers of the New Kadampa Tradition revive their protests against the Dalai Lama 2014/02/23
• New Kadampa Tradition uses Google ads to defame the Dalai Lama 2014/02/17
• We are so important, our problems matter: WSS’s new campaign 2011/10/22
• Amazon Unlocks a ‘Secret’ 2010/01/03
• Western Shugden Society Nonsense Renders Me Silent 2009/11/02
• Blog “Western Shugden Society – Unlocked” Moved to Another URL 2009/10/26
• Western Shugden Society / New Kadampa Tradition have Stopped the Protests against H.H. the Dalai Lama 2009/10/04
• “The Western Shugden Group is severely lacking in credibility” – Correction to the Time Magazine Article by Tibet Scholar Robert Barnett 2008/12/14
• Scandalous feeding on rumors and gossips by pro-Shugden 2008/12/13
• A Biased Historical Narrative Does Not History Make 2008/09/24
• Western Shugden Society: Sowing Dissent Through Baseless Allegations 2008/09/29
• Western Shugden Society – Propaganda unlimited 2008/08/01
• How Buddhists view the protests of NKT/WSS 2008/08/31
• Western Shudgen Society violates Buddhist Ethics 2008/07/14
• (Un) Holy Truth’s 2008/09/01
• Funny Propaganda 2008/07/22
• Western Shugden Society in New York 2008/07/20
• Western Shudgen Society – The Spin Doctors 2008/07/20
• Western Shugden Society – recent developments 2008/07/15
• Videos 2008/08/12

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. – Ven. Walpola Rahula in “What the Buddha taught”, p. 3 (PDF)

Dorje Shugden Controversy · The Role of China

• How China’s Communist Party gets its propaganda into the Australian media 2016/06/12
• Human Rights Press Award for Reuters Investigates “The Long Arm of China” | Dalai Lama | Shugden 2016/05/24
• Reuters’ Special Report about the Shugden controversy and the joint effort of China’s Communist Party & the New Kadampa Tradition to discredit the Dalai Lama 2015/12/21
• Statements by Lama Tseta Rinpoche, a former head of the Shugden Association of South India 2015/12/08
• Response to the refutation of Tenzin Wangdak by an anonymous Shugden supporter 2015/09/19
• The concept of “evil” in Buddhism and specifically in the context of Dorje Shugden 2015/09/01
• Tibetan Man Kills Himself to Avoid Arrest in Shugden Statue Controversy 2015/07/26
• Mahakala, Kalarupa/Dharmaraja and Vaishravana: The Three Protectors of The Gelug Tradition – Talks by H.H. The Dalai Lama 2015/05/31
• Why did the 14th Dalai Lama change his stance on Dorje Shugden / Dholgyal? 2015/05/27
• The making of a Shugden hub in the United States 2014/11/03
• New website about the Shugden Controversy and the Shugden / Anti-Dalai Lama protests 2014/10/09
• Dorje Shugden worship has not been banned 2014/10/04
• Former Kalon Tripa, Ven. Samdhong Rinpoche’s address at Suja TCV School on the issue of Dholgyal (Shugden) 2014/09/09
• Some Media and the Shugden Controversy – How TV Channels and YouTube Can Deceive You 2014/08/24
• Full video: Panel Discussion at SOAS: “The Shugden Controversy & the 14th Dalai Lama” 2014/08/18
• ‘Shugden practitioners or Shugden followers’? Thoughts about my Shugden practice in the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT). 2014/08/16
• Thoughts & Observations: The SOAS Panel Discussion “The Shugden Controversy and the 14th Dalai Lama” – Part 1 2014/08/16
• Part 2 of Correcting Deliberate Misrepresentations on Dorjeshugden.com about the Situation at Sera Mey Monastery 2014/08/12
• Human Rights and the Dorje Shugden Controversy 2014/08/08
• Kalon Trisur Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche – Talk on the clarification of the current issue of Dolgyal at TCV Suja on 26th July, 2014 2014/08/05
• Panel Discussion at SOAS: The Shugden Controversy and the 14th Dalai Lama 2014/08/04
• Tibet’s Mystic Politics: Review of The Dalai Lama and the King Demon by Raimondo Bultrini 2014/07/07
• Hoax or Disinformation: A Letter from United Front of the Tibetan People 2014/07/04
• Dorje Shugden – a paper about the cessation of Shugden worship in Ladakh and the Western Himalaya 2014/06/18
• A Brief Correction of Deliberately Misleading Information on Dorjeshugden.com Regarding the Situation at Sera Mey 2014/06/13
• Shining Light on the Misrepresentations of the New Kadampa Tradition and Shugden Protestors 2014/06/10
• Italian Tibetan Buddhist centers’ statement concerning the cult of Dolgyal/Shugden and the protests against the Dalai Lama 2014/06/09
• 16 Tibetan kids told to leave state – Shugden adherents as refugees 2014/06/09
• The Call of the Dalai Lama to settle the Shugden controversy by majority vote 2014/05/30
• No Naming Names – The CTA Should Continue with A Measured Response 2014/05/22
• The religious and political freedom of Shugden monks 2014/05/20
• Dorje Shugden Controversy: Protests Against The Dalai Lama – An Interview With Tibetologist Thierry Dodin & A New Statetment By The Kashag 2014/05/11
• The Dalai Lama Responds to the Protests: Sectarianism and Shugden Worship 2014/03/16
• The Dalai Lama on Sectarianism, Religious Freedom and the Shugden Issue 2014/03/06
• The Dalai Lama and the King Demon – Dorje Shugden by Raimondo Bultrini 2013/05/16
• Jake Wallis Simons About New Kadampa Tradition, Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Shugden and Religion 2012/05/23
• After the Strom April 23, 2010
• China’s Involvement in the Dorje Shugden Controversy Feb 21, 2010
• Buddhism without Borders: Western Involvement in the Shugden Controversy Feb 20, 2010
• Summary of the State of Shugden Scholarship Feb 20, 2010
• TibetInfoNet Update: Shugden in Kham May 11, 2009
• Wikipedia: Dorje Shugden’s Enlightened Lineage or How to Make ‘History’ 2009/04/15
• The Shugden dispute represents a battleground of views on what is meant by religious and cultural freedom 2008/06/18
• Academic Research regarding Shugden Controversy and New Kadampa Tradition-IKBU 2008/07/24
• Sectarian Rivalry – The Yellow Book by Zimey Rinpoche 2008/10/01
• Religious Fundamentalism in Buddhism 2008/09/05
• Mixing Dharma with Politics 2008/08/13
• The Dorje Shugden Controversy 2008/07/16

Religious Persecution?

• Concerning The Protests At The Teachings Of H.H. The Dalai Lama: A Resolution Proposal II 2014/12/18
• Concerning The Protests At The Teachings Of H.H. The Dalai Lama: A Resolution Proposal I 2014/12/17
• The divorce from the Shugden monks: Is segregation “the Dalai Lama’s discrimination against Shugdens”? 2014/11/07
• Update on the Situation at Sera Monastery – Visit of H.H. the Dalai Lama 2009/03/08
• India Update – Present Situation 2008/11/17
• Review and Present Situation 2008/07/24
• Is the ‘Stick Referendum’ against Buddhist and democratic principles? 2008/08/11
• A former Dorje Shugden follower’s thoughts 2008/08/12
• A Report from Sera and Some Advice 2008/08/23
• A forgotten perspective – Who is persecuted? 2008/09/09

Yes, Kalamas, it is proper that you have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kalamas, do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, nor by mere logic or inference, nor by considering appearances, nor by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, nor by the idea: ‘this is our teacher’. But, O Kalamas, when, you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome (akusala), and wrong, and bad, then give them up . . . And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome (kusala) and good, then accept them and follow them. – Buddha (Kalama Sutta)

Sogyal Rinpoche · Rigpa

• Sogyal Rinpoche & Rigpa – An interview with the former director of Rigpa France Olivier Raurich 2016/03/09
• Rigpa, Cults, The Catholic Church and HH Dalai Lama – A Pep Talk 2013/03/17
• Thoughts on Leaving Rigpa 2013/01/16
• A former Rigpa student’s thoughts and cultivating discernment … 2012/12/23
• What Is A Rigpa Student To Think? 2012/06/15
• The Dalai Lama and Sogyal Rinpoche: A Roaring Silence? 2012/04/28
• One Year With Rigpa – A Testimony 2012/04/23
• Sogyal Rinpoche and the Silence of the Tibetan Buddhist Community and the Dalai Lama 2012/03/27

Tsem Tulku · Kechara

• A comment to Tsem Tulku’s post, “The 14th Dalai Lama’s prayer to Dorje Shugden” 2016/02/04
• Who needs facts when we have the Internet? by Sandy Clarke 2015/14/12

Ole Nydahl · Diamond Way

• A Warning Letter from Lama Ole Nydahl: Don’t Mix Tantric Methods and Teachers 2016/03/20
• Propaganda: The making of the holy Lama Ole Nydahl 2014/07/01

Dhammakaya Movement

• Esoteric Teaching of Wat Phra Dhammakāya by Mano Mettanando Laohavanich 2016/06/02
• Dhammakaya sect knows where Steve Jobs was reborn 2012/09/16

The XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

• The Dalai Lama’s Advice to Buddhists in the West 2016/09/16
• What does the Dalai Lama mean to a young Tibetan, grown up in occupied Tibet under Chinese rule? 2015/08/09
• The 14th Dalai Lama met with the Sarin gas murder Shoko Asahara – Take a Closer Look! 2015/05/11
• The Pope and Dalai in the eyes of Beijing by Raimondo Bultrini 2014/12/15
• Dalai Lama: Good and bad Buddhist monks in Tibetan Buddhism 2014/07/14
• Is the Dalai Lama bad for the West? – A Round Table Discussion 2014/06/17
• The White Shadow of the Dalai Lama 2014/06/12
• Founder of Tibet’s Communist Party makes a final plea for Dalai Lama’s return 2014/03/06
• Dalai Lama fake quotes 2014/03/01
• The Dalai Lama’s Compassion – A Healing Experience 2012/12/23
• Ann Curry of NBC News Interviews His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2012/11/03
• The Dalai Lama’s Reflections on the Realistic Approach of Buddhism: Buddhism in the Twenty-first Century 2012/09/28
• Dalai Lama Interviewed By Piers Morgan & Moving Report About Self-Immolations 2012/06/29
• Dalai Lama Interview 1960 – Dalai Lama & the CIA – Tibetan Guerilla 2012/06/22
• Global Tribute to the Dalai Lama – 75th Birthday of The Dalai Lama 2010/07/08
• Words of Truth – Inspiration from the Dhammapada 2009/12/25
• H.H. the Dalai Lama 2008/06/18
• 100 Scholars From China Had A Discussion With The Dalai Lama 2008/05/06

There never was, there never will be, nor does there exist now, a person who is wholly praised or wholly blamed. – The Buddha

Gurus · non-Gurus · Controversial Buddhist Teachers

• A Must Watch: Video About the Historic Conference of Western Buddhist Teachers with H.H. the Dalai Lama 2015/10/18
• Cults, Cultish Shennanigans & Buddhist Groups by Matthew O’Connell 2015/08/15
• The greater the light, the greater the shadow – One has to learn from it all, even from misdirected gurus 2013/02/26
• Interview with the Dalai Lama about ethics in the teacher-student relationship & Two papers about mindfulness 2013/10/28
• Geshe Michael Roach – The Sad Case of a Gifted Man 2013/09/21
• The Guru-Disciple Relationship – Advice by HH the Dalai Lama 2013/02/21
• The Bodhisattva & Sexuality – The Skill In Means Sutra 2013/01/31
• Dangerous Cult Leaders – Psychology today 2013/01/13
• Is forsaking the Guru, Kelsang Gyatso, worse than the karma generated by Hitler and Mao Tse Tung? 2012/11/01
• Kelsang Pawo (Barry Grivell) – A ‘Tibetan Buddhist monk’ in Brighton 2012/07/29
• Zen Has No Morals’ – The Cases of Eido T. Shimano (USA), and Dr. Klaus Zernickow (Germany) 2012/07/19
• Kumaré: A True Film About a False Prophet 2012/07/27
• Sex And The Lama by Gavin Kilty 2012/07/11
• Devotion with Discernment — A question of personal responsibility by Rob Preece 2012/07/06
• Characteristics of those unsuitable to be gurus 2010/11/05

The truth is the first victim in any war. But the difference is that social media has fueled the propaganda to an extent that we never thought possible. The social networks are great channels of information. But now we learn that they also open up fantastic ways to distort information. And that is hard for most people to understand. – Michael Lynch

Tibet · CIA · Nazis

• Dorje Tsering: Where We Failed Him 2016/03/09
• Is there a relation between self-immolations and Buddhism or even martyrdom and Buddhism? 2015/01/01
• New Political Force of Tibetans and an amazing result: 14th World Peace Summit now in Rome 2014/11/27
• The Middle Way Approach of the Dalai Lama – A Self-Deception? 2014/07/21
• The coward West: Being bullied by China and not meeting the Dalai Lama 2014/05/07
• Tibet & Wikipedia 2014/03/13
• Present-day Missionary Activity in Tibet 2013/07/08
• Christian Missionaries in Tibet: Between Tolerance and Dogmatism 2013/05/26
• The West must unite to resist Chinese bullying against those who meet Tibet’s leaders 2013/05/18
• When were the monasteries destroyed in Tibet? 2013/04/21
• Human Rights in Tibet before China’s Invasion or Liberation – ‘The Truth’ about Tibet, the Dalai Lamas and Tibetans 2013/04/14
• Why the Dalai Lama cannot condemn Tibetans’ self-immolations 2013/03/10
• China is criminalizing self-immolators, arresting protesters’ friends and confiscating thousands of satellite TV dishes 2013/01/21
• Trying to Understand the Self-immolations of Tibetans 2013/01/09
• Tibet’s Independence – Tibet as a Feudal Hell 2013/01/01
• The Burning Question: Why are Tibetans Turning to Self-immolation? 2012/11/10
• If you meet „The Evil“ you must be „evil“ yourself? Tibet’s & the Dalai Lama’s CIA connections + Nazi myths 2012/10/21
• SS Expeditions, Nazis in Tibet, The Dalai Lama Has Close Ties to the Nazis? 2012/10/09
• The Press, The Nazis, and Tibet + Two Press Articles about Tibetan Lamas 2012/09/28

The wanton destruction of the seats of learning and centres of art in Tibet, and the imposition of an ideology whose sole content is hatred of everything that is not its own utopia highlights the forced impoverishment of humanity. – Herbert V. Guenther

Mixed Topics

Violence by Buddhists against Muslims

• Sri Lanka: Radical Buddhist groups join forces 2014/09/30
• Buddhist-Muslim Commitment to Action and the Dusit Declaration 2013/09/18
• Punk rockers in Burma speak out against Buddhist monks instigating violence against Muslims while other groups in Myanmar are silent 2013/08/07
• Myanmar Mosque, Muslim Orphanage Burned After Alleged Immolation Of Buddhist Woman 2013/05/30
• Sri Lanka: Buddhist monk self-immolated to protest the slaughter of cattle and the alleged conversion of Buddhists 2013/05/27
• Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims? Alan Strathern on BBC News 2013/05/02
• Buddhist Monks as Hate Preachers & Sexual Abuse 2013/04/18

Full Ordination for Women

• Why Buddhist men shouldn’t be ordained – Bhante Sujato
• Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in Theravada Buddhism – Ajahn Brahm 2014/07/02
• Women monastics are indispensible 2014/03/02
• The Buddha’s Forgotten Nuns – A New Documentary 2013/07/31
• Full Ordination for Women: Thailand’s Buddhist nuns cautiously lobby for legal recognition 2013/02/18
• The first female Geshe: Geshe Kelsang Wangmo 2012/10/06

News · Thoughts · Ethics · Cults · Abuse  · Poems · Wisdom · Meditation

• You’re interested in going to a Buddhist center in your city for the first time. What advice can be given? 2016/08/24
• The Secular vs. the Spiritual: Is India Squandering Its Top Export: The Buddha? 2016/01/04
• The psychological pitfalls of integrating an Eastern spirituality into a modern Western context. (Spiritual by-passing) 2015/12/14
• 500,000 views and 186,638 visitors 2015/11/09
• The Virtues of Humility – by Matthieu Ricard 2014/09/30
• Six monks came to Ferguson accompanied by two unidentified Tibetans to support justice for Michael Brown 2014/08/20
• Bad News About Dharma by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (2014/07/18)
• Bringing the Nalanda Tradition to the West: Reflections and Challenges by Patrick Lambelet (2014/07/18)
• On Shamar Rinpoche’s death and the future of Karmapa by Thierry Dodin (2014/06/24)
• The Dangers of Meditation. Advice for Meditators. An interview with Leigh Brasington by Willoughby Britton. 2014/03/11
• Forgiveness is something to consider after the trauma has occurred 2014/02/15
• Poems and Verses by Hafiz & Sakya Pandita 2013/07/29
• Use Common Sense: Khandro Rinpoche about Sexual Abuse by Buddhist Teachers in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition 2013/05/21
• New Blog: British Buddhism 2012/12/29
• Stephen Schettini about Tibetan Buddhism – When Buddhism is a Cult 2012/11/12
• Upcoming Documentary: When the Iron Bird Flies — Tibetan Buddhism Arrives in the West 2012/09/30
• Four Young Tulkus In The West – Details About What Happened To Kalu Rinpoche 2012/07/27
• Reform and His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2012/07/16
• Committing to ethics which counter any type of abuse, including child abuse 2012/07/11
• Violation of the Sacred — Western Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Misconduct in the Clergy and their Implications for Western Dharma Centers 2012/06/16
• Ethics and Safety 2012/05/17
• Reporting Personal Experience On Religious Movements 2012/05/01
• Chinese Electronic Spy Ware Effects Google Search Results on Shugden 2009/04/12

Note: In each category the posts are listed in descending chronological order.