When those teachers—suppose they already practice the Buddhadharma—still do not behave properly, it indicates that they have a lack of shamefulness on their part. They do not care about the negative consequences for their own […]
Controversy: New Kadampa Tradition, Dorje Shugden, Sogyal Rinpoche, Tsem Tulku, Ole Nydahl, Diamond Way, Sangharakshita, Triratna, Dharmakaya :: Tibet & Dalai Lama :: More
Author: tenpel
Buddhist monk.
Mark Dunlop’s involvement with the FWBO / Triratna
I, Mark Dunlop, am an only child, and I was born in N. Ireland in 1950. My father was in the Navy, and my family lived in different parts of the world, following my father’s […]
NSPCC Opens Triratna Case
The detail made it worse, as some people had always known it would. It wasn’t just a short period of experimentation, it went on for twenty years. It wasn’t just a few lovers, it was […]
A Letter To The College of Public Preceptors By The Aryaloka Spiritual Vitality Council
Preface by Buddhism Controversy Blog: Some weeks ago, the Aryaloka Spiritual Vitality Council sent the following letter to the Triratna Buddhist Community’s College of Public Preceptors. We would like to express our praise for […]
Easy Come, Easy Go: Modern Kadampa Teachers – The New Kadampa Tradition
Part One. THE QUICK PATH TO BECOMING AN NKT TEACHER AND WHAT AN NKT FOLLOWER NEEDS TO RECOVER FROM This conception of ‘friendship’ with the spiritual guide is completely missing in the NKT in […]
The Doggedness of Clinging to Shugden
By Carol McQuire I was looking up the recent origin of the phrase ‘Shugden Buddhists’ when researching a commentary on the New Kadampa Tradition’s recent letters denying the valid lineage of Trijang Choktrul […]
Robert Spatz, guru of the OKC cult, gets 4 years’ suspended sentence
Dated: 15th sept 2016 On Thursday, Brussels criminal court (“tribunal correctionnel”)¹ sentenced Robert Spatz, spiritual head of the Ogyen Kunsang Choling (OKC) Buddhist community, to a suspended sentence of 4 years in prison. The man, […]
An Open Letter from the International Shugden Buddhist Community (ISBC) / New Kadampa Tradition (NKT)
Today, on Tibetan Uprising Day (10th March 2017) the New Kadampa Tradition (aka NKT, Kadampa Buddhism, Modern Buddhism, Kadampa Meditation Center) posted a new divisive letter that has the potential to create more unnecessary disunity […]
The NSPCC, the Triratna Buddhist Community and the Safeguarding of Children
GUEST POST Recently, a contributor posted a link here to a video entitled ‘Safeguarding Children in Faith Activities’. The video was produced for the ‘NSPCC Multi faith safeguarding hub’ and related to safeguarding young […]
Whitewashing, Dishonesty & Culture of Abuse in the Triratna Buddhist Order (TBO)
Guest Post The real beauty of a sexual relationship between an Order Member and a Mitra is that if the OM is sufficiently mature then the other person stands to gain considerably from the experience. […]
A Chronicle of Elliot Sperling
Tsering Woeser in remembrance of the late Elliot Sperling (1951-2017) I. On one occasion — I don’t remember when over these last few years, because Elliot has come to Beijing a few times; he couldn’t […]
A Brief Clarification About the “ExposingKultcharaA” Site & Some Mean Tsem Tulku Followers’ (Kechara) Tactics
by Tenzin Peljor There is a blog exposingkultchara.wordpress.com which deals with the cyber methods of Tsem Tulku and his followers. The blog is run anonymously. It has recently posted a post “Kultchara’s public meltdown”. Tsem Tulku followers […]
