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. […]
Author: tenpel
Buddhist monk.
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 […]
“Lock the door.” – I was devoted to a great Buddhist master, and then I quit.
by Mimi, former Dakini Sogyal Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist master supported by the Dalai Lama. He is the author of the best-selling “Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.” He heads the Rigpa Association, a […]
Submission, devotion and sexual abuse: my investigation of Buddhism in France
By Marion Dapsance Anthropologist In the minds of Westerners, Buddhism is “secular spirituality”, a “science of the spirit”, in short: something perfectly rational. A few years ago, I began reading books on meditation, before wanting […]
Reflecting on my Time in Rigpa and with Sogyal Rinpoche
GUEST POST Dear friends, I too was in Rigpa for a long time and had different experiences, also difficult ones that were similar to some of the things already expressed in this blog. That was […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 