The following video from 2008 shows how China uses the Shugden issue to create schism and how China covers and destroys Padmasambhava statues and how these and other developments in India led the Dalai Lama […]
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Buddhist monk.
The Organizational Similarities Between Scientology and the New Kadampa Tradition, and the Impact on the ISC’s Shugden Protest Campaign
GUEST POST It struck me that last year the British based independent charity INFORM – providing reliable and up-to-date information about cults, sects, new religious movements (NRMs) etc., founded in 1988 by Professor Eileen […]
No Naming Names – The CTA Should Continue with A Measured Response
GUEST POST The CTA’s frustration at the false allegations and constant campaigning of the Shugden Movement is understandable, but their decision to publish names and photos¹ of those participating in the protest is not an […]
The religious and political freedom of Shugden monks
If you read the propaganda of International Shugden Community and pro Shugden groups, people who do not know the situation in India might start to believe that they are heavily oppressed and cannot move from […]
Cultural Chauvinism: The Flavour of the Shugden Protesters’ (NKT’s) Latest Campaign Against the Dalai Lama
GUEST POST The anti-Tibetan rhetoric of the New Kadampa Tradition’s International Shugden Campaign is beginning to take on a decidedly racist flavour. Words like backward, barbaric, feudal, foolish and violent are being tossed around very […]
New Kadampa Tradition: From Ancient Kadampa to Modern Buddhism
I don’t know if you realized that NKT has a new way of promoting itself by giving itself a new identity. While in the past they reached out to the masses as the inheritor of […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 