The book “Dakini Power – Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West” by Michaela Haas (PhD) offers advice by Her Eminence Jetsünma Khandro Rinpoche with respect to sexual abuse as […]
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The West must unite to resist Chinese bullying against those who meet Tibet’s leaders
The following quote is an article by Edward Lucas, International Editor of The Economist, that was originally published online by European Voice. The Tibet season has opened again, with a dire warning to the British government […]
The Dalai Lama and the King Demon – Dorje Shugden by Raimondo Bultrini
… the Buddhist movement never tries to destroy evil absolutely, as it would be evil to do so. Instead, it seeks to transform evil into good, turning even demonic entities into ‘protectors of freedom’ (dharmapala) […]
Is the NKT a Personality Cult? – A Check Based on Word Statistics
In Germany there is a politician, Peer Steinbrück, who runs a campaign “More We, less I”. Spiegel Online investigated in a ‘Münchhausen Check’ if Steinbrück really says what he preaches by investigating two of his […]
Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims? Alan Strathern on BBC News
In a recent post, Buddhist Monks as Hate Preachers & Sexual Abuse, I mainly referred to sad developments within the global Buddhist community where Buddhist monks spread words of hate, actions that harm others, themselves as […]
NKT Tharpaland: The Windfarm Study – A Nocebo Effect?
In a recent post, NKT monks beat retreat over wind farm – from Tharpaland to Schloss Sommerswalde, the selling of Tharpaland and a study was discussed that claimed rather heavy negative effects of the infrasound from […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 