A prisoner recommended yesterday this film by Vikram Gandhi to me. The movie highlights the naive devotion of Westerners to Asian gurus as well as the issue of that even blind faith in wrong gurus […]
Author: tenpel
Buddhist monk.
Four Young Tulkus In The West – Details About What Happened To Kalu Rinpoche
The Magazine Details has written an article about four young tulkus in the West. Of course they have taken only the examples of four persons who are interesting because they chose a somewhat different life […]
Kadampa Primary School Derbyshire – A Happiness Cult?
The controversial New Kadamapa Tradition (aka Kadampa Buddhism, NKT) is going to run a Primary School in Derbyshire (UK) – “the first in the world to follow the works of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a meditation master […]
‘Zen Has No Morals’ – The Cases of Eido T. Shimano (USA), and Dr. Klaus Zernickow (Germany)
Christopher Hamacher (Germany, Munich) presented an academic paper on 7 July 2012 at the International Cultic Studies Association’s (ICSA) annual conference in Montreal, Canada. His paper has been uploaded to The Zen Site and it […]
Charity Commission and the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT)
It might be good to question the work of the Charity Commission (CC) with respect to the the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT). The New Kadampa Tradition is proudly claiming to have a constitution which is […]
Reform and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
GUEST POST There is much discussion on this website and others about the troubles in western dharma centers and the need for western students to take charge of reform and new directions in the dharma. […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 