Guest Post by Carol McQuire A reliable witness has confirmed that Kelsang Gyatso died on September 17th 2022 and was cremated on September 27th 2022 at Barrow Crematorium, Cumbria. There was no service. Only close […]
Controversies, abuse, and cultish tendencies in Buddhist communities
Category: Buddhism
Hurts within the Karma Kagyu school – Is it time for a change of heart?
Guest Post by Joanne Clark The latest troubles within the Karma Kagyu¹ look like the last gasp of the Tibetan tulku system. This is my opinion of course, but honestly, how can this system be […]
Buddhism Panel Discussion at 2017 International Cultic Studies Association Conference
GUEST POST In 2012 I presented an essay called Zen Has No Morals! at the annual conference of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) in my home town of Montreal, Canada. The paper discussed […]
A Call For Impartial Compassion
If you look from the point of view of cultivating or acting from an impartial compassion, a compassion that goes out to everybody equally, you can view abusive situations within Buddhist communities from four different […]
Fact-finding results in response to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by Dagri Rinpoche
Exactly 18 months ago, on May 16, 2019¹ a group of well respected senior Buddhist nuns urged the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) “to commission an independent, third-party investigation” into multiple […]
Expressions of Whiteness in Buddhism
By Kaitlyn Hatch Recently the Black Lives Matter movement has gained incredible momentum, first in the United States and now globally. We are seeing a potential tipping point of white people committed to anti-racist actions […]