No spiritual teaching can be taken “at face value,” the Dalai Lama added — a remark that may have been aimed as much at the swarms of protesters gathered outside the Beacon Theater as it […]
Category: Dorje Shugden Controversy
Huffington Post About The Current Wave of “Protest Demonstrations” Against His Holiness the Dalai Lama
by Prof Robert Thurman Concerning The Current Wave of “Protest Demonstrations” Against His Holiness the Dalai Lama by the Just-formed New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) Shugden Protest Front Group, The International Shugden Community (ISC). In the […]
The making of a Shugden hub in the United States
By Thierry Dodin / TIN In early October 2014, followers of the Dorje Shugden cult dedicated a monastery in the United States, which they plan as their major American hub. The event, attended by many […]
Last time I saw Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
GUEST POST Last time I saw him we stayed there the whole week. We spent a fortune of course. This was last year in October. When we arrived from that empowerment and retreat we began […]
Lazy Media: The Dalai Lama in Canada and the U.S. met by Shugden protesters
Until now the media in Canada and the U.S. mainly gave a lot of space to the accusations of the Anti Dalai Lama protesters and repeated their allegations in almost all cases without asking any […]
What is the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT)?
GUEST POST by Carol McQuire The NKT-IKBU (International Kadampa Buddhist Union) is a controversial New Religious Movement – different from mainstream Buddhist groups – created by one Tibetan Buddhist monk called Kelsang Gyatso in 1992. There […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 