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 […]

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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is a new website totally dedicated to the Shugden Controversy and the Shugden / Anti-Dalai Lama protests that contains information, clarifications and refutations of the key claims of the campaigning Western Shugden group (NKT/ICS). The […]
GUEST POST by Ex-NKT Concise information for a broader public Even though the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) tries to distance itself from the International Shugden Community, and from another of its groups, the Western Shugden […]
GUEST POST by Ex-NKT Concise information for a broader public The Dalai Lama recommended a change in 1977. Was this really the beginning of ‘religious persecution’? In 1977, as Tibet’s pre-eminent spiritual leader and a […]
GUEST POST by Ex-NKT Concise information for a broader public Kelsang Gyatso’s Tibetan Relations Kelsang Gyatso is the Tibetan Buddhist monk who founded his own New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) in 1992. He has lived in […]
False information increase more rapidly than true information. And what is not getting any better, is our ability to separate truth and lies. – Michael Lynch The New Kadampa Tradtion (NKT) campaigners – via their […]
GUEST POST by Joanne Clark I was sad to read the recent rant published online by “Kadampa Ryan” entitled Ten Valid Reasons to Conclude That Tenzin Gyatso is a False Dalai Lama. (PDF) I, […]
The New Kadampa Tradition about the “Modern Buddhism Event“: Wake Up Smiling Find out how to greet each day with a smile and see new opportunities in every encounter. In this talk we will learn […]
This blog, Joanne Clark’s blog (who “revealed 32 deceptive statements and 16 unsubstantiated claims“), the official CTA website, and the official Dalai Lama website have pointed out different blatant untruths and spin of the facts […]
GUEST POST by Ani Tsultrim The Buddhist monk, Tenzin Peljor, on his blog, “Tibetan Buddhism: Struggling with Difficult Issues:” writes: Over the past two decades and, more recently during his tour of the US, the […]
Here are some facts: The International Shugden Community (ISC) protesters claim that there is “overwhelming evidence” that Shugden worshippers are being persecuted by the Dalai Lama and his followers and that human rights violations abound. […]
There are so many wrong and misleading claims and allegations by the International Shugden Community (ICS) / New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) that it is almost impossible to address and to correct them all. Joanne […]
The following is a revised and abbreviated version of the Declaration by New Kadampa Survivors concerning the Demonstrations against His Holiness. We, the undersigned, as former members of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT), and ex-practitioners of […]
GUEST POST by Carol McQuire Dear Kelsang Rabten, This is addressed to you because of the contrast I feel between the mild mannered man in the suit at the talk at SOAS on August 15th […]
We had a brief mention and summery of Samdhong Rinpoche’s speech about Shugden at Suja TCV School here. The campaigning Western Shugden propagandists, who have no knowledge of Tibetan language and culture, have repeatedly and falsely […]
Trijang Rinpoche’s view on Dorje Shugden / Dolgyal and why Shugden harms sentient beings The Shugden protesters from the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and their ICS spokes persons (usually a NKT teacher or a NKT […]
DALAI LAMA GIVE PATIENCE! DALAI LAMA STOP ANGER! I think it is important to reflect from different angles about the NKT/ICS protests. On a mundane and spiritual level you can establish many good reasons why […]
Going back to my time in NKT from 1995–2000, I remember the point in 1996 when the Dalai Lama was introduced to me as being a bad person who “oppresses religious freedom”, as a politician […]
GUEST POST by Joanne Clark At the SOAS conference, Rabten began his talk by stating: “I’d like to make quite clear that we’re not here to argue. We very much want to move towards a […]