The following is another letter by Carol McQuire to Kelsang Rabten in reply to his interview posted on YouTube and the dorjeshugden[.]com site. Kelsang Rabten, in your first interview, you state that it was ‘outrageous’ for […]
Category: New Kadampa Tradition
A Tibetan Translator’s Testimony by Tenzing Wangdak
GUEST POST My Diary – The Ticking Bomb That Took 23 Years To Explode My name is Tenzing Wangdak. I woke up at around 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning, December 17th, 2014. I was […]
Buddhist Bullshit
Originally posted on The Imperfect Buddha Podcast:
I generally avoid getting political on this blog. Not because I am apolitical, or think it too messy a subject to broach, but because I have used this…
Concerning The Protests At The Teachings Of H.H. The Dalai Lama: A Resolution Proposal II
Dear Nicholas Pitts/Kelsang Rabten, Re: Resolution of the Shugden Conflict by the Removal of its Causes First of all, can I thank you for responding in a spirit which demonstrates a sincere wish to resolve […]
The story of a New Kadampa Tradition monk or How I got sucked into a cult
My name is Tenzin Peljor / Michael Jäckel. I was 29 when I met the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) in December 1995. At that time the general public didn’t know about any controversy relating to the […]
Open Letter by Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New Kadampa Tradition’s Maitreya Buddhist Centre
GUEST POST – re-posted with prior permission from the author I think it might be useful to post here the open letter I wrote back in 2012 in my attempt to try and summarise how […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 