The Journal of Global Buddhism has published a special focus section that grew out of the Heartwood/Northwestern Symposium (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, October 2024), described by the editors as the first ever academic conference on […]
Controversies, abuse, and cultish tendencies in Buddhist communities
Category: Religion
Researchers Need Your Input: A New Tool to Assess Religious and Spiritual Trauma
A graduate researcher at the University of Illinois Springfield is developing the first standardized assessment tool for religious and spiritual trauma — and is looking for participants to help validate it. The Multidimensional Religious and […]
Cultic Experiences: The Untold Consequences and How to Find Healing
Guest Post By Nina Drew Around 0.5-3% of people (between 1.65 million to 6.6 million individuals) are involved in a cult at some point in their life and those that finally break free often have […]
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 […]
Launch of ‘Recovery from The New Kadampa Tradition’ resources website
Dr Michelle Haslam, clinical psychologist and ex-resident of a New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) centre, has teamed up with several collaborators and supporters to relaunch her report based website http://www.newkadampatraditionreport.org. The site now also links to […]
A New Book: Understanding the Case Against Shukden: The History of a Contested Tibetan Practice
A new book on Shugden, or Dölgyal, Understanding the Case Against Shukden: The History of a Contested Tibetan Practice, has been published. Three authoritative Gelug organizations—the Association of Gelug Masters, the Gelug International Foundation, and […]