Here is a copy of an announcement of a conference at SOAS at the 15th August 2014 in London. The Shugden Controversy and the 14th Dalai Lama Date: 15 August 2014Time: 6:00 PM Finishes: 15 […]
Category: Religion
To Protest or Not to Protest: What is an NKT Student to Think?
GUEST POST by Joanne Clark Dear NKT students, fellow brothers and sisters in the Dharma. It is my belief that most of you are sincere, goodhearted, well meaning practitioners of the Buddha’s Dharma. None of […]
The last Upholder of the Gelug Mahamudra Tradition: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
In the past it was the designated successor of Kelsang Gyatso, Kadam Neil Elliott, who claimed that the (whole) Vajrayana Mahamudra tradition is only existent in the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and not outside […]
Bringing the Nalanda Tradition to the West: Reflections and Challenges
Dharma Studies in the West: The FPMT Master’s Program Since the time of the Buddha, approximately 2,500 years ago, the Buddhist teachings have been transmitted in an uninterrupted lineage, eventually reaching Tibet and flourishing there […]
The New Kadampa Tradition / Kadampa Buddhism: The Real Danger
GUEST POST by Robert – a former NKT monk The Real Danger If you are a scifi fan, you may remember the old television show, ‘Stargate: SG1’, where in the later series there were two […]
Dalai Lama: Good and bad Buddhist monks in Tibetan Buddhism
If we look back, many of the things we did in Tibet were wrong — like sectarianism, not … paying enough attention to monks’ Vinaya rules. If we continue with this kind of system, Buddhism […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 