I don’t know if you realized that NKT has a new way of promoting itself by giving itself a new identity. While in the past they reached out to the masses as the inheritor of […]
Category: Religion
New Kadampa Tradition, Shugden and the Dangers of an Exclusivist Attitude
GUEST POST by Joanne Clark Recently, I sat for long hours throughout the night and day beside my mother’s bed as she lay dying. I sang her hymns. I read her verses from the bible. […]
The Dalai Lama Responds to the Protests: Sectarianism and Shugden Worship
With respect to virtue, act in accord with the gurus’ words, but do not act in accord with the gurus’ words with respect to nonvirtue. – Buddha¹ Through taking sides the mind is distressed, Whereby […]
The Dangers of Meditation. Advice for Meditators. An interview with Leigh Brasington by Willoughby Britton.
You might have heard that there are people who did retreat but came back rather insane than sane? Then there are people for whom meditation works very well, they become more grounded. Why is this? […]
Founder of Tibet’s Communist Party makes a final plea for Dalai Lama’s return
The founder of Tibet’s Communist Party has pleaded with the Chinese central government to allow the return of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to his homeland in an autobiography soon to be published in […]
The greater the light, the greater the shadow – One has to learn from it all, even from misdirected gurus
A friend sent me a link to a very useful article about the traps of unhealthy relationships between Westerners and their gurus or Buddhist teachers. Here an excerpt: Many Westerners who turn to the […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 