Retain your reverence and admiration for the person, but subject the writing to thorough critical analysis. – A Tibetan saying Someone sent me a link to a post by Tsem Tulku, The 14th Dalai Lama’s prayer to […]
Category: Religion
The Secular vs. the Spiritual: Is India Squandering Its Top Export: The Buddha?
Secular values are the values that citizens share regardless of their religious differences; secular policies are policies to which citizens can be expected to give rational consent regardless of their religious commitments. – Jay Garfield […]
The psychological pitfalls of integrating an Eastern spirituality into a modern Western context (Spiritual by-passing)
By Coline R. Moore (This was originally written as an essay submitted for a counselling qualification and thus is a bit academic – however some people might find it useful.) The disciple is unworthy; modestly […]
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s »Modern Buddhism« – Who are the Kadampas? – Geshe Tashi clears the distortion of four Kadampa deities
This is part 3 of many to follow. Geshe Tashi Tsering explains what Kadampa is and what the four Kadampa deities are which Kelsang Gyatso distorted, replacing Miyowa with Shugden. These videos are aimed as an […]
Why Buddhist men shouldn’t be ordained
Originally posted on Sujato’s Blog:
Just because I can’t resist. 10. A man’s place is in the workforce, where he can earn money to donate to nuns. 9. Mens’ avoidant and primitive ways of…
The Special Teacher Training Programme in Kadampa Buddhism (STTP) – Student Agreement
Here is a document the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) asked their students to sign after they had enrolled for the “Special Teacher Training Programme in Kadampa Buddhism (STTP)” at the Kadampa Meditation Centre London. The students of the […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 