GUEST POST by VETTED CONTRIBUTOR Update: Karmapa Agrees to Multimillion-Dollar Settlement with Mother of his Child, Source Says (January 9, 2023) A court-mandated paternity test has proven conclusively that the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje fathered […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
Controversies, cultish tendencies and abuse in Buddhism
A Disheartening Article: Stuart Lachs & Rob Hogendoorn on the Dalai Lama
Update Jan. 2022: Stuart Lachs wrote an article in reply to this article and the subsequent discussion to it we had on this blog. My comment to Stuart’s article can be read here. (Tenzin Peljor) By […]
Hurts within the Karma Kagyu school – Is it time for a change of heart?
Guest Post by Joanne Clark The latest troubles within the Karma Kagyu¹ look like the last gasp of the Tibetan tulku system. This is my opinion of course, but honestly, how can this system be […]
Buddhism Panel Discussion at 2017 International Cultic Studies Association Conference
GUEST POST In 2012 I presented an essay called Zen Has No Morals! at the annual conference of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) in my home town of Montreal, Canada. The paper discussed […]
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 […]
Fact-finding results in response to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by Dagri Rinpoche
Exactly 18 months ago, on May 16, 2019¹ a group of well respected senior Buddhist nuns urged the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) “to commission an independent, third-party investigation” into multiple […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 