There is a tremendous potential for abuse in this idea of trying to see all the behaviours of the guru as pure, of seeing everything the guru does as enlightened. I have stated that this […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
Controversies, cultish tendencies and abuse in Buddhism
Full Ordination for Women: Thailand’s Buddhist nuns cautiously lobby for legal recognition
Thai Bhikkhunis have their own limitations, not just because they number only 25 compared with the approximate 200,000 male monks here. They lack legal recognition – a denial that accompanies various withholdings of public benefits, […]
NKT monks beat retreat over wind farm – from Tharpaland to Schloss Sommerswalde
Selling Tharpaland The Sunday Times (Mark Macaskill) has published an article about the selling of NKT’s Tharpaland to one of Britain’s largest energy firms who builds close by a wind farm. “The monks” of […]
The Bodhisattva & Sexuality – The Skill In Means Sutra
We had some discussion on the blog about ethics & safety. We mainly looked onto the ethics from the point of view of the Vinaya, and we only slightly touched the ethics from the […]
China is criminalizing self-immolators, arresting protesters’ friends and confiscating thousands of satellite TV dishes
Nearly 100 Tibetan monks, nuns and lay people have set themselves on fire since 2009. All of them calling for Beijing to allow greater religious freedom and the return from exile of the Tibetan spiritual […]
Reflections of a former New Kadampa (NKT) practitioner
I received a link today with posts from someone who left NKT. The reflections add new perspectives on NKT, rarely stressed. The following two points from “But the teachings work don’t they?” I feel important […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 