GUEST POST Today, the 29th of September 2008 will be remembered by most people as the day that the Wall Street bailout bill failed to pass in the US Senate. However, for Buddhists, it will […]
Tag: Dorje Shugden
A Biased Historical Narrative Does Not History Make
GUEST POST The Western Shugden Society (WSS) has recently carried a poorly researched essay titled “The Lama Policy: Freedom from the Drug” without cited sources, only a vague claim that the “paper” is based […]
Bodhisattva Centre Open Day – Review and Reply
GUEST POST Small description of Information giving event at Bodhisattva Centre Open Day We stood outside the Centre and gave visitors a handout explaining that the Buddhist tradition they were visiting organises protests against the […]
A forgotten perspective – Who is persecuted?
Who is persecuted and whose human rights are being violated? The Western Shugden Society (WSS), a front group of the controversial[1] New Kadampa Tradition (NKT), and some Shugden followers stress accusations against the Dalai […]
A Small Protest of Former New Kadampa Tradition’s Members
GUEST POST September 6, 2008, the New Kadampa Tradition Center, Bodhisattva Centre Brighton, offered an Open Day for the general public. Two former NKT members, one of them a former NKT teacher, engaged in 5 […]
Religious Fundamentalism in Buddhism
The protests of the Western Shugden Society (WSS) / New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and Kundeling Lama’s[1] lawsuit against the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile[1], India, invite reflection on the issue of fundamentalism […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 