In Germany there is a politician, Peer Steinbrück, who runs a campaign “More We, less I”. Spiegel Online investigated in a ‘Münchhausen Check’ if Steinbrück really says what he preaches by investigating two of his […]
Tag: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Is forsaking the Guru, Kelsang Gyatso, worse than the karma generated by Hitler and Mao Tse Tung?
Offline there was a brief email discussion about an advice Lama Zopa Rinpoche is giving here: Forsaking a Guru (Advice given 4 April 1998) We had already a discussion at E-Sangha in 2007 about […]
Geshe Kelsang Calls Seattle Non-NKT Practitioners Dogs
GUEST POST Hello, my name is Frank Hopper. I became a disciple of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in July of 1990. I served briefly as the Administrative Director of Vajralama center in Seattle in the spring of […]
The Birth of the New Kadampa Tradition ‘Lineage’: ‘Teething Problems’
GUEST POST Recently, a poster on this blog spoke of “cases of denial, which, in the current climate here in the UK, especially with regard to sexual exploitation, are relevant. These are related to individual’s […]
Kadampa Primary School Derbyshire – A Happiness Cult?
The controversial New Kadamapa Tradition (aka Kadampa Buddhism, NKT) is going to run a Primary School in Derbyshire (UK) – “the first in the world to follow the works of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a meditation master […]
New Kadampa Tradition – INFORM 2011 – Extremism on University Campuses
In their Annual Report 2011 INFORM reports to have received the most inquiries with respect to the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) / Kadampa Buddhism, founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1991. Also in 2008 and […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 