GUEST POST by Carol McQuire Fear of ghosts I’ve been thinking lately that the problem with ‘Shugden’ is that he makes people frightened. And people are frightened of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT). In the […]
Tag: Kadampa Buddhism
Tenzin Dorjee sets the record straight on the Huffington Post: 6 Things You Should Know About the Anti-Dalai Lama Protesters
I am amazed to see that writers and journalists awake a bit and start to inform the public about the Shugden Controversy and the Dalai Lama protests in a more investigative manner. The HuffPost […]
Some messages from the Dalai Lama to the protesters
No spiritual teaching can be taken “at face value,” the Dalai Lama added — a remark that may have been aimed as much at the swarms of protesters gathered outside the Beacon Theater as it […]
Kelsang Gyatso’s Teachings for Westerners – ‘From Dharma into Dogma?’
GUEST POST by Carol McQuire (Provisional notes) This is a short general summary of what Kelsang Gyatso taught and how. In 1977, he was invited by Lama Yeshe to teach at ‘Manjushri Institute’, […]
Last time I saw Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
GUEST POST Last time I saw him we stayed there the whole week. We spent a fortune of course. This was last year in October. When we arrived from that empowerment and retreat we began […]
The Monk Who Had No Confidence: ‘Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche’
GUEST POST by Carol McQuire I write with sadness and shock about a person who was my ‘teacher’ for 12 years. I have researched Kelsang Gyatso’s life for the last three months. I have consulted […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 