The following is another letter by Carol McQuire to Kelsang Rabten in reply to his interview posted on YouTube and the dorjeshugden[.]com site. Kelsang Rabten, in your first interview, you state that it was ‘outrageous’ for […]
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The divorce from the Shugden monks: Is segregation “the Dalai Lama’s discrimination against Shugdens”?
I always wondered – besides all their other false accusations, propaganda, untruths and spin of the facts – why the New Kadampa Tradition via their front groups WSS & ISC make such a big fuss […]

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’, […]
Dear Kelsang Rabten
GUEST POST by Carol McQuire Dear Kelsang Rabten, This is addressed to you because of the contrast I feel between the mild mannered man in the suit at the talk at SOAS on August 15th […]
‘Shugden practitioners or Shugden followers’? Thoughts about my Shugden practice in the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT).
by Carol McQuire Thank you for asking me to talk.* I will speak about what I think Shugden practice is in the New Kadampa Tradition or NKT. I believe that the NKT is […]

A brief Review of the New Kadampa Tradition Chapter in: “Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World”
Former members of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT), as well as spiritual seekers might be in a better position after reading Carol McQuire’s chapter about her experiences within NKT in: McQuire, Carol (2013), “Realizing […]