Originally posted on The Imperfect Buddha Podcast:
I generally avoid getting political on this blog. Not because I am apolitical, or think it too messy a subject to broach, but because I have used this…
Tag: Modern Buddhism
The story of a New Kadampa Tradition monk or How I got sucked into a cult
My name is Tenzin Peljor / Michael Jäckel. I was 29 when I met the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) in December 1995. At that time the general public didn’t know about any controversy relating to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
New Kadampa Tradition: Never mix with Tibetan Buddhists, they can cause “great spiritual confusion” and are dangerous for your “purity”
New Kadampa Tradition International Kadampa Buddhist Union To all NKT-IKBU Centres 05 August 2010 Dear Administrative Directors, Because of the potential for great spiritual confusion both now and in the future, we advise and request […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 