I Am Not Your Teacher by Andrea Ballance The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the […]
Tag: New Kadampa Tradition · Kadampa Buddhism
Open Letter by Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New Kadampa Tradition’s Maitreya Buddhist Centre
GUEST POST – re-posted with prior permission from the author I think it might be useful to post here the open letter I wrote back in 2012 in my attempt to try and summarise how […]
The story of a New Kadampa Tradition nun: “Disrobing”
GUEST POST My name is Andrea Ballance. I was a member of the New Kadampa Tradition. I was ordained in this tradition. I was a fully absorbed, dedicated, misguided and later an abandoned devotee of […]
More and more testimonies from former New Kadampa Tratition (NKT) followers
Over the last weeks three new public testimonies written by “New Kadmapa Survivors” have been posted under the real name of each author on the New Kadampa Survivor Actvists Facebook Group. In a new […]
The Benefits of the Anti-Dalai Lama protests by the Shugden group (NKT/ICS)
DALAI LAMA GIVE PATIENCE! DALAI LAMA STOP ANGER! I think it is important to reflect from different angles about the NKT/ICS protests. On a mundane and spiritual level you can establish many good reasons why […]
Ordained Too Early: An NKT Survivor Tale (Another New Kadampa Tradition Monk’s Story)
GUEST POST by Rob Someone suggested I tell my story, so thought I’d write a bit here about my time in the NKT, in case it’s interesting or helpful to anyone. There’s nothing incredibly […]
