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: New Religious Movement
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 […]
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 […]
New Kadampa Buddhism – New Kadampa Tradition – A Summery of a Research
In 2012 a paper, New Kadampa Buddhists and Jungian psychological type, about the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) was published in the journal Mental Health, Religion & Culture Volume 15, Issue 10 that hasn’t received much […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 