Tag: New Religious Movements

Buddhism by tenpelMay 30, 20149:47 am

The Organizational Similarities Between Scientology and the New Kadampa Tradition, and the Impact on the ISC’s Shugden Protest Campaign

GUEST POST It struck me that last year the British based independent charity INFORM – providing reliable and up-to-date information about cults, sects, new religious movements (NRMs) etc., founded in 1988 by Professor Eileen […]

New Kadampa Tradition by tenpelMay 12, 201412:03 pm

New Kadampa Tradition: From Ancient Kadampa to Modern Buddhism

I don’t know if you realized that NKT has a new way of promoting itself by giving itself a new identity. While in the past they reached out to the masses as the inheritor of […]

Buddhism by tenpelJul 27, 20121:46 am

Kadampa Primary School Derbyshire – A Happiness Cult?

The controversial New Kadamapa Tradition (aka Kadampa Buddhism, NKT) is going to run a Primary School in Derbyshire (UK) – “the first in the world to follow the works of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a meditation master […]

Buddhism by tenpelJul 13, 20125:47 pm

New Kadampa Tradition – INFORM 2011 – Extremism on University Campuses

In their Annual Report 2011 INFORM reports to have received the most inquiries with respect to the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) / Kadampa Buddhism, founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1991. Also in 2008 and […]

Buddhism by tenpelMay 17, 20128:58 pm

Ethics and Safety

GUEST POST It was heartbreaking to read of the recent tragic events at Diamond Mountain University (DMU), the center run by Michael Roach in Arizona … It is difficult to unravel the events which unfolded […]

Buddhism by tenpelMay 4, 201210:56 am

Ex-NKT as an Identity

The following is a post by a former member of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT-IKBU) I’ve been ex-NKT now for longer than I was a member of this organisation. Recently, reading about ex-Catholics, I managed […]