The zealous, successful and media savvy Anti-Dalai Lama campaigners try to push more and more the misleading claim that the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) is not the power behind the International Shugden Community (ISC) and the international […]
Tag: Religious Extremism
Religious Trauma Syndrome – Leaving a Religious Extremist or Fundamentalist Group
Yesterday I met a friend I have not seen since 20 years. He was quite amazed to hear that on my encounter with Buddhism I got sucked into Buddhist cults (NKT, GTC). He wondered […]
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 […]
Italian Tibetan Buddhist centers’ statement concerning the cult of Dolgyal/Shugden and the protests against the Dalai Lama
Shugden protests in Livorno, Italy June 9, 2014 12:39 pm We the undersigned Buddhist centers wish to express our full confidence in and respect for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and our complete agreement with […]
Shugden-Dalai Lama protests 2014: Responses to the campaigning of the Western Shugden group
The New Kadampa Tradtion (NKT) was able to generate a lot of attention to their anti-Dalai Lama campaigning (via one of their front organizations, the International Shugden Community) in the US in February and March […]
The New Kadampa Traditon – Purity Troubles
If you ever encounter or are/were affiliated with the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) (aka “Kadampa Buddhism”) you will meet and learn four important concepts: the term purity, that “Geshe-la is a Buddha” [or it would […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 