GUEST POST by Joanne Clark Dear NKT students, fellow brothers and sisters in the Dharma. It is my belief that most of you are sincere, goodhearted, well meaning practitioners of the Buddha’s Dharma. None of […]
Tag: religious freedom
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 […]
The religious and political freedom of Shugden monks
If you read the propaganda of International Shugden Community and pro Shugden groups, people who do not know the situation in India might start to believe that they are heavily oppressed and cannot move from […]
Dorje Shugden Controversy: Protests Against The Dalai Lama – An Interview With Tibetologist Thierry Dodin & A New Statetment By The Kashag
There is a new and up-to-date interview with Thierry Dodin – a Tibetologist – about the Shugden conflict, the different Shugden groups, the role of the New Kadampa Tradition, and about the assertions and allegations […]
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 Dalai Lama on Sectarianism, Religious Freedom and the Shugden Issue
So in fact, restricting a form of practice that restricts others’ religious freedom is actually a protection of religious freedom. So in other words, negation of a negation is an affirmation. Spoken During a […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 