By Carol McQuire I was looking up the recent origin of the phrase ‘Shugden Buddhists’ when researching a commentary on the New Kadampa Tradition’s recent letters denying the valid lineage of Trijang Choktrul […]
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An Open Letter from the International Shugden Buddhist Community (ISBC) / New Kadampa Tradition (NKT)
Today, on Tibetan Uprising Day (10th March 2017) the New Kadampa Tradition (aka NKT, Kadampa Buddhism, Modern Buddhism, Kadampa Meditation Center) posted a new divisive letter that has the potential to create more unnecessary disunity […]
How China’s Communist Party gets its propaganda into the Australian media
According to ABC Media Watch, Fairfax media publications – including The Age and Sydney Morning Herald – are accepting money from the Chinese government to print stories, biased towards Chinese view. UK’s Daily Telegraph has […]

Who is demonstrating against the Dalai Lama? [Questions and Answers about the New Kadampa Tradition]
By Carol McQuire Who is demonstrating against the Dalai Lama? The protests against His Holiness the Dalai Lama are organised by the International Shugden Community (ISC) whose directors are senior teachers and members of the […]
Is there no medical treatment for Shugden followers as Anti-Dalai Lama protesters claim?
ISC/NKT MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE TIBETAN MONASTERIES IN INDIA CLARIFIED By Carol McQuire The latest ISC/NKT leaflet ‘evidence’ of prejudice against Shugden practitioners states that the Shugden monks and families in India do […]

Indy Hack – the tools of a “journalist”
“IndyHack” runs the site arebuddhistsracist.com. The site obviously aims to denounce and slander anybody correcting the false allegations, spins and exaggerations of the NKT/ISC Anti Dalai Lama campaign – including scientists, academic institutions, and former NKT […]