The final point he makes is that the Dalai Lama is often accused by the pro-Shugden side as suppressing freedom of religion. “This accusation makes no sense,” states Dr Hill. “The Dalai Lama is not head […]
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Why do Buddhists – especially but not exclusively ‘Kadampa Buddhists’ – fear enlightenment?
Recently a monastic elder from Switzerland pointed out an article from the New York Times that was reprinted in an Indian newspaper, the Deccan Herald. Omri Boehm, an Israeli, criticizes in The German silence on […]
A Tibetan Translator’s Testimony by Tenzing Wangdak – Part 2
The Ticking Bomb That Took 23 Years to Explode. Part Two This present writing is a sequel to my previous Tibetan Translator’s Testimony. By Tenzing Wangdak It was in April 1991, thoughts on recent […]
The Buddhists Who Hate the Dalai Lama More Than the Chinese Do
Dorje Shugden is an obscure trickster spirit, believed to have originated in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in the 17th century. And though the spirit’s followers in the Western world probably number only a few thousand, […]
@IndyHack
Update Dec 3, 2014 @IndyHack who harasses, defames and harms under the guise of human rights rhetoric on Twitter and on his “arebuddhistsracist.com” site the Dalai Lama, scholars, Buddhist monks and the Tibetans – including […]
Shugden and the New Kadampa Tradition: Fear of Ghosts
GUEST POST by Carol McQuire Fear of ghosts I’ve been thinking lately that the problem with ‘Shugden’ is that he makes people frightened. And people are frightened of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT). In the […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 