GUEST POST Small description of Information giving event at Bodhisattva Centre Open Day We stood outside the Centre and gave visitors a handout explaining that the Buddhist tradition they were visiting organises protests against the […]
Tag: Western Shugden Society / International Shugden Community
A forgotten perspective – Who is persecuted?
Who is persecuted and whose human rights are being violated? The Western Shugden Society (WSS), a front group of the controversial[1] New Kadampa Tradition (NKT), and some Shugden followers stress accusations against the Dalai […]
A Small Protest of Former New Kadampa Tradition’s Members
GUEST POST September 6, 2008, the New Kadampa Tradition Center, Bodhisattva Centre Brighton, offered an Open Day for the general public. Two former NKT members, one of them a former NKT teacher, engaged in 5 […]
Religious Fundamentalism in Buddhism
The protests of the Western Shugden Society (WSS) / New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and Kundeling Lama’s[1] lawsuit against the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile[1], India, invite reflection on the issue of fundamentalism […]
(Un) Holy Truth’s
The following thoughts have been posted by Buddhism under Assault. (Un)Holy Truths The polemic of the NKT and WSS has, in recent weeks, become more aggressive and unkind. In attempting to use shock journalism in […]
How Buddhists view the protests of NKT/WSS
Loud is the noise that ordinary men make. Nobody thinks himself a fool, when divisions arise in the Sangha, nor do they ever value another person higher than themselves. – The Buddha, Mahavagga Since the […]
Tibetan Buddhism – Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues 