Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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Tenzin Peljor (Michael Jäckel) a fully ordained Buddhist monk addresses certain controversial issues related to Tibetan Buddhism, Tibet, the Dalai Lamas and Buddhism in general.
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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Guest Post By Nina Drew Around 0.5-3% of people (between 1.65 million to 6.6 million individuals) are involved in a cult at some point in their life and those that finally break free often have ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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Blog post by A Participant in the Heartwood Survivor Program We are only one of multiple ongoing survivor groups, including BIPOC survivors, created by Heartwood, an alternative medicine healing center outside Chicago in the United ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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On Saturday, 15 July 2023, there was an Inform seminar on “Harm in New and Minority Religions: Sources of Support” at King’s College London. Among other speakers¹ Gillie Jenkinson, Director of Hope Valley Counselling, gave ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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GUEST POST by VETTED CONTRIBUTOR The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, has agreed to a multimillion-dollar financial settlement with a woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by him in 2017, according to a ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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Guest Post by Aparimana In families with an alcoholic father, a pattern often develops where the rest of the family protects the father from the consequences of his actions. Everyone is in denial, and the ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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GUEST POST by VETTED CONTRIBUTOR A court-mandated paternity test has proven conclusively that the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje fathered a child with a woman, according to a source close to the Karmapa. The woman ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
2y ago
by Joanne Clark It is one thing to assess the actions of an individual in the public domain. It is quite another to assess that person’s motivations and character. The latter involves not only assessing ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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Guest Post by Joanne Clark The latest troubles within the Karma Kagyu¹ look like the last gasp of the Tibetan tulku system. This is my opinion of course, but honestly, how can this system be ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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GUEST POST In 2012 I presented an essay called Zen Has No Morals! at the annual conference of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) in my home town of Montreal, Canada. The paper discussed ..read more
Tibetan Buddhism :: Struggling With Diffi·Cult Issues
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If you look from the point of view of cultivating or acting from an impartial compassion, a compassion that goes out to everybody equally, you can view abusive situations within Buddhist communities from four different ..read more