External Links

Websites about the topic New Kadampa Tradition (NKT), Western Shugden Society (WSS) and Dorje Shugden

• NEW: At a Glance: The Setting of the New Kadampa Tradition, Dorje Shugden Controversy, and Western Shugden Society
• Tibetan Buddhism in the West … – Review website covering range of NKT & Shugden controversy + other contentious matters
• BBC Documentary – An Unholy Row
• New Kadampa Truths – Website by former NKT members
• Buddhism under assault – Critical review on Western Shugden Society’s / NKT’s activities
• DalaiLama.com – Messages and Speeches on Dholgyal (Shugden) by HH the Dalai Lama
• The CTA on Controversy surrounding Dorjee Shugden Practice – by the Central Tibetan Administration [1]
• Western Shugden Society – Official and controversial website of the Western Shugden Society
• New Kadampa Tradition – Official website of the New Kadampa Tradition
• New Kadampa Truth – “Fighting the Smears” – controversial website by the Secretary of NKT
• Point of view of Trinley Kalsang: Dorje Shugden History – Website of a Dorje Shugden follower once affiliated with NKT
• An anonymous academic point of view: Shugden Buddhism
• DorjeShugden.com – Anonymous and controversial website of Dorje Shugden supporters [2]
• Open Letter to the 14th Dalai Lama by the 6th Reting Hutktu

Websites on Controversial Discussed Buddhist Teachers

• A view on Buddhism: Controversial ‘Buddhist’ Teachers & Groups

Press Articles About Other Buddhist Controversies

• Lama Ole: Buddhist teacher or charlatan? by Joe Orso
• Controversial Buddhists (PDF) by MyWeekender.co.uk
• Lama sex abuse claims call Buddhist taboos into question [3] by Mary Finnigan in The Guardian
• The dark side of enlightenment by The Guardian (about Shantarakshita – FWBO – Tritratna) see also: Going For Refuge by BBC
• NEW: Geshe Michael Roach Files
• Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death by Fernanda Santos (New York Times)
• Stanford Grad Dies in Cave as World Peace Experiment Stumbles – by Derek Rose (Huffington Post)
• Psychosis, Stabbing, Secrecy & Death at a Neo-Buddhist University in Arizona by Matthew Remski
• Tragedy at Diamond Mountain: an Update by Matthew Remski
• Death in the Desert in an American Buddhist Cult
• ABC News: Mysterious Yoga Retreat Death in Ariz. 
• CNN News: Death after mysterious Buddhist retreat
• Geshe Michael Roach Cult Death hits the New York Times

Websites on the topic ‘New Religious Movements’ and ‘Cults’

• INFORM – Check Out First poster (PDF) and Extremism on University Campus – Oct 2011 (PDF)
• CESNUR – La New Kadampa Tradition (Italian), Documents on the Dorje Shugden – New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) Controversy, The Role of Lama Michel, the “Little Buddha” of São Paulo, within the Globalized Tibetan Buddhist Movement of Lama Gangchen
• Cult Information Centre – New Kadampa Tradition
• Rick Ross Institute – NKT, New Kadampa Tradition
• ICSA – Academic Dialogue and Disputes, Preface to Academic Dialogue and Disputes, Recovery from Cults, Common Issues in Post-Cult Recovery, Post-Cult After Effects
• New Religions and the Internet by Dr George D. Chryssides
• New Religious Movements – Some Problems of Definition by Dr George D. Chryssides
• Defining the New Spirituality by Dr George D. Chryssides

Blogs [4]

• Behind the Thankas by Mary Finnigan
• Dialogue Ireland -  What kind of Buddhists are these? -A Response to the blog Behind the Thankas
• Dorje Shugden: Deity or Demon? – by Tricycle Editor’s Blog (PDF: Tricycle » Dorje Shugden- Deity or Demon?)
• Spirit Worship is not Buddhist – by TripleGem (Website disappeared, see: PDF-Copy)
• Beyond the Truths of NKT – information offered by former NKT members
• NEW: Reddit Discussion on Dorje Shugden
• NEW: Independent Buddhist – Reflections about NKT
• LazyBuddhist: Dirty Laundry, Wrathful or ridiculous?, You gotta have faith? Conclusion
• Jigme Duntak: Tibet Talk – Keep Religion and Politics Separate, Tibet Talk – Western Shugden Society
• A former NKT nun’s video blog: http://www.xtranormalbuddhist.co.uk/
• Beyond the Illusion – about faith in Tantric (Vajrayana) context
• NKT Succession & Questions of Authority – by Vishvapani
• NKT, Succession and ‘The Rules’ by Vishvapani
• NKT Insider
• Decheng’s Space – reflecting WSS’s/NKT’s activities
• Ex-NKTer – a former NKT member’s view
• Experience with NKT – a former NKT member’s view
• New Kadampa Cult Watch – by a former defender and member of the NKT who claims to be a professional writer too [5]
• NEW: British Buddhism

Discussion Forums

• New Kadampa Survivors – Yahoo Discussion Group
• Free Sangha – Tantric Masters and Training in the NKT
• E-Sangha – New Kadampa Tradition (NKT), information & discussion, New Beginnings – New Teachers
• Beliefnet – New Kadampa Tradition
• Buddhachat – New Kadampa Tradition, NKT/Shugden/Debates
• Rick Ross Forum – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (New Kadampa Tradition)
• Google Groups – Official: NKT is not a harmful cult – discussion in 1996 about NKT and the role of INFORM
• Google Groups – Religious Issues – Discussion in 1997, NKT-Shugden- Dicusssion in 1998, Do Sakyas rely upon Dorje Shugden?
• Facebook – NKT Awareness

Words of Dharma

• East-West, West-East – by Dzongzar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
• Buddhism without Sectarianism – by the Ven. Deshung Rinpoche

Useful Topics or Links

• Questioning the Advice of the Guru by H.H. the XIV. Dalai Lama
• Relating to the Guru by Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo
• Devotion with Discernment — A question of personal responsibility by Rob Preece
• »Sex and the Lama« — Is it acceptable for a lama to sleep with a student? by Gavin Kilty
• Document – China: AI’s position on alleged abuses against worshippers of Tibetan deity Dorje Shugden – by Amnesty International (AI) (PDF)
• BBC documentary: An Unholy Row (1998)
• The search for religious Truth – The Spirit of Things on ABC Radio National
• Tibetan Religion and Politics by Samten G. Karmay
• NEW: Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire by Chris Lawson
• The Battle of the Sixth Avenue by Barbara O’Brien
• Those who “become rich by opposing splittism” by TibetInfoNet (PDF)
• Sowing dissent and undermining the Dalai Lama by TibetInfoNet (PDF)
• Delhi High Court Dismisses Dorjee Shugden Devotees’ Charges by TibetNet/CTA (PDF)
• Declaration of Expulsion of Kelsang Gyatso from Sera Je Monastery by the General Assembly of Sera Je Monastery
• To the Tibetan Buddhists around the world and fellow Tibetan compatriots within and outside Tibet [6] by Sera Je Dratsang, Sera Monastic University, P.O. Bylakuppe – 571104, Distt. Mysore (K.S.), South India
• The Chronicles of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Reports by former NKT members and Documents

• Is it all in my head or not? (PDF)
• Story of a NKT monk  (PDF version)
• Threats of violence from a “Buddhist Monk”
• in German: Einige NKT Dokumente, Interviews mit ehemaligen NKT-Mitgliedern, Einige Dokumente zu Ganden Tashi Choeling (Lama Dechen)

Press Articles About Western Shugden Society /New Kadampa Tradition and Dorje Shugden

(chronological order)

• The Western Shugden Society by Jigme Duntak (August 13, 2008)
• Western Shugden Society – Review and Present Situation by Tenzin Peljor (July 24, 2008)
• Tibet scholar denies making Time magazine Shugden comment by TibetanReview.net (July 23, 2008)
• Australian Sangha Association Statement by ASA (July 22, 2008)
• Dalai Lama’s visit sparks protest by the Capital Times (7/20/2008)
• NYC: dissident Buddhists, idiot leftists protest Dalai Lama by Bill Weinberg Blog (07/19/2008)
• The Dalai Lama’s Buddhist Foes by The Time Magazine (July 18, 2008) –> see Denial of Comment by Tibet Scholar
• Dalai Lama Fans Clash With Protesters by The New York Times (July 17, 2008)
• The Dalai Lama and his Followers by ABC Radio National (July 6, 2008)
  
• Interview with Kelsang Pema “Dalai Lama protests”, at ABC National Radio, Australia (June 11, 2008)
• Buddhist at Loggerheads by New Internationalist, Vanessa Baird (May 30, 2008)
• BBC – Nottingham (May 27, 2008)
• BBC: Peace and placards greet Dalai Lama (May 22, 2008)
• Shugden sect plans protests at Dalai Lama’s British visit by AFP (May 21, 2008)
• Sowing dissent and undermining the Dalai Lama by TibetInfoNet (May 21, 2008)
• Undermining Tibetan Freedom Struggle by Phurbu Thinley (May 10, 2008)
• Destroying Tibetan Buddhism in Order to Save It? by Barbara O’Brien (2008)
• Shugden Worshippers – The Buddhist Taliban by UnmadeInChina.org (2008)
• Interpol on trail of Buddhist killers by The Times (June 22, 2007)
• A Spirit of the XVII Century by Raimondo Bultrini (2005, 2006)
• Provocations of the Gyalpo by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche (2005)
• Review of the Protests 1996-1998 (2005-2008)
• Dalai Lama faced with death threats by Washington Times (Nov 22, 2003)
• Death threats to Dalai Lama blamed on rival Buddhist sect by The Sidney Morning Herald, (November 16, 2002)
• Shugden controversy: Tibetan govt flays Chinese official by Tribune India (Jan 5, 1999)
• Monks vs Monks by Time Magazine (May 11, 1998)
• Buddhists to Protest Dalai Lama During U.S. Visit by the New York Times (April 30, 1998)
• Cult Mystery by Newsweek, Tony Clifton (April 28, 1997)
• Battle of the Buddhists by Andrew Brown, The Independent (July 15, 1996)
• Call to close sect’s benefit loophole by Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian (July 13, 1996)
• Shadow boxing on the path to Nirvana by Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian (July 6, 1996)
• Why the Dalai Lama rejects Shugden (June 1996) by Gareth Sparham
• It’s Dalai Lama vs Shugden (PDF-copy) by Deepak Thapa (1996)

Videos

• Sur les traces du Dalai Lama by France 2, 2008 (in French)
• Al Jazeera on Shugden and the Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama: The Devil within, 2008
• The Dalai Lama’s demon by France 24 (Aug 2008)
• The Dalai Lama responds to Shugden Practitioners protest – Video Part I, Part II (July 14 2008)
• BBC Video (Nottingham) (May 27, 2008)
• Dorjee Shugden, The Spirit and the Controversy by the Tibetan Government in Exile
• BBC documentary “An Unholy Row” 1998
• Self-correction of SWISS TV (1998, in German) (This is a correction of the documentary: “Bruderzwist” (1998) which has raised a controversy in Swiss, so that the broadcast station was forced to offer a more balanced view.)
• Kalu Rinpoche Tulku’s statement
• In the name of enlightenment: Stephen Batchelor interview
• Sex Scandals In Religion, Episode Three: In The Name Of Enlightenment
• A Forceful Statement by the Dalai Lama
• Going For Refuge – About FWBO – Triratna by BBC East’s »Matter of Fact« series (1992)

Academic Research

• Canonicity and Divine Interference: The Tulkus and the Shugden-Controversy by Prof. Dr. Michael von Brück, Religious Scientist at the University of Munich (2001)
• The Shuk-Den Affair: Origins of a Controversy by Georges J. B. Dreyfus, Professor of Religion at Williams College (1999)
• for more see: Academic Research regarding Shugden Controversy and New Kadampa Tradition – IKBU

[1] This links is broken. From the content only the following PDF copy is available at the moment: A Brief Opposition to Shugden – Department of Religion & Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration

[2] Though they have been asked by certain Lamas to take off their images from that site because they don’t practice Shugden any more, the website owners’ response was that this doesn’t matter to them because who once practiced Shugden would still be a Dorje Shugden practitioner. Trials from my side to correct some of their wrong claims in the discussion forum were immediately deleted after I posted them. For the website owners the contradiction of fighting “for religious freedom” and rejecting at the same time the rights and the freedoms of others seems not to be obvious …

[3] Here it is note worthy to see that the article starts with an image of a faithfully prostrating nun and an image capture “An exiled Tibetan Buddhist nun prostrates around the main temple and the residence of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.” In the light of the headline I feel this to be manipulative. First of all the Dalai Lama is not abusing anybody and also there is no report that nuns are abused. I wonder what drove The Guardian to follow such an tabloid approach …

[4] I restrained to include blogs made by WSS and NKT, these and more links can be found at the end of the readmore-site of Buddhism under assault.

[5] The blog is already offline… to get a taste of what the person was saying one can read some material on Dialogue Ireland.

[6] This letter became known in the internet as the “Sera Expulsion Letter”, though it is not the actual Declaration of Expulsion of Kelsang Gyatso issued forth on August 22, 1996. When this blog refers to “Sera Expulsion Letter” it refers to this letter To the Tibetan Buddhists around the World…. The “Sera Expulsion Letter” has no date.

  Last edited by tenpel on February 12, 2013 at 4:20 pm