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January 2020

January 04, 2020

Shambhala Buddhist Community Faces New Allegations in Chapman Student Investigation

In a video that should be seen by university students and professors across the country,...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Sogyal Lakar, well-known Tibetan Buddhist teacher and alleged sexual abuser of his students, has died

He was a Tibetan man who found his way into a decent education. He used...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

Further abuse accusations against Sakyong Mipham, head of Shambhala Buddhism

A thirty-five page letter was issued yesterday by six of the closest attendants of Mipham...

February 11, 2019

Progressive Buddhism: An Australian Buddhist Nun Speaks on Tibetan Buddhism, Patriarchy, and India

In "Life in Red - A Journey from Sydney Suburbs to Nagpur Slums" Tibetan Buddhist...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

Anonymous redditor shares troubling experience in Shambhala Buddhism

A person who claims to know the inner workings of the current Shambhala leadership, Sakyong...

December 2018

December 12, 2018

On “feudalism” in Tibet and Chinese use of the scholarship of Melvyn Goldstein

Recently the term "feudalism" has crept into widespread discourse about Tibet. On this blog it...

September 2018

September 01, 2018

Two Documentaries examine the sexual abuse in the Tibetan Buddhist group, Rigpa

As allegations continue to surface against Sakyong Mipham and the leadership of Shambhala International, it is...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

Shambhala Faces Most Damning Revelations to Date: Buddhist Project Sunshine Phase 3 Report

A new report detailing widespread sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault, and community complicity in Shambhala...

April 2018

April 18, 2018

Healing sexualized violence in the Shambhala Buddhist community

Andrea Winn, initiator and author of Project Sunshine (.pdf), is raising funds for a second...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

Got $12,000 to spend on a book? Murals of Tibet is Perfect for You

Signed by the Dalai Lama, with contributing authors Robert Thurman, Heather Stoddard, and Jakob Winkler and...

March 05, 2018

Dalai Lama, Citing Progress, is Optimistic for Humanity

The Dalai Lama has many interests. As a child in Tibet's Potala Palace he studied...

February 2018

February 11, 2018

Dalai Lama affirms, Prayers Alone are not Enough, we Need Action

His Holiness the Dalai Lama turned to twitter on Friday to restate a message which...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

A Storm is Coming: Tibetan Buddhism in the West

Even before the #metoo movement went viral last month, a bombshell - or at least...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

In Wake of #MeToo, a Tibetan Buddhist lama Offers a Teacher-Student “Sex Contract”

The post, which was taken down after circulating for around 24 hours, caused anger, sadness,...

September 2017

September 13, 2017

Tibetan Buddhist master Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche on Spiritual Bypassing

I first encountered Namkhai Norbu as a young scholar working on a master's degree in Buddhist...

September 06, 2017

The Dalai Lama on Secular Ethics and the Toppling of “Rotten” Buddhist Institutions

The Dalai Lama gave a talk today in India with students from the University of California...

September 06, 2017

A Tibetan Buddhist Nun discusses Sexual Abuse and Tantra

The solution to all of this difficulty is education... Venerable Thubten Chodron, abbess of Sravasti...

August 2017

August 16, 2017

Dismantling Buddhist Patriarchy and Denial From the Inside

The Dalai Lama's message was clear: you defend Buddhism by calling out abusive people, not...

August 15, 2017

The merit of pointing out abuse in Buddhism: Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

A common teaching in Tibetan Buddhism suggests that, "if a lama or rinpoche says something wrong,...

August 08, 2017

Dalai Lama Speaks Out on Buddhist Teacher Misconduct

In the video below, from his teachings in Ladakh on August 1, 2017 the Dalai Lama...

August 07, 2017

Abusive Tibetan Buddhists: Continuing the Conversation

Tibetan Buddhism will always have a special place in my heart. As I embarked on...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

Buddhism, Patriarchy, Abuse, and Violence: We Need to Talk

What may surprise some Western Buddhists is that many of the same beliefs and structures...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

The Dalai Lama Continues to Push Secular Ethics Over Buddhism

Last week the Tibetan spiritual leader offered talks to three groups of students at his...

May 21, 2017

U.S. Congress re-introduces “Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act” amidst rise in tensions over the Dalai Lama’s travels

In the long shadow of the recent Trump-Xi meeting lingers a bill in both the...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Images of Tibet’s Larung Gar demolition, April 2016 – April 2017

This month, photographer Jesse Rockwell posted images of Larung Gar, a vast monastic complex in eastern...

April 09, 2017

The Dalai Lama criticizes Trump’s “America First” policy

In the video posted by England's Channel 4 News yesterday (below), the Dalai Lama also...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Karmapa Thaye Dorje, one head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, gets married

Trinley Thaye Dorje has abandoned his monastic life to marry a childhood friend. The ceremony...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

Psychologists test the Dalai Lama’s teaching on Compassion, and it works

Anyone in a relationship knows that it feels good to do something nice for your...

February 16, 2017

In the Obituary of a Tibetan Buddhism scholar, some ominous words

The obituary for Elliot Sperling begins as most do, noting the peaks of the man's...

November 2016

November 18, 2016

Tibetan Buddhist immigrant told: ‘get the f— out of my country’

Tenzin Dorjee is from Bhutan, the tiny kingdom in the Himalayas made famous by its...

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