Smears of The New Kadampa Tradition Refuted
From the website: New Kadampa Truth – Fighting New Kadampa Tradition Smears
- Smear: NKT is a cult
- Smear: NKT is sectarian
- Smear: NKT worships a spirit
- Smear: NKT ordination is not valid
- Smear: NKT is a splinter group from the main Tibetan Buddhist traditions
- Smear: NKT is exclusive and not inclusive
- Smear: NKT students are not allowed to read non-NKT books
- Smear: NKT has a lot of scandals and cover-ups
- Smear: NKT makes its members get ordained too young
- Smear: NKT encourages people to give their money to the organization
- Smear: NKT is run by a group of autocratic insiders
- Smear: NKT has used government benefits to fund itself
- Smear: NKT aggressively evangelizes and promotes itself
- Smear: NKT is not accepted by many other Buddhist groups
- Smear: NKT received bad press from many major publications in the 1990s
- Smear: NKT are wrong to demonstrate against the Dalai Lama
- Smear: NKT is sponsored by the Chinese government
- Smear: NKT overcharges for Dharma classes
- Smear: NKT has no pictures of the Dalai Lama in their Centers
- Smear: NKT is an offshoot of the FPMT
- Smear: NKT is isolated from the wider Tibetan Buddhist Community
- Smear: Sexual intercourse is a legitimate spiritual practice for ordained practitioners in the NKT
- Smear: Students are encouraged to devote all their time to supporting a Center so that there is no time left for personal spiritual development
- Smear: NKT students are under pressure to take Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments
- Smear: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s books are written by his Western students
- Smear: NKT is more interested in recruiting/getting volunteers than helping people
- Smear: NKT students are encouraged to see no faults in their teachers
- Smear: NKT wish to harm and destroy the Dalai Lama
- Smear: NKT threatens hell realms to those who disobeys
- Smear: NKT teachers are immature and/or manipulative
- Smear: NKT are murderers
- Smear: NKT prays for the death of their enemies
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