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		<title>NKT World VS Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 23:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new blog online tackling the website NKTWorld.org. The NKT World &#8211; Where there&#8217;s smoke&#8230;there&#8217;s arson! points out the many lies and misconceptions presented on NKTWorld.org. Below are a couple quotes from the About US page: The aim of this blog is to examine and clarify the more frequent assertions that NKTWorld.org makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=501&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a new blog online tackling the website NKTWorld.org.<em> <a href="http://puremindpureworld.wordpress.com/">The NKT World &#8211; Where there&#8217;s smoke&#8230;there&#8217;s arson!</a></em> points out the many lies and misconceptions presented on NKTWorld.org.</p>
<p><strong>Below are a couple quotes from the <a href="http://puremindpureworld.wordpress.com/about-us/">About US </a>page:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>The aim of this blog is to examine and clarify the more frequent   assertions that NKTWorld.org makes about the New Kadampa Tradition,   addressing the many misconceptions presented therein.</p>
<p>By constantly presenting issues in a biased and prejudiced  fashion—especially putting their own ignorance in Geshe Kelsang’s  mouth—NKTWorld.org’s real aim is merely to destroy people’s faith by any  means necessary. It is nothing less than spiritual arson.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Apology from Nathaniel Whiteman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Whiteman published an apology on the internet for his negative actions toward the NKT.  The first part of his apology is below. It is very kind of Nathaniel to apologize and to acknowledge his mistakes. Dear Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and members of the New Kadampa Tradition. I am writing this letter as an apology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=497&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nathaniel Whiteman published an apology on the internet for his negative actions toward the NKT.  The first part of his apology is below. It is very kind of Nathaniel to apologize and to acknowledge his mistakes.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dear Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and members of the New Kadampa Tradition.</p>
<p>I am writing this letter as an apology for my previous harmful actions against the New Kadampa Tradition and certain members of the organisation. My intentions were extremely negative and were as a result of my uncontrollable mind; I have, since leaving the NKT, been seeking psychological treatment for my negative mental state and have been diagnosed with a chronic mental illness.</p>
<p>I have removed my blog kelsanbrat.blogspot.co.za and have started practicing Dharma at my own pace and in my own way without belonging to a particular tradition or organization. I have contacted Kelsang Legden and Kelsang Osel and apologised for all the negative emails that I had sent regarding them.</p>
<p>Yours apologetically,<br />
Nathaniel Whiteman</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Dharmaprotector.org and the Dalai Lama Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a couple of sites worth visiting regarding the Dalai Lama Controversy. Thomas Hochman, from Albuquerque, New Mexico wrote an interesting series of articles about the controversy and the site Heart Jewel &#8211; Standing up for the Middle Way has been redesigned. It&#8217;s looking sharp. Check out these sites if you haven&#8217;t already.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=489&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a couple of sites worth visiting regarding the Dalai Lama Controversy. Thomas Hochman, from Albuquerque, New Mexico wrote <a href="http://www.hochmann.org/2009/09/dalai-lama-controversy-more-background.html">an interesting series of articles about the controversy</a> and the site <a href="http://www.dharmaprotector.org" target="_blank">Heart Jewel &#8211; Standing up for the Middle Way</a> has been redesigned. It&#8217;s looking sharp. Check out these sites if you haven&#8217;t already.</p>
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		<title>Tibetan Politics and the Gelugpa Lineage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting section on the Wikipedia page about Geshe Kelsang Gyatso with regard to his views of the current state of the Gelugpa tradition. Relationship with Tibetan politics Consistent with the lineage teachings he received from his root Guru, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Geshe Kelsang believes that the practice of Dorje Shugden should continue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=484&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an interesting section on the Wikipedia page about Geshe Kelsang Gyatso with regard to his views of the current state of the Gelugpa tradition.</p>
<p><strong>Relationship with Tibetan politics</strong></p>
<p>Consistent with the lineage teachings he received from his root Guru, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Geshe Kelsang believes that the practice of Dorje Shugden should continue to be practised by any Gelugpas who wish to do so. This view differs from that held by the current Dalai Lama, who, despite having received the same lineage teachings, now actively discourages this practice.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geshe_Kelsang_Gyatso#cite_note-48"></a></sup> However, as it is an independent Western Buddhist organization, the Dalai Lama has no authority in terms of how the NKT-IKBU is organized and what practices are taught.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geshe_Kelsang_Gyatso#cite_note-49"></a></sup> The controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama&#8217;s ban of the practice of Dorje Shugden is described in the article on the <a title="Dorje Shugden Controversy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorje_Shugden_Controversy">Dorje Shugden Controversy</a>.</p>
<p>Geshe Kelsang said at an NKT-IKBU Festival in 1995 that the Gelug tradition is in a state of &#8220;serious degeneration.&#8221;<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geshe_Kelsang_Gyatso#cite_note-50"></a></sup> In explaining this, Geshe Kelsang said that if the Dalai Lama succeeds in destroying the practice of Dorje Shugden, the entire Gelug tradition itself will be destroyed:</p>
<blockquote><p>If the practice of Dorje Shugden is harmful then it follows that Je Phabongkhapa was not an authentic Buddhist master, and if he was not then there is no doubt that his heart disciples, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche (the Senior and Junior Tutors of HH the Dalai Lama) were also not authentic. These three Lamas are the most important Gelugpa Lamas of recent times. If these three are not pure Teachers then there is no doubt that the entire practice of the Gelug Tradition is invalid. This is the main issue that needs clarification.</p></blockquote>
<p>Geshe Kelsang become critical of the Gelugpa hierarchy&#8217;s attempts to prevent him from passing on Dorje Shugden teachings that he had received from his own teacher.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geshe_Kelsang_Gyatso#cite_note-52"><span> </span></a></sup>The distancing of Geshe Kelsang from the Tibetan hierarchy has also been underlined by a number of revisions made to later editions of his earlier publications. Geshe Kelsang&#8217;s dedications to the long life of the Dalai Lama found in earlier editions of <em>Meaningful to Behold</em> are omitted from the fourth edition (1994) onwards. Also, Geshe Kelsang&#8217;s students made revisions to the list of Mahamudra lineage gurus in the second edition of <em>Clear Light of Bliss</em> published in 1992. (On this point, Kyabje Gehlek Rimpoche explains that &#8220;We have two lineage prayers, one long and one slightly shorter one. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, who had the teaching from Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche at the same time when I was there, gives the shorter lineage prayer and I put in the longer one.&#8221;) In the first edition, Phabongkha Rinpoche was followed by Trijang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche, the latter being the &#8216;current holder of the throne of Ganden&#8217;. In the second edition, Ling Rinpoche&#8217;s name is omitted and replaced by &#8216;Dorjechang Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche&#8217; (Geshe Kelsang Gyatso).</p>
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		<title>Geshe Kelsang Explains the Relationship between Je Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venerable Geshe Kelsang explains how Dorje Shugden is Manjushri Je Tsongkhapa. This was at the Dorje Shugden empowerment at the 2006 NKT Summer Festival at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre in England.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=481&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><span>Venerable Geshe Kelsang explains how Dorje Shugden is Manjushri Je Tsongkhapa. This was at the Dorje Shugden empowerment at the 2006 NKT Summer Festival at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre in England.<br />
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		<title>His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche Chanting Dorje Shugden Prayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video includes an audio recording of Trijang Rinpoche chanting Dorje Shugden prayers in Tibetan. The author of the Heart Jewel blog wrote an interesting post about Trijang Rinpoche recently entitled &#8216;Trijang Rinpoche on Dorje Shugden&#8216;. Here&#8217;s a quote from his post: If a Buddha has any perceived faults—whether lustful to subdue the lustful, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=476&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>This video includes an audio recording of Trijang Rinpoche chanting Dorje Shugden prayers in Tibetan.</p>
<p>The author of the Heart Jewel blog wrote an interesting post about Trijang Rinpoche recently entitled &#8216;<a title="Trijang Rinpoche on Dorje Shugden" href="http://dharmaprotector.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/trijang-rinpoche-on-dorje-shugden/" target="_blank">Trijang Rinpoche on Dorje Shugden</a>&#8216;. Here&#8217;s a quote from his post:</p>
<blockquote><p>If a Buddha has any perceived faults—whether lustful to subdue the lustful, or hateful to subdue the hateful—these are our very faults on display.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche Caught Lying Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone just posted this info as a comment on my blog: The latest news I have received is not very long but quite important on many levels from very reliable sources. The Abbots of Sera Je, Sera Mey, Gaden Jangtse, Gaden Shartse, Drepung Gomang and Drepung Loseling were summoned to Dharamsala by Prime Minister of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=462&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Someone just posted this info as a comment on my blog:</strong></p>
<p>The latest news I have received is not very long but quite important on many levels from very reliable sources.  The Abbots of Sera Je, Sera Mey, Gaden Jangtse, Gaden Shartse, Drepung Gomang and Drepung Loseling were summoned to Dharamsala by Prime Minister of Exile Tibetan Govt Professor Samdong Rinpoche very recently.  Samdong Rinpoche scolded the Abbots for PUSHING THE SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN OF ALL MONKS TO RENOUNCE SHUGDEN IN THREE GREAT SEATS OF SERA, GADEN AND DREPUNG!!!</p>
<p>He said that their insistence on the signature campaigns has made personal difficulties for H.H. the Dalai Lama.  (I would presume the court case and also the bad media regarding religious discrimination)</p>
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<p>The ironic fact is that HH himself pushed for it through the Abbots. We can see the videos of HH praising the monasteries who has expelled the monks who wish to continue the practice and encourages more of it.</p>
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<p>So perhaps this is a sign that the ban by HH is starting to have a negative effect on his reputation?  extracted from <a href="http://www.dorjeshugden.com/forum/index.php?topic=456.0">dorjeshugden.com forum</a></p>
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		<title>Debunking &#8216;The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dalai Lama and his anti-Shugden associates have lost yet more ground to stand on in the battle for the truth about Dorje Shugden. The scholar, Trinley Kalsang, has launched a new site which debunks Dorje Shugden myths created by the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile. Trinley states on the home page that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=459&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Dalai Lama and his anti-Shugden associates have lost yet more ground to stand on in the battle for the truth about Dorje Shugden. The scholar, Trinley Kalsang, has launched a new site which debunks Dorje Shugden myths created by the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile. Trinley states on the home page that &#8220;There is an overwhelming amount of evidence of texts supporting Shugden before Pabongkha (1878-1943), yet almost no one seems interested in it, and of course the detractors benefit greatly from the “murky origins” of this practice.&#8221;</p>
<p>So he&#8217;s taken the academic approach to refuting Georges Dreyfus’ <em>The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy</em> and making the history and origins of Dorje Shugden available on the internet.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the website: <a title="Dorje Shugden History" href="http://www.dorjeshugdenhistory.org" target="_self">Dorje Shugden History</a></p>
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		<title>A Presentation of Dharma for the Modern World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I came across a website where someone was saying many horrible things about Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Most of what they were saying has already been addressed on the New Kadampa Truth website. But, one thing they were saying has not. They were questioning whether or not Geshe Kelsang had permission from, his spiritual guide, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=454&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, I came across a website where someone was saying many horrible things about Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Most of what they were saying has already been addressed on the <a title="New Kadampa Truth" href="http://www.newkadampatruth.org" target="_self">New Kadampa Truth </a>website. But, one thing they were saying has not. They were questioning whether or not Geshe Kelsang had permission from, his spiritual guide, Trijang Rinpoche to make a new presentation of Dharma. At the NKT Summer Festival, in 2004, Geshe Kelsang made it very clear that he did have permission from Trijang Rinpoche. Below is part of this teaching.</p>
<p><strong>A Presentation of Dharma for the Modern World</strong></p>
<p>Sometimes if we mix ordinary view and profound Dharma, then it causes people more confusion. For we Buddhists the confusion is enough! It is everywhere, big confusion in Buddhist people. Because previously our Buddhist texts were very profound and modern people found them very difficult to understand. Buddhist Teachers are also giving teachings following the tradition of their own country, which is very difficult for people in other countries to understand. In this way, there is huge confusion.</p>
<p>So now our responsibility, the main job of Kadampa Buddhist Teachers, is to disappear the confusion of the people throughout the world. We should never cause confusion to increase. Therefore, you need certain skillful methods.</p>
<p>Even for myself, at the very beginning it was very difficult. If I taught according to the Tibetan tradition, Western people found it very difficult to accept or understand-there was not much meaning for them. If I taught my own presentation, a different design, I worried because I need to follow my lineage Gurus&#8217; tradition. So big problem, you know. Every Teacher who came from ancient country, from Eastern country, had this problem. But I solved my problem when I had my last meeting with my Spiritual Guide Trijang Rinpoche.</p>
<p>At that time, he was near passing away, so I went to India to see him. I had a very good opportunity to have a long meeting. I made him a long-life ritual prayer called &#8220;ten shu&#8221; with an assembly of monks, and then I had a long meeting. During this, I asked many questions about my own problem, because if I taught according to the Tibetan tradition, Western people found it difficult to accept because they are not like Tibetan people. They are educated people who went through school and university or college. They have learned a lot. They are knowledgeable people. They will not follow blind faith. They immediately check how it is true or not. They immediately want practical things. So if we follow our own tradition, it is very difficult. So now I gave many lists from Sutra and Tantra, now what do we do with this?</p>
<p>He said clearly, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry! My students are Tibetan people. Your students are people from other countries. Of course, you teach with different methods. Of course, your presentation of Dharma is necessarily going to be different than mine, because people&#8217;s characteristics, nature, capacity, wishes, and society are different.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said this and I was so happy that he gave me permission. He said: &#8220;You don&#8217;t worry. Buddha himself said that the way of presenting Buddhadharma should be like the way a doctor gives medicine to different people. The doctor never gives one medicine to everybody, every sick person. Different sick people receive different medicines, because they are not the same. Similarly, the way of presenting Dharma is necessarily going to be different according to different people.&#8221;</p>
<p>He told me this example. So then I realized that he gave me permission to make a new design for the people of the modern world. So we did, and it works very well. &#8211; Geshe Kelsang Gyatso</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a little bit of history that I hadn&#8217;t known about before tonight. It&#8217;s now on the Wikipedia article about Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. We are so fortunate that Lama Yeshe and Trijang Rinpoche requested Geshe Kelsang to come to the West and that he accepted. In Geshe Kelsang&#8217;s own words: When I was in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newkadampatradition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4144024&amp;post=452&amp;subd=newkadampatradition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a little bit of history that I hadn&#8217;t known about before tonight. It&#8217;s now on the Wikipedia article about Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. We are so fortunate that Lama Yeshe and Trijang Rinpoche requested Geshe Kelsang to come to the West and that he accepted.</p>
<p>In Geshe Kelsang&#8217;s own words:</p>
<blockquote><p>When I was in India I received an invitation from Manjushri Institute in England through Lama Yeshe, who was my very close friend in Tibet. He and I were from the same monastery in Tibet and we had the same Teacher. He wrote to me and requested me please to go to England and give Dharma teachings. I received this invitation but I didn’t answer for two months. At that time it was difficult for me to say yes due to certain commitments to local Tibetan people, and also I thought how could I teach as I could not speak English? I had no confidence. Lama Yeshe was very clever; he went to visit my root Guru Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, and requested him to ask me to go to England to teach Dharma. He knew if my root Guru asked me, then I would agree to go.</p></blockquote>
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