Smears of The New Kadampa Tradition Refuted
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- 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
A little editing here. . .I think it would be more correct to say ‘smears against the new kadampa tradition’ rather than ‘smears of the new kadampa tradition’ which, to my mind, implies the smears are originating from the NKT. It may be worth while to check this out. . .