31 reasons for leaving NKT

Jun. 30 | LAME EXCUSE, AGAIN In August, a longtime member of the NKT wrote NKT about his 31 reasons for leaving NKT. 1) Samden Gyatso (the 2nd ex-national spiritual director of the NKT) had sexual relations with many women for a very long time (using tantra as...

RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN THE TRADITIONAL TIBETAN STATE(1)

Jun. 29 | MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN CASE, WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Introduction Ruled by an incarnation, the Dalai Lama, and supporting a monastic seg- ment comprising between ten and twenty percent of the eligible males, Tibet was a state in which religious interests...