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28 wrz 2020 · In July, eight former attendants of the late Sogyal Rinpoche, a celebrated Buddhist teacher and the author of the bestselling Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, published an open letter describing decades of physical, sexual, and financial abuse by the religious leader. In November, Karen Rain alleged on Facebook that renowned yoga teacher ...
Ron Loomis, a former President of the ACM’s once prominent Cult Awareness Network (CAN), sharply differentiated between established religions and “cults,” even when members of established religions engage in acts of terror.
The Hartford Street Zen Center, temple name Issan-ji (literally 'One Mountain Temple'), is a Soto Zen practice-center located in the Castro district of San Francisco.
26 gru 2022 · The cult had a belief system that combined elements of Tibetan and Indian Buddhism, as well as Hinduism, Christianity, the practice of yoga, and the writings of Nostradamus. That’s a mouth full and a lot to integrate into just one ideology.
21 lis 2022 · One of the main motivations of Buddhism: The Unspeakable Truth is to counter the naivety of Europeans and Westerners regarding abuse in Buddhism. It also serves to inform potential practitioners about the history of abuse in certain communities.
18 cze 2018 · As opposed to a fully developed new religious movement (with rigid structures of belief, authority, and community life) and to a “client cult” (where religious practitioners interact with a religious leader and adhere to identifiable beliefs and practices, but where participation and exit are voluntary), an “audience cult” refers to a ...
22 mar 2017 · From my vantage today I’d have to call him an aspiring cult leader. Even at the time it seemed he was possibly crazy, claiming all sorts of things that just didn’t hang together.
