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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 ...
29 wrz 2020 · by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 29, 2020. Matthew Remski investigates decades of abuse at Shambhala International. Read The Story. Tagged: abuse, buddhism, Buddhists, Chögyam Trungpa, cult, investigative journalism, Sexual Abuse, Shambhala International. Cheri Lucas Rowlands. Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
When one does a search of the term “new religion” for the period between 1970 and 2021, on Newspapers+ Publishers Extra, a principal database for newspaper archiving, the term “new religion” appears 120,426 times, while the term “cults” appears 3,596,130 times.
13 cze 2015 · A group or movement is theologically a cult if it identifies itself as belonging to a mainstream, recognized religion — and yet rejects or otherwise violates one or more of the central, essential teachings of that religion.
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 · This article accounts for these scandals historically (by situating them in the history of American appropriations of Buddhism and of the religious disaffection of the post-World War II period) and theoretically (by reading the SFZC's patterns of transmission and interpretation through the category “interpretative double movement).
10 maj 2021 · While often associated with a liberal demographic, the increasing online visibility of rhetoric such as “snowflakes,” “politically correct,” “postmodern identity politics,” and “cultural Marxism” demonstrates the presence of right-wing sentiments and populations in American convert Buddhism.
