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This video, recently uploaded to the internet by the Dialogue Ireland website, is called ‘Going For Refuge’. It was made by BBC (East) and broadcast in the Eastern region of the UK on 12 November 1992, as part of BBC East’s ‘Matter of Fact’ series. It is about the organisaton formerly known as The Friends […]
August 24, 2010
Three new blog sites concerning the scandal-dogged Triratna Buddhist Community (renamed from the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) which appeared in recent months have come to my attention. The first, “Triratna Buddhism is a Cult” appeared in July, reproducing a letter sent by a former member “Prasannasiddhi” to senior Triratna official Dhammarati and […]
July 19, 2010
In this second blog entry concerning the controversies in British Buddhism that came to the fore in the 1990s (see the first “Many bodies, One Mind“), I reproduce here an essay by Dr. John Crook which was published in the New Chan Forum in 1998. John Crook is a teacher of Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism. He […]
May 10, 2010
No attempt to implant a monastic form of Buddhism into a western, non-Buddhist culture would be an easy task. Nonetheless, in 20th Century Britain it was attempted several times. Technically no individual can set up a branch of the monastic Sangha, and only a minimum of five fully ordained monks can ordain a new candidate. Even […]
Vajratool 
September 16, 2011
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