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Dangers in Devotion: Buddhist Cults and the Tasks of a Guru

July 19, 2010

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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 […]

“Many Bodies, One Mind”: Movements in British Buddhism – Ken Jones

June 19, 2010

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This is the first of two blog entries concerning the controversies in British Buddhism that came to the fore in the 1990s, I reproduce here an essay from July 1997 about three of the largest Buddhist organisations in the UK. It is by Ken Jones, a founder and the present secretary of the UK Network of Engaged […]