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Re: Dark Side of Buddhism
(Quote) If someone is in some way vulnerable, that should be provided to the other party so they can decide if they want to get involved. The teacher, especially a highly educated incarnate lama, is … (View Post)
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Re: Dark Side of Buddhism
(Quote) In universities in the US, and in some Buddhist centers in the US that have policies on this issue, instructors are required to wait until a student has completed the course and is no longer … (View Post)1 -
Re: Dark Side of Buddhism
(Quote) This is the crucial question, and it goes back to the issue raised in the discussion by Khandro Rinpoche, linked by the OP earlier. Psychologists hold that students with a history of abuse, l… (View Post)
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Re: Dark Side of Buddhism
(Quote) Aha! So you would like teachers to live up to something "substantial". And what would that something be? btw, if your teachers are or were monks, they've taken a lot more than 5 pre… (View Post)
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Re: Dark Side of Buddhism
Nonsense. If lay people can live without carousing, without having multiple simultaneous affairs, without doing drugs, especially without doing those things among groups of people they're teaching or… (View Post)2