Bad gurus, tosh gurus and good gurus

A heavy criticism of the whole "Shambhala" cult, describing the behaviour of Chogyam Trungpa and his chief defender, Pema Chodron, recently went viral on the net. I had intended to express some thoughts about these issues sometime, so it seemed like the time had come. I reveal nothing new here - this is just stuff to think about.

Trungpa's "wedding" to his Nth wife

Words or phrases you might want to look up:

• Pema Chodron
• Cassidy and Zeoli
• Mahasiddha
• Lakshminkara
• Tilopa
• Sogyal Lakar
• Robert Spatz
• Ole Nydahl
• Vajrayana

 

#Buddhism #Vajrayana #Tibet #DoubleDorje #cult #abuse

In the early weeks of this podcast I included an approximate script, not particularly well edited, on a blog page. For the episode dropped on 4 September entitled “Bad gurus, tosh gurus and good gurus” and for episodes due to be dropped from 18 September onwards, starting with “Jyekundo / Yushu: travelling in East Tibet” there is a transcript file which is much closer to the actual words used.

Note that other distribution platforms do not necessarily pass this on, and if you want to read it you may need to listen on podbean. YouTube has been making its own transcript, which was an unholy mess.  I think I have now deleted all of these "auto-generated" scripts, but it will not be possible to retrospectively add properly edited transcripts to episodes prior to September 2024.