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Aro Ter

Alex — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:57:00 +0000

A while ago I passed a sarky comment or two about “Aro Ter”, a rather odd Buddhist organization that I don’t really need to describe. I’ve come to realize that my views at that time were formed almost exclusively on the basis of the information available at the E-sangha forum. I’ve also been made [...]

Another hilarious flake

Alex — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:01:00 +0000

François Lépine

Read and giggle if you have time to waste.

Flakes and charlatans revisited

Alex — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The other day I stumbled across something called “Tibetan Heart Yoga” being taught somewhere near here – in fact I think it was on one of the Google adverts here. “Whatever is that?”, I thought in blunter words. I’d never heard of it.

It turned out that this is the hybrid system launched by [...]

Aro

Alex — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:10:00 +0000

The next time I get in a discussion about Aro-ter I will remember that “Aro” is a bit of Khampa swearing that literally means “father’s corpse”!

More on the Maitreya flake

Alex — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:58:00 +0000

The well-known Henry wrote this:

QUOTE Introduction

Tulku Buddha Maitreya Rinpoche (Ronald Lloyd Spencer), an American man born in 1951, declares that he is Buddha Maitreya emanation. His incarnation lineage begins from Buddha Shakyamuni (Gautama Buddha)/Jesus Christ/Buddha Maitreya, Guru Padmasambhava, Jowo Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa. And of course, like any other Buddhist-Christian cults, he [...]

How's this for flaky?

Alex — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:37:00 +0000

The Mahatma Shamballa Multidimensional Healing Site Where do these guys get the nerve from? I daresay some of those lower down the power structure may be sincere and gentle people, but the thing is such a cheap and transparent attempt to cash in on a few buzzwords. But I suppose they all work according [...]