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Emma C
Books the cult doesn't want you to see:

[secure.wikileaks.org]

These are kept secret until a member is sufficiently brainwashed.

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rrmoderator
davidlondon:

Please stop the snide remarks and flaming.

It is against the rules.

Also, you have offered no objective proof regarding your claims about "Emma."

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my respected friend and vajra brother Nkagpa Chogyam, otherwise known as Nkagchang Rinpoche. He and his wife Dechen are the "lineage holders" of Aro Buddhism, which is recognised by several high ranking Nyingma lamas including Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and Tarchin Rinpoche. I have to admit that Chogyam's presentation is somewhat unorthodox. But his teachings are 100% traditional Nyingma. In addition, not a breath of sexual or financial scandal has ever been attached to the Aro sangha

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Ole Nydahl has been criticised for using the title of Lama, despite having not completed the usual 3-year retreat required to take on such a title. Lama Namsen Rinpoche, a lama of the Karma Kagyu lineage, states that the 16th Karmapa during a meeting in 1977 told Ole Nydahl "You are not a Lama. You have met many Lamas, but you are not one of them. What you can do is tell others about Dharma, but you can't act like a Lama".