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Recovery from The New Kadampa Tradition – A Resource Centre

Liberation from indoctrination

  • Home
  • The latest version of Dr Michelle Haslam’s full analysis of the NKT
  • Is The New Kadampa Tradition (NKT-IKBU) a cult?
  • Recruitment
    • Misleading and therefore unethical advertising
    • Rejection of ‘worldy’ happiness and ordinary life
    • ‘McMindfulness’, The Happiness Trap, deception and hidden abuse: social factors that make us vulnerable to recruitment into Buddhist cultic groups
  • The Practices
    • The practice of applying ‘antidotes/opponents’ for ‘delusions’ minds’ or emotions
    • ‘Mind control’: Is it meditation or hypnosis?
    • Psychological neglect and the tendency to encourage psychological disturbance (sadism)
    • Lack of mindfulness practices, dissociation and hallucinations
    • Encouraging addiction, co-dependency and trauma bonds
    • Emptiness, nihilism and derealisation
    • Understanding religious ‘fervor’ in The New Kadampa Tradition with Dr Yuval Laor
  • Spiritual narcissism and hypocrisy in the NKT
  • Abuse in The New Kadampa Tradition
    • The enabling and minimising of abuse in the NKT
    • Have you experienced spiritual abuse within The NKT?
    • Gaslighting of those who perceive faults and speak up
    • Financial abuse
    • Alleged sexual abuse
  • Attacks on testimony writers: threats to life, health, reputation and livelihood
    • Cyber bullying towards Michelle from NKT members
    • DARVO: The defamation site set up in Michelle’s name by senior NKT (plus trolling)
    • How an NKT monk and teacher justifies murder
  • Trauma
    • The ’emptiness’ of trauma in The New Kadampa Tradition
    • Living in an NKT centre: Loneliness, neglect, burnout and institutionalisation
    • Complex post-traumatic stress after leaving the NKT
  • Testimonies
    • Michelle’s testimony
    • Testimonies found elsewhere
    • My NKT Hell (anonymous)
  • When you’ve lost a loved one to the NKT
  • Leaving and stabilisation
  • Recovery
    • Understanding thought reform in the NKT
    • Understanding ‘Buddhist’ narcissism and codependency
    • Finding a therapist
    • Religious Trauma psychoeducation
    • Adapting therapeutic approaches for ex-members of abusive groups that call themselves Buddhist
  • Recommended reading and listening
  • Media
  • Messages of support and appreciation (shared with consent or posted publicly)

Leaving the NKT

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