American Buddha Bulletin Board

Crazy Like a Fox – In “Crazy Wisdom,” Trungpa’s Heirs Sacrifice Truth to Profit
by Charles Carreon
July 24, 2019

-- Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, produced and directed by Johanna Demetrakas -- Screencap Gallery

It’s impossible to see yourself when you’re ...

The Dialogue of the Yogi and the King
by Charles Carreon
7/21/19

The King was out riding one morning, surveying his domains with no particular aim in view, or so it seemed, until he spotted the Yogi walking down the dusty road. The King flagged his detail to ride ten paces behind him, and brought ...

Historic Prelude: III. The Rebel’s Lost Cause

The young lama stood before her out of uniform. Wearing blue jeans and a khaki shirt, he looked like he was getting ready to hang around the tourist hotels and fast-talk the hippies into a trip to Agra with a tour of the Red Fort and the Taj Mahal ...

The Jester Has His Say

Way up high on his 10-ft throne
Kalapa's King sits all alone.
He times his breath with a metronome,
Occasionally throws his subjects a bone,
Scratches his rump and checks his phone.

Perhaps his lawyers have texted him
Perhaps the news has grown less grim
Perhaps the ...

Gurdjieff & Trungpa, Sarmoung Brother-Hoods
by Charles Carreon
7/12/19

The similarities between Gurdjieff & Chogyam Trungpa are too numerous to be ignored, and Trungpa's canny exploitation of Gurdjieff's legacy and disciples may lie at the heart of his success in attracting the entitled, elite ...

HIstorical Prelude: II. The Lovers

The housewives of Delhi were preparing supper amid the noise and clangor of the city. The noise was dominated by the puttering buzz of moto-taxis, pierced through with the occasional angry honk of a truck trying to push its way through traffic. The clear winter ...

Historic Prelude: I. The English Lesson

The young monk put aside the tattered copy of Moby Dick he'd been reading, setting it on the bare concrete floor next to the folded blanket that provided his seat. It was midsummer in the hill-station in the Himalayan foothills, and the only coolness came ...

As noted above, Dennis Southward was a Desung who did a lot of classes on "The Desung Path," including teaching a class at Karme Choling in 2015. See screencaps below, taken to preserve the evidence, because Shambhala has already scrubbed Southward's name from virtually all of these pages ...

Shambhala Dodges Mandatory Reporting Duties That Expose it To Tort Damages in Boulder Child-sex Case
by Charles Carreon
July 1, 2019

How long can Shambhala claim ignorance of child abuse that happens in its centers? Twenty-two years, in the case of Michael Smith, arrested after he turned himself ...

Shambhala is certainly not Vajrayana, and hiding the doctrines behind a veil of secrecy cannot conceal the shallowness of the Sakyong's doctrines. The "Scorpion Seal" is a blatant theft from the Nyingma guru, Dudjom Lingpa:

On the morning of the first day of the sixth month, as soon as I awoke I ...