American Buddha Bulletin Board

BUDDHIST HORROR FLICK
by Charles Carreon

Armies of zombie clergy
Dragging their malas
Wielding crowbars
and sacred implements

Led by hordes of vampires
Sangha officers and boards of directors
Engage in gang warfare,
Blasting away at each other
With blazing thunderbolts

Hot chick vampire action ...

BELIEFS VS. DOGMAS: THE DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH
by Charles Carreon

A hot chick I knew in the seventies had a bumpersticker that said, “Sorry my karma ran over your dogma.” Would that it were often so. Rather, it seems to be the reverse. Suffering the karma of having others ...

ANANDA AND THE MERCHANTS OF RAJGIR
by Baksheesh the Madman

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Thus have I heard. Once while seated in a cool grove near the City of Rajgir with Ananda, and beholding the shining city peopled with the people of Rajgir, the World-Honoured One spake ...

A FLAMING FISTFUL OF REACTIONARY WISDOM
by Charles and Tara Carreon

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Are you a traditional Buddhist? Does it just chap your hide when you hear someone accusing traditional Eastern Buddhism of an authoritarian agenda? A little slow on the trigger ...

50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LAMA, by Charles Carreon

(Loosely, to the tune of Paul Simon's "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover")

They’ve been enslaved so long, says Ambu wistfully,
The answer’s easy – but they won’t think logically.
They’re scared to ask for help as they struggle to be free, but ...

PART 2 OF 2 (RUDE AWAKENING, CONT'D.)

Wipeout

For my wife, losing faith was about as painful as losing her skin. For over twenty years she had invested every waking thought in the project of self-perfection according to the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. She had performed a hundred thousand ...

When I discovered that the Shambhala organization had hit an iceberg, and saw its leadership frenziedly moving deck chairs around in an effort to keep students from heading for the lifeboats while the Sakyong paddled away with all of the biscuits, I wondered, "Can anyone help these Shambhalians ...

The Columbia Journalism Review just came out with an article about Andrea Winn , who published the Buddhist Project Sunshine reports . The thesis of the article is that sometimes journalism isn't actually up to the task of getting cult members to speak out about abuse. It takes someone like Andrea ...

PART 1 OF 2

RUDE AWAKENING -- A REVIEW OF "RAM DASS: FIERCE GRACE"
by Charles Carreon
March 14, 2006

It was summer 1970 in Boston. I arrived at Logan airport, and had a layover in Boston for the night, so I stuck out my thumb outside the airport and quickly had a ride with a guy in a cool ...

BORN IN TIBET, AGAIN: THE EXILE OF THE 12TH TRUNGPA TULKU
by Charles Carreon
November 17, 2005

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Trungpa XI

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Trungpa XI and Regent Osel Tendzin

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