What is the New Kadampa Tradition?

"A Buddhist sect at the centre of complaints from concerned families is seeking to strengthen its North powerbase.

Followers of the New Kadampa Tradition, once linked with allegations of a plot to overthrow the Dalai Lama, already boast a string of UK properties including two country houses, one of them their headquarters and home of their spiritual leader.

Overseas worshippers of the deity Dorje Shugden have been questioned over the brutal murder and mutilation of one of the Nobel Prize-winning Dalai Lama's closest confidants and two other monks.

And devotees in the NKT have been accused of putting family relationships under strain as their acolytes follow a fast track into the faith.

The NKT is now planning to open a new residential centre in Newcastle. In addition to the sect's HQ in a neo-gothic mansion in Ulverston, Cumbria, the NKT has an established residential centre in Milton Street, Darlington, County Durham, and a Georgian mansion near York.

It already holds teachings in 16 other North-East towns or cities, and plans new sessions in Hexham, Northumberland, and Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.

Ian Howarth, of the support group the Cult Information Centre, said: "We have certainly had complaints about NKT activities, and we are very concerned about them."

The centre has been approached by families and friends of some NKT members worried about personality changes among a number of people who join the group putting strain on relationships.

Concerns have also been expressed about the depth of commitment members make within a relatively short time of contacting the NKT, and about the group's opposition to the Dalai Lama.

The NKT is believed to be Britain's fastest-growing Buddhist sect with more than 3,000 members, and a publishing business.
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The full article from the Rick A. Ross Institute (RRI) can be read here.

some other good links to read...

Worries as Buddhist sect spreads in North - Residential centre to be opened
The Journal (UK)/January 26, 1999
By Gareth Walsh

Buddhist Cults and Cult-like Organisations
http://www.buddhistcouncil.org/cults.htm

Tibetan Murder Mystery
Legal Affairs - May/June 2003
by Ted Kerasote

Death threats to Dalai Lama blamed on rival Bhuddist sect
By Umarah Jamali in New Delhi
November 16 2002

Schisms, murder, and hungry ghosts in Shangra-La - internal conflicts in Tibetan Buddhist sect
Cross Currents,  Spring, 1999  by Mike Wilson

Did an obscure Tibetan sect murder three monks close to the Dalai Lama?
© Newsweek April 28 1997 - Posted on May 6, 1997 by World Tibet News

Feud Divides Tibetan Buddhists: Dalai Lama angers deity's devotees
World Tibet Network News
Friday, June 6, 1997

Documents on the Dorje Shugden - New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) Controversy
CESNUR (Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni)

Letter of expulsion
NKT leader expulsed out of Sera Monastery

New Kadampa Tradition:Take Over Transcription
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Who killed three of the Dalai Lama's inner circle?
By Tony Clifton with Suzanne Miller in London

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