One of the ways that Trirata most clearly resembles a standard "High Demand Group" rather than a true Buddhist Sangha is in the way it has supported various bizarre and fanatical ideologies.
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This is a personal account from a woman ex-order member in Triratna, including her observations on how institutionalised views about women, families and parenthood interacted with coercion about life choices; something that she both witnessed and experienced firsthand in the group as part of ordination training courses.
In a cult, the ability to decide if and when to have a child — perhaps the most basic decision in a woman’s life — is taken over…
This is one reason why, though women and men both suffer in the iron grip of charismatic and authoritarian cult leaders, women followers face a unique set of life-altering issues
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How Sangharakshita's particular sexual orientation influenced his particular presentation of the dharma
. . . part of the appeal of FWBO therapeutic blasphemy was the sheer delight of expressing negativity and reveling in being right.
Reflections on the dangers of charismatic authority in the FWBO sparked by the publication of Subhuti's book Women, Men & Angels, written by a former order member in the...
