A handful of Buddhist journalists had every reason to investigate Gerhard Mattioli’s launch...
Author - Rob Hogendoorn
Oane Bijlsma Speaks for Herself
Today, on International Women’s Day, Oane Bijlsma publishes a self-penned story about her...
Target Practice: A Buddhist Union’s Framing Tactics
On February 23, 2020 the board of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) forwarded the minutes...
The Dutch Buddhist Union’s Chilling Actions
The board of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) drums up Dutch Rigpa chairman Jeroen...
A False Narrative
I was privy to a disturbing incident the other day. It involved Michael Ritman, a Dutch devotee of...
As far as Buddhists are concerned: Anything goes
Dutch director Laetitia Schoofs—the former head of a Buddhist network on national tv and radio...
Least Protected of All
In the spring of 2015, along with the Dutch Eight O’clock News, I reported various...
Said Dawa Norbu in 1976…
Dawa Norbu’s editorial in Tibetan Review of September 1976 focussed on sectarian harmony and...
Said Rob Hogendoorn in 2014…
In 2014, the open access, peer-reviewed journal Religions published my paper on the Dalai...
Said Khenpo Jikmé Püntsok in 2019
In 2019, his student Khenpo Sodargye published some remarks by Khenpo Jikmé Püntsok (b. 1933 d...
Said José Cabezón and Penpa Dorjee in 2019…
In their recently published Sera Monastery, José Cabezón and Penpa Dorjee had this to say on...
Said Lou Reed in 2008…
January 30, 2008, a New York crowd gathered at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, to hear Lou...
Said Achok Rinpoché in 2004…
In 2004, Achok Rinpoché (b. 1944), then director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in...
Said Gelek Rinpoché in 1980…
In 1980, the Tibetan lama Gelek Rinpoché (b. 1939 d. 2017, A) was interviewed by Daniel Bärlocher...
Said Dagyab Rinpoché in 1992…
In 1992, Dagyab Rinpoché cautioned against the ‘Tulku Boom’ among exiled...
Said the Dalai Lama in 2019…
On October 25, 2019, during an interaction with college students in his residence in Dharamsala...
Said Egbert Asshauer in 2006…
In 2006, German author Egbert Asshauer shared the critical perspective of two Tibetan politicians...
Said Miriam Anders in 2019…
German reseacher Miriam Anders (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology...
Said Khenpo Jikmé Püntsok in 2015…
In 2015, Khenpo Sodargye published a collection of sayings by his teacher Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok (b...
Said Tenzin Choegyal in 1998…
In 1998, journalist Mick Brown (‘The Telegraph’) published a conversation with Tenzin...
Said the Dalai Lama in 1979…
In 1979 the fourteenth Dalai Lama shared the following observations on the (de)merits of the formal...
Western Buddhists in the #MeToo Era
The online investigative platform Open Buddhism has maintained a high-profile presence in the...