Author - Rob Hogendoorn

I’m glad that online forums like Diffi•Cult exist. They offer a window to observe assertive...

Tenzin Peljor (also known as Tenpel and Michael Jäckel) now writes: “I have a question to...

On July 7, 2022 Tenzin Peljor (also known as Tenpel and Michael Jäckel) published a blogpost by a...

Dutch ‘tantra masseur’ Edwin M. lost his appeal today against a conviction for sexually...

Among the earliest interactions of the Dalai Lama with scientists is his meeting with physicist...

A worn-out cliché, falsely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, says: “The greatness of a nation...

‘Unfortunately, there’s a whole cultural phenomenon now, which is going very fast, in...

Speculation runs rife that the 16th Karmapa (b. 1924 d. 1981) abused an American woman, Kathy...

So, let me get this straight: According to Tenpel (aka Tenzin Peljor or Michael Jäckel), the...

There is no factual basis for Tibetan exceptionalism: Tibetans are a people like any other, Tibetan...

To mark the launch of the revised and updated second edition of Sex and Violence in Tibetan...

In 2014, shortly before the state visit to the Netherlands by the Chinese president Xi Jinping and...

In 2014, the open access, peer-reviewed journal Religions published my paper on the Dalai...

A sizeable part of my work is exceedingly boring but, ultimately, very rewarding. For instance, I...

These days, the fourteenth Dalai Lama loses no time in telling spiritual devotees of inveterate and...

Present-day Lamaism, the worship of deified Tibetan Buddhist teachers by gullible Western converts...

The Charity Commission for England and Wales chastises the Rigpa Fellowship in the United Kingdom...

Early 2009, the World Ethical Foundations Consortium cancelled the fourteenth Dalai Lama’s...

During the fourteenth Dalai Lama’s tour of the United States of America and Europe in 2014...

In 2004, some years after I stopped participating in a Tibetan Buddhist study programme that was...

In 2006, I came across the text of Alexander Berzin’s advice to Tibetan monastics of the...

In 1982, Daniel Bärlocher published the two volumes of his groundbreaking dissertation Testimonies...

In 1982, Franz Michael published Rule by Incarnation: Tibetan Buddhism and its Role in Society and...

In 1983, Glenn Mullin published his translation of the Third Dalai Lama’s ‘Essence of...

On September 17, 2018, the fourteenth Dalai Lama spoke to an audience of thousands in Rotterdam...

A handful of Buddhist journalists had every reason to investigate Gerhard Mattioli’s launch...

Today, on International Women’s Day, Oane Bijlsma publishes a self-penned story about her...

On February 23, 2020 the board of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) forwarded the minutes...

The board of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) drums up Dutch Rigpa chairman Jeroen...

I was privy to a disturbing incident the other day. It involved Michael Ritman, a Dutch devotee of...

Dutch director Laetitia Schoofs—the former head of a Buddhist network on national tv and radio...

In the spring of 2015, along with the Dutch Eight O’clock News, I reported various...

Dawa Norbu’s editorial in Tibetan Review of September 1976 focussed on sectarian harmony and...

In 2019, his student Khenpo Sodargye published some remarks by Khenpo Jikmé Püntsok (b. 1933 d...

In their recently published Sera Monastery, José Cabezón and Penpa Dorjee had this to say on...

January 30, 2008, a New York crowd gathered at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, to hear Lou...

In 2004, Achok Rinpoché (b. 1944), then director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in...

In 1980, the Tibetan lama Gelek Rinpoché (b. 1939 d. 2017, A) was interviewed by Daniel Bärlocher...

In 1992, Dagyab Rinpoché cautioned against the ‘Tulku Boom’ among exiled...

On October 25, 2019, during an interaction with college students in his residence in Dharamsala...

In 2006, German author Egbert Asshauer shared the critical perspective of two Tibetan politicians...

German reseacher Miriam Anders (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology...

In 2015, Khenpo Sodargye published a collection of sayings by his teacher Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok (b...

In 1998, journalist Mick Brown (‘The Telegraph’) published a conversation with Tenzin...

In 1979 the fourteenth Dalai Lama shared the following observations on the (de)merits of the formal...

The online investigative platform Open Buddhism has maintained a high-profile presence in the...