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earlier comments

Hello everyone, I too hope you are well

Forgive my being bold, but I have made a number of changes - 'well-known' is to my mind a matter of opinion. What happened to Conishead Priory after it ceased to be the Manjushri Institute in 1984 seems to me to be nothing to do with an article on the FPMT. I think a citation is needed for the data on the number of centers.

hope this makes sense, cheers Excellentone 14:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi everyone, hope you are well.

I have made 2 changes.

I took out the reference to Dorje Shugden. According to this FPMT website, Lama Yeshe was a Dorje Shugden practioner [1] -

"Kopan Monastery had been performing the Dorje Shugden practice from the beginning, as this was Lama Yeshe’s main protector"

Therefore the dispute was not about this practice. It has been discussed in length on the [New Kadampa Traditon] site and discussion page. I do not know enought about it to add an details to this site.

I also added a link about the Maitreya project, hope this doesn't break any rules.

Cheers

Patrick --Patrick K 09:00, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, I had another go at the statment around Manjushri Centre. I took this info from New Kadampa Tradition wiki page and discussion. I have tried to keep to the facts.

Are there any FPMT people on wikipedia? It would be interesting to have some more info about your organisation - as you can see on the NKT page, there is quite a lot of detail on the books and study programmes.

Cheers Patrick --Patrick K 08:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

removed POV and unsourced controversy stuff

who added the long controversy section without giving even a source for it? So I removed it. FPMT is described in detail in Bluck's British Buddhism, David N. Kay's research and Cozort's short research article, see NKT article references. Regarding Shugden there was no notable controversy on it because both lamas accepted to stop that practice and it seems they had no problem of doing so. Or do you have any other source which saying the opposite? Regards kt66

removed that point completely. My arguments are: 1. no sources were given; 2. that FPMT lost one of their main centers to NKT is may not be a controversy from the site of the FPMT. If someone takes a thing away from me, without my agreement, such behaviour may be controversial from the site of the taker but what is there controversial from the site of the one who lost his belongings to such a "taker"? At the end they never mentioned this lost much in the public they rather "swallowed" it without bringing it to the public. However, if you have sources, we can add of course controversial points, but I have not seen one or a source for it until now and also the section offered no sources. That's why I removed that point completely. Regards, --Kt66 18:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]