What is the status of cracking down Dhammakaya?

The Watercooler
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Wow, the way AlexM describes this group it reminds of evangelical churches in Latin America.

Here in the west, nazi infused Buddhism is becoming popular online. I find it hard to believe but it is happening. Even worse people excuse it and are keeping quite about it.

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Luckily I think that is only one particular Buddhist, a Canadian unfortunately, unless he is developing a following :s.

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He seems to be developing a following and even has an American monk on his team. A far right monk that has followers on dhammawheel.

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The Russian-American one? There are so many far-right monks in cyberspace these days it’s hard to count. Yeah, DhammaWheel also is a wild place as of late. Eh? I used to post there a lot but never do anymore. The old conversations from pre-2014 are a gold mine, or can be, though.

Can you PM me if you have evidence of teachings associated with Brian Ruhe being propagated there?

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Thank you for sharing this!

As I have never heard of the Dhammakaya movement I found it to be a fascinating read—though the story it tells is a depressingly familiar one.

In fact, the tale of Phra Dhammajayo is if anything, quite banal.

:heart::pray::heart:

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I’m completely gobsmacked.

At this, I had to Google. I listened to about 10 seconds of Mr. Ruhe on YouTube and have had enough.

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You’ll be pleased to know we banned him from this forum when he tried to post here.

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I haven’t been on this forum in a while but I just logged on and there was a like to my comment from Brian Ruhe. lol