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"AMERICAN BUDDHA IS A PRODUCTION OF TARA AND CHARLES CARREON, ICONOCLASTS OF A DIFFERENT ORDER ALTOGETHER"

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Index

May 26, 2020

The Absent Oxonian -- Musings on Trungpa's Faux Academic Credentials & Why So Few Cared to Inquire

 

March 16, 2020

Twilight of the Tulkus

 

September 2, 2019

Our Petition to the Colorado AG Has Been Sent With 226 Signatures & 167 Pgs. of Supporting Documents

 

September 2, 2019

Deification, Damnation & Delusion: The Method in the Madness of Sogyal's Eulogists

 

August 31, 2019

Petition Launched / Dharma Teachers: Retract Your Homages to Sogyal

 

August 29, 2019

Sogyal's Confession

 

August 14, 2019

The Invisible Pyramid, by Charles Carreon

 

August 13, 2019

Chris Chandler's Expose of Shambhala as a Mind Control Cult Is Required Reading, by Tara Carreon

 

August 5, 2019

Petition Launched -- Colorado AG: Investigate the Financial Activities of the Shambhala Nonprofit Organizations, by Charles Carreon

 

July 24, 2019

Crazy Like a Fox: In "Crazy Wisdom," Trungpa's Heirs Sacrifice Truth to Profit, by Charles Carreon

 

July 21, 2019

The Dialogue of the Yogi and the King, by Charles Carreon

 

July 14, 2019

The Jester Has His Say, by Charles Carreon

 

July 12, 2019

Gurdjieff & Trungpa, Sarmoung Brother-Hoods, by Charles Carreon

 

July 1, 2019

Shambhala Dodges Mandatory Reporting Duties That Expose it To Tort Damages in Boulder Child-sex Case, by Charles Carreon

 

June 22, 2019

Shambhala's Social Justice Deflection Gambit, by Charles Carreon

 

May 28, 2019

Faith vs. Knowledge, by Charles Carreon

 

May 27, 2019

The Myth of Enlightenment, by Charles Carreon

 

May 21, 2019

The Myth of Trungpa, by Charles Carreon

 

May 14, 2019

The Questionable Shambhala Practice of "Holding Space," by Charles Carreon

 

May 6, 2019

Against Hell: A Refutation of the Buddhist Hell Realms, Based on Their Historic Origins, Political Purpose, Psychological Destructiveness, Irrationality, and Demonstrable Inconsistency With the Original Buddhist Teachings, Framed as A Searching Review of Sam Bercholz’s After-Death Memoir, "A Guided Tour of Hell", by Charles Carreon

 

Mar 29, 2019

Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed, by Charles Carreon

 

Feb 24, 2019

The Myth of the Killer Bodhisattva, by Charles Carreon

 

Feb 20, 2019

Who We Are, by Charles Carreon

 

1977-1999

The Colestine Chronicles: A Drama of Dirt and Dharma, by Charles Carreon
A pictorial history of the adventures of the Carreon family in Colestine Valley, Oregon, from the early hippie days to the transformation of Rainbow Star Commune into Tashi Choling, Gyatrul Rinpoche's retreat center, including photographs of Dudjom Rinpoche's blessing of the land.

 

 

Copyright 2019, Tara & Charles Carreon
 


CLASSIC AMERICAN BUDDHA (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

The original American Buddha website started in year 2000, and grew organically from the search for meaningful expressions of the American Buddhist experience. We experimented with lots of different web designs.  Many of these pages are colorful, pictorial, playful and exuberant, and we invite you to browse them and enjoy the glories of our enthusiastic expressions.

 

FRONT PAGES

 

June, 2014

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish!: The Bodhisattva Marshall Plan

 

January, 2010

Nova Donna's Valentine

 

October, 2008

Evolve or Die, Earthlings

 

August, 2004

Viva!

 

August, 2003

American Buddha V.3.0

 

January, 2003

Child of Fortune

 

September, 2002

American Buddha V.2.0

 

SITE MAPS

 

February, 2010

Site Map C (Nova Donna)

 

August, 2004

Site Map B (Sexy)

 

August, 2004

Site Map A (From Y2K Khatmandu to the Summer of Love 2004)

 

BULLETIN BOARDS

 

January, 2014

AmbuVue3 BB

 

January, 2013

AmbuVue2 BB

 

January, 2013

Wanderjahr BB

 

January, 2010

AmbuVue1 BB

 

October, 2004

Solar Powered Adventures BB

 

Summer, 2004

Summer of Love BB

 

October, 2003

Your Mind, My God, Your Mind ... BB

 

May, 2003

Good Morning Buddhist America BB

 

February, 2003

Buddhist Boards 2 BB

 

November, 2002

Child of Fortune BB

 

September, 2002

American Buddha Message Board BB

 

LANDING PAGES

 

January, 2006

Child of Fortune Landing Page

 

July, 2005

404 Landing Page

 

November, 2004

The Way We Were

 

MEMBER LOGIN PAGES

 

February, 2009

We Have Your Page Here

 

July, 2005

Hey You!

 

ARTICLES & FEATURES

 

February 1, 2018

Politics and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Make Strange Bedfellows: A Leisurely Discussion of Jeff Sessions’ Memo to Federal Prosecutors on How to Protect the Religious Freedoms of Americans, by Charles Carreon

 

August 25, 2014

The Joy of Nothing, by Charles Carreon

 

August 24, 2014

The Bodhisattva Marshall Plan, Part 4: Eliminate Phony Law Enforcement, by Charles Carreon

 

June 23, 2014

The Bodhisattva Marshall Plan, Part 3: Eliminate Self-Identification of Americans as "Consumers", by Charles Carreon

 

June 15, 2014

The Bodhisattva Marshall Plan, Part 2: Eliminate Phony People, by Charles Carreon

 

June 1, 2014

The Bodhisattva Marshall Plan, Part 1: Eliminate Phony Democracy, by Charles Carreon

 

May 3, 2014

Who's Zenning Who?, by Charles Carreon

 

October 6, 2013

From Haight Ashbury to Silk Road, I Always Miss the Fun!, by Charles Carreon

 

June 14, 2012

The Oestian Way, by Charles Carreon

 

September, 2011

We Can Do This: Prajnaparamita Sutra Revealed, by Baksheesh the Madman

 

June 19, 2010

The Ram Dass Brain Hemorrhage Incident: An Opportunity to Explore Fundamental Questions of Spiritual Life, by Charles Carreon

 

February 11, 2010

The Fall and Rise of Leonard Cohen, by Charles Carreon

 

October 20, 2009

James Ray Sweatbox Tragedy: Get Rich or Die Frying, by Charles Carreon

 

August 16, 2009

Reprogram Yourself: A Refutation of the Methods and Conclusions of Stanley Milgram's Behavioral Classic, "Obedience to Authority," by Charles Carreon

 

June 1, 2009

Randomness: A Myth Scientists Created to Simulate Ignorance, by Charles Carreon

 

April 20, 2009

Are Nuclear Missiles Our Easter Island Statues?, by Charles Carreon

 

October 14, 2008

Leonard Cohen, Poisoned by Zen, by Charles Carreon

 

September 1, 2008

Beliefs vs. Dogmas: The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Religious Faith, by Charles Carreon

 

May 11, 2008

Science, the Scapegoat of Religion and Commerce, by Charles Carreon

 

August, 2007

The Radian of Our Being, by Charles Carreon

 

April 16, 2007

When Killing Becomes Holy, Everyone Wants to Pray, by Charles Carreon

 

November 1, 2006

Ayahuasca For the Masses, by Charles Carreon

 

June 1, 2006

Righteous Livelihood: Building Wealth in Our Community, by Charles Carreon

 

June, 2006

Dial-A-Materialist, by Charles Carreon

 

March 14, 2006

Rude Awakening: A Review of "Ram Dass: Fierce Grace," by Charles Carreon

 

January 26, 2006

A Law Unto Itself: The Vatican Rules, by Charles Carreon

 

December 25, 2005

On Marx and Darwin: Evolution and Capital, by Charles Carreon

 

November 17, 2005

The Revolution Will Not Be Capitalized: Che Guevara, by Charles Carreon

 

July, 2005

Is Krishna a Con?, by Charles Carreon

 

February, 2005

Seven Minutes in Tibet: The Swift, Unfortunate Death of Douglas Seymour Mackiernan, by Charles Carreon

 

February, 2005

Voidsuck This!: Charles Carreon’s Review of Riding The Torch by Norman Spinrad, by Charles Carreon

 

February, 2005

Embattled Sakyong Steps Down: Imaginary Press Release Two Years in the Future, by Tara Carreon

 

February, 2005

Born in Tibet, Again: The Exile of the Twelfth Trungpa Tulku -- How Sakyong Mipham Usurped the Trungpa Throne, by Charles Carreon

 

February, 2005

Thanks From a Grateful Nation: Awarding the Cross of Secret Achievement to the Dalai Lama, by Charles Carreon

 

October, 2004

Far Away In the City of Rome: A Song by Papal Bull (to a Poguish beat)

 

September, 2004

Ubik: Phil Dick's Answer to Death After Life, by Charles Carreon

 

June, 2004

Ananda and the Merchants of Rajgir, by Baksheesh the Madman

 

June, 2004

The Sutra of the Leaves, by Baksheesh the Madman

 

April, 2004

Fear of a Feeling Planet: A Review of Kurt Wimmer's "Equilibrium," by Charles Carreon

 

April, 2004

Diary of a Sense Offender: A Review of Kurt Wimmer's "Equilibrium," by Charles Carreon

 

April, 2004

The Tibetan Wall of Silence, by Charles Carreon

 

March 31, 2004

Home Sweet Home, by Odysseus the Wanderer

 

February, 2004

The Promised God Man is Weird

 

February, 2004

On Hell and Its Habitues, by Charles Carreon

 

February, 2004

The Materialist Manifesto, by Charles Carreon

 

December, 2003

Steven Seagal Comes Out of the Buddhist Closet, by Charles Carreon

 

December, 2003

The Dalai Lamas, Prisoners of the Potala Junta, by Charles Carreon

 

November, 2003

"Vee Have Veys of Making You Love Sentient Beings": Nazi Methods of Inducing "Bodhicitta", by Tara and Charles Carreon

 

November, 2003

Killer Krishnas From Inner Space, by Charles Carreon

 

October, 2003

Dharma Assassin Kusum Lingpa, by Charles Carreon

 

October, 2003

Tantra Induced Delusional Syndrome, by Charles Carreon

 

August, 2003

Sleepers Awake!, by Charles Carreon

 

August, 2003

Dr. Rick Strassman's "DMT: The Spirit Molecule", by Charles Carreon

 

August, 2003

Disillusioned by Authoritarian Doctrines, by Charles Carreon

 

June, 2003

A Song of Tara's Victory Over the Delusions of a Sorrowful Mind, by Kunzang Sherab

 

June, 2003

We Be Trippin' With Uma's Dad, aka Bob Thurman, The Monk, by Tara and Charles Carreon

 

April, 2003

Poetry, by Charles Carreon (Part 3)

Safe From Realization
Smug Pig
Sword of the Wind
The Boatman Song
The Samba of Ignorance
The Song of Deep-Field Tara
Tibetan Two-Step, Shuffle & Slide
Upon a Mighty Mountain
Vajra
Walking on the Razor's Edge
Whoa Earth
World Class Buddhist Shopper

 

March, 2003

Poetry, by Charles Carreon (Part 2)

Hard Time For a Free Mind
Holy Writ
Homage to the Lama
I Got My Buddhas
Internet Addiction
It's Tantra Baby
Michelangelo Said to Diego Rivera
On Buddhist Boards
Path of the Waning Day
Practical Wisdom
Psychic Cartography
Run Run Ambu Run

 

February, 2003

Poetry, by Charles Carreon (Part 1)

50 Ways to Leave Your Lama
A Circle of Ten Virtues
Ambu Baba and the Forty Thieves
Angels Do Not
A Cry of Vultures
Better Safe Than Sorry
Buddhist Horror Flick
Coffee Drinking Cockroach
Conan Doyle Said to Rudyard Kipling
Cosmic Enron Bookkeeping
Elvis Must Die

 

February, 2003

Hexagram 52, Interpreted by Charles Carreon

 

February, 2003

Inner Revolution: Robert Thurman Goes Back to the Future, by Tara Carreon

 

February, 2003

What Does Andrew Cohen Know About Enlightenment, by Charles Carreon

 

February, 2003

Mission Statement, by Charles Carreon

 

January, 2003

Buddha and Eros, by Baksheesh the Madman

 

January, 2003

Phil Dick's Yogacara Vision Through His Eye in the Sky, by Charles Carreon

 

January, 2003

A Flaming Fistful of Reactionary Wisdom, by Tara and Charles CarreonX

 

January, 2003

The Misuse of Western Terms by Eastern Mystics, by Charles Carreon

 

December, 2002

Tsu-Do Zen, by Charles Carreon

 

December, 2002

Whose Bread I Eat (Whose Song I Sing), by Charles Carreon

 

December, 2002

The Spirit of Open Inquiry, by Charles Carreon

 

December, 2002

Frequently Asked Questions About Tibetan Buddhism, by Charles Carreon

 

October, 2002

A Summary Outline of the United States Constitution, by Charles Carreon

 

Summer, 2002

Who Owns Dharma?, by Charles Carreon

 

October, 2001

A Visit to Arch Stanton's Dharma Clinic, aka Dr. Death's Reformatory, by Tara Carreon

 

Summer, 2001

Another View on Whether Tibetan Buddhism is Working in the West, by Tara Carreon

 

Spring, 2001

The Questionable Accuracy of Buddhist Texts, by Tara Carreon

 

Spring, 2001

What is Buddhism?, by Charles and Tara Carreon