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===New Kadampa Tradition=== {{Main|New Kadampa Tradition#Ordination}} The Buddhist ordination tradition of the [[New Kadampa Tradition]]-International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) is not the traditional Buddhist ordination, but rather one newly created by [[Kelsang Gyatso]]. Although those ordained within this organisation are called 'monks' and 'nuns' within the organisation, and wear the robes of traditional Tibetan monks and nuns, in terms of traditional Buddhism they are neither fully ordained monks and nuns (Skt.: [[Bhikkhu|bhikshu]], [[Bhikkhuni|bhikshuni]]; Tib.: gelong, gelongma) nor are they novice monks and nuns (Skt.: sramanera, srameneri; Tib.: gestul, getsulma).<ref name="info-buddhism.com">{{cite web|url=http://info-buddhism.com/new_kadampa_tradition.html#Ordination|title=New Kadampa Tradition – Kadampa Buddhism (NKT-IKBU) – Kadampa Meditation Center|website=info-buddhism.com|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705125525/https://info-buddhism.com/new_kadampa_tradition.html#Ordination|archive-date=5 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/|title=Vinaya Pitaka: The Basket of the Discipline|website=www.accesstoinsight.org|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509220219/https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/|archive-date=9 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.budsas.org/ebud/whatbudbeliev/148.htm|title=What Buddhists Believe – What is Vinaya?|last=BuddhaSasana|website=www.budsas.org|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827074242/http://www.budsas.org/ebud/whatbudbeliev/148.htm|archive-date=27 August 2017}}</ref> Unlike most other Buddhist traditions, including all Tibetan Buddhist schools, which follow the Vinaya, the NKT-IKBU ordination consists of the [[Five Precepts]] of a lay person, plus five more precepts created by [[Kelsang Gyatso]]. He is said to view them as a "practical condensation" of the 253 Vinaya vows of fully ordained monks.<ref name="info-buddhism.com"/> There are also no formal instructions and guidelines for the behaviour of monks and nuns within the NKT. Because the behaviour of monks and nuns is not clearly defined "each Resident Teacher developed his or her own way of 'disciplining' monks and nuns at their centres ...".<ref>Realising the Guru's Intention: Hungry Humans and Awkward Animals in a New Kadampa Tradition community by Carol McQuire, in Spiritual and Visionary Communities – Out to Save the World, Ashgate Publishing, 2013, pp. 72–73</ref> Kelsang Gyatso's ordination has been publicly criticised by Geshe [[Tashi Tsering (Jamyang Buddhist Centre)|Tashi Tsering]] as going against the core teachings of Buddhism and against the teachings of Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa school from which Kelsang Gyatso was expelled<ref>Expulsion letter: {{cite web |url=http://info-buddhismus.de/200514.pdf |title=To the Tibetan Buddhists around the world and fellow Tibetan compatriots within and outside Tibet |access-date=23 February 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306035621/http://info-buddhismus.de/200514.pdf |archive-date=6 March 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhckkxSgQ8g|title=(part 1) Geshe Tashi explains Buddhist ordination rite|last=Londonnay ལོན་ཏོན་ནས།|date=29 October 2015|access-date=9 May 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922035412/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhckkxSgQ8g|archive-date=22 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKZK6DAzKto|title=(part 2) Geshe Tashi challenges NKT Buddhist ordination rite|last=Londonnay ལོན་ཏོན་ནས།|date=2 November 2015|access-date=9 May 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509220105/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKZK6DAzKto|archive-date=9 May 2018}}</ref>
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