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Sexual assaults and violent rages… Inside the dark world of Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche
Sep. 22 | by Mick Brown 21 SEPTEMBER 2017 • 6:00AM Sogyal Rinpoche as a guest speaker at a healing seminar in Melbourne in 2004 CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES In August last year, Sogyal Rinpoche, the Tibetan lama whose book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying has sold...
Is Dalai Lama to blame for Raniere endorsement while Tenzin was ‘sleeping with Sara Bronfman’?
Sep. 9 | Should Lama Tenzin be defrocked? Is Dalai Lama to blame for Raniere endorsement while Tenzin was ‘sleeping with Sara Bronfman’? The hypocrisy is stunning. Normally people’s sex lives are private. But not when you are a teacher of ethics who...
Dalai Lama Speaks Out about Sogyal Rinpoche
Aug. 17 | His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls Sogyal Rinpoche “disgraced” and stresses that nobody should follow the teachings of any lama without question – not even from himself – stressing that they must live up to the teachings...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Lying
Aug. 13 | One of the most successful Buddhist teachers in the West steps down after accusations of sexual misconduct and battery. By Michaela Haas When Oane Bijlsma walked into Rigpa’s Buddhist meditation center in Amsterdam for the first time, she was at a crossroads:...
Dalai Lama denounces ethical misconduct by Buddhist teachers
Aug. 9 | BY SAM LITTLEFAIR| AUGUST 8, 2017 The Dalai Lama said that when a teacher commits ethical misconduct and disregards Buddhist ethics, students should make the misconduct public. In a talk last week, the Dalai Lama addressed recent allegations of misconduct...
TIBETAN REFUGEES ENGAGE IN SEX TRAFFICKING
Jul. 11 | POSTED: JUL 11 2017 10:59AM CDT EDINA, Minn. (KMSP) – Two men have been charged for their roles in a sex trafficking operation that brought Chinese women to Edina and Richfield, Minnesota, for commercial sex. Sonam Tsering, 36, of Plymouth,...
Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal’s apartment
Jul. 11 | 5 Jul, 2017 1:35pm Vatican police have raided a cardinal’s apartment where a drug-fuelled homosexual orgy was taking place. Police entered an apartment at the former palace of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (or Holy Office) last...
A Q&A WITH ORGYEN TOBGYAL RINPOCHE
Mar. 29 | THE GRILLING A Q&A WITH ORGYEN TOBGYAL RINPOCHE THE SUBJECT: DZONGSAR KHYENTSE RINPOCHE Paris, 5 July 2015 Would you tell us a bit about Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse? ‘Dzongsar’ is the name of a Sakyapa monastery in Kham, and ‘Khyentse’ was...
