Tibetan Lama Dagri Rinpoche faces “Me Too” allegations
By Lobsang Wangyal
McLEOD GANJ, India, 8 May 2019
Dagri Rinpoche in a 2013 file photo.
Senior Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dagri Rinpoche, who had been accused of molestation earlier this month while on a flight from Delhi to Gaggal, is now facing another molestation charge.
On 3 May a woman filed a police complaint stating that Dagri Rinpoche molested her on board Air India flight that day. Gaggal police detained him for enquiries.
The investigations are going on, but the 65-year-old Rinpoche is now said to be out on bail.
Following this incident, Jakaira Perez Valdivia from Spain has come out with a video accusing him of molesting her at his residence at Namgyal Monastery in McLeod Ganj in 2008. At the time she was a Buddhist nun and living in Dharamshala.
In a YouTube video that Valdivia posted on Tuesday, she said that it took a long time for her to come out and tell what had happened because some people tried to convince her that it didn’t happen, or that whatever he did was out of compassion.
She said in the video that she knew of many other women who had been molested by Dagri Rinpoche. She urged them to come forward to tell their stories.
In 2010, Valdivia wrote a four-page declaration detailing the incident, in which she explained that she had approached Rinpoche for blessing and advice for a disk hernia problem so that she could avoid surgery.
Rinpoche invited her to his residence where he asked her to lay down and take off her clothes so that he could perform “some work” on her. Trusting in him as a revered monk, she removed her outer layer of robes.
He gave her an alcoholic drink saying it was a “holy substance”, which he drank several times during the session, also pouring it on her body.
He touched her body, tried to reach her private parts, and pushed his penis against her back all the while she was protecting herself from his actions.
The four-page statement she wrote was given to the Kangra police. Copies were sent to the Dalai Lama’s Office, and also to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) as he is one of FPMT’s revered touring teachers.
The Dalai Lama’s office set up a meeting between the two of them, for Dagri Rinpoche to apologise. Valdivia said that since he apologised, she didn’t go to the police. FPMT members said he was trying to give a compassionate massage to her.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is very close to Dagri Rinpoche. Dagri Rinpoche is said to be the number two man after Lama Zopa in FPMT. He is said to inherit the organization after Lama Zopa. FPMT has heavily promoted Dagri Rinpoche.
Dagri Rinpoche was born in Tibet in 1958 and escaped to India in 1982. He is a reincarnation of a great geshe of Lhasa, Pari Dorje Chang, and holds a Geshe Lharampa degree (equivalent to PhD).
Valdivia concluded her video by saying: “Dharma is about telling the truth.” She called on FPMT to face the truth, asking: “What will you do now?”
Source: https://www.tibetsun.com/news/2019/05/08/tibetan-lama-dagri-rinpoche-faces-me-too-allegations
Screenshot of tibetsun.com’s article
Adelaide Foster says she has reported Dagri Rinpoche years ago for molesting woman and Lama Zopa Rinpoche told her to keep silent about it and not talk about it. Which means Lama Zopa and his top brass in FPMT would have known about Dagri Rinpoche’s dalliances and yet still did nothing about it.
Ms. Jaki’s heartfelt video expressing her anger, hurt, pain and disgust that Dagri Rinpoche is still on the prowl and Lama Zopa Rinpoche and FPMT did nothing even after she reported the incident. She was hushed up. Now ten years later she is speaking up because Dagri Rinpoche was arrested for molesting a woman on a Kangra plane flight and arrested. Dagri Rinpoche has been molesting woman for decades.
Jaki’s original video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05xLBZ_1WU
Ms. Jaki was a Buddhist nun over ten years ago when she was molested by Dagri Rinpoche of FPMT. She made a full police report with four page statutory declaration.
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Above is Jaki’s statutory declaration, lodged at Kangra Police Station and notarized in Dharamsala
Media reports:
This Indian newspaper explains that Dagri Rinpoche is a member of the Dalai Lama’s Office and has been accused of assaulting a woman on a flight from Delhi to Gaggal Airport.
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