About
This website is in construction. The origin of the controversial Tibetan teachers comes from this source.
The goal of this website is to explore this list, redraft a page for each case and design a simple profile page with resources and links, allow cases to be filtered by confirmed cases, ongoing judicial trials, convicted teachers etc…
It will take a lot of time and effort to create a useful website for Buddhists worldwide, a website that will help them know in advance what teachers and centers to avoid, and why, with information and links to objective information to help them make an informed decision.
This website originated from discussions among victims of tibetan buddhism from various countries, its intentions is to warn Tibetan Buddhism students around the world about the reality since the Lineage Holders, Schools and main personality of the Tibetan Buddhism refuse to take any form of action since decades.
Due to costs reason, since 2025, this website is kindly hosted by the ChardonsBleus Association
Why ?
- if Tibetan Lineage Holders are unable since decades to speak out publicly and clean the Temple, it’s up to civil society to do the work and protect innocent people from entering toxic cults drifting away and producing harm to innocent human beings.
How ?
How to help
- Help raise awareness using social media
- send any relevant information about unknown cases
- send relevant information about existing and known cases
- help us compile a list that will actually help people interested in Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism in particular
- Suggest ideas info@abusesintibetanbuddhism.info
Inspiration
More than a decade ago, there was a domain called tibetanlama.com – it was a good idea that was then abandoned, why ?
This is a quote from the About page of this website now silent.
The mission of this website is to promote the true masters of Tibetan Buddhism and provide their teachings to people. Tibetan Buddhism is spread all over the world today with more than 200 million adherents of Mahayana and Vajrayana Traditions.
This website will list Tibetan Lama’s, Buddhist Teachers and Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana toxic cults in the hope that more harm can be avoided with the correct information available for people to make informed choices.
Links
Investigative Journalism on the issue
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell October 28, 2024Numerous Buddhists are obsessed with the authenticity of their teachers' lineage, and thus of their own as practitioners. The members of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) are a prime example. They have yet to publicly acknowledge and own up to their decades-long history of enabling all kinds of abuses. And so these organisations […]
- Buddhas Can Do No Harm, Full Stop June 27, 2024Following Sogyal Lakar's demise on 28 August 2019 in Bangkok, his organisation Rigpa and temple Lerab Ling in Roqueronde, France commenced a series of live streams that the remaining members worldwide could view online. One of them captured (with the exception of a few select moments) these streams and made them available to me. I'm […]
- Buddhist Union’s Cultural Relativism and Moral Leniency Increase Risk of Long-term Abuse June 1, 2024Introduction In 2015, the Dutch Minister of Justice answered a question from two members of parliament thus: 'It is primarily the responsibility of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) to prevent Buddhist monks and/or teachers from committing (sexual) abuse.' However, the BUN has been dragging its feet in enforcing its statutory requirements, which were […]
- Buddhist Rumours, Backbiting and Cyberbullying: Thai Embassy Steps In May 15, 2024Reporters Bas de Vries of the Dutch national news network NOS, Chris Bakker of the regional network Omroep Brabant and Rob Hogendoorn of Open Buddhism have been investigating a long-standing conflict over the governance of the Buddharama temple in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, in recent months. This multilevel dispute about the oldest Thai Buddhist temple in […]
- What Is It Like To Be A Buddha? April 14, 2024Unique, Rewarding Exhibition The unique, rewarding exhibition 'The Buddha: From Life Story to Inspiration' shows the life story of the historical Buddha, connecting it with the lives of those who are inspired by him in the here and now. So, a feast for the eyes and a balm for the mind awaits visitors to the […]
- Phantom Temples And Fake Curricula March 20, 2024'Fake Diploma Factory' The other day, Heleen D'Haens, the correspondent in Italy of the Dutch news network NOS, wrote about a faux university in Palermo, Sicily that presented itself as the Italian branch of Goražde University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The fraud was discovered when the mothers of graduates who were not allowed to register […]
- Judge Normán Grants Request For A Stay In Palpung Thubten Chöling Case March 12, 2024On 11 March 2024, Presiding Judge Nelson Stephen Román granted the parties' request of a ninety-day stay in the abuse case that three female plaintiffs brought against the Tibetan Buddhist organisation Palpung Thubten Chöling (PTC, formerly known as Kagyu Thubten Chöling (KTC)). This means that all proceedings are stayed until 6 June 2024, to give […]
- ‘Holding Buddhist Organizations Accountable for Abuse: Exploring Legal Consequences’ March 12, 2024Interview by Damchö Diana Finnegan with lawyer Carol Merchasin of the law firm McAllister Olivarius in New York. Merchasin currently serves as the lawyer of three plaintiffs in their civil case against the Tibetan Buddhist organisation Palpung Thubten Chöling in Wappinger Falls, New York. In particular, Merchasin explains how legal proceedings can teach Buddhist organisations […]
- Palpung Thubten Chöling And Plaintiffs Aim To Discuss Settlement March 10, 2024Proceedings Thus Far On November 17, 2023, three female plaintiffs identified as Jane Doe 1, 2, and 3 filed a Complaint and Demand for a Trial by Jury against the Tibetan Buddhist organisation Palpung Thubten Chöling (PTC, formerly known as Kagyu Thubten Chöling (KTC)) in Wappinger Falls, New York. The Complaint alleges, among other things, […]
- The Troubled Troubadour’s Muse March 8, 2024In his documentary 'Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love' (2019) Nick Broomfield (b. 1948) rhapsodises about the life-long casual relationship between Leonard Cohen (d. 2016) and Marianne Ihlen (d. 2016) who was immortalised in his songs 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Bird On The Wire.' I was struck by Broomfield's facile rationalisation of Cohen's erotic compulsions […]