Articles, Press and resources to better understand the OKC-Spatz judicial case from 1997 to 2021
It’s moving to read you, to find yourself at the bend of these verbs… even if we would have liked to see each other in more joyful conditions.
It’s moving to read you, to find yourself at the bend of these verbs… even if we had liked to see ourselves in happier conditions. I really like the answer “And the others,…” In memory of the beautiful writing, I remember all of you, our laughter, our loves, our beliefs, the intensity of our lives,…
If you don’t know the OKC-Spatz story here is 3 articles you should definitely read :
Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling survivor. https://buddhism-controversy-blog.com/2017/10/29/testimony-from-an-ogyen-kunsang-choling-okc-survivo… verdict: 4 years suspended sentence : https://buddhism-controversy-blog.com/2017/03/11/robert-spatz-the-ogyen-kunsang-choling-cults-guru-g… Abuse and Buddhism – Behind the Smiling Facade : https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html
Hearings, pleadings and replies to trial #SPATZ #OKC completed.
Hearings, pleadings and replies to trial #SPATZ #OKC concluded. Deliberation + judicial recess and it resumes on Thursday, September 15 with judgment. Yesterday with the end of the defense’s replies we saw Spatz’s lawyer become more Spatzist than the guru himself by adopting his doctrine himself and spreading it for an hour in the courtroom…
Naming and Shaming : Robert Spatz aka Lama Kunzang currently in trial since 20 Years, They KNOW ! #metooguru
List of Tibetan Teachers being used by @OgyenKun to appear like a legit Buddhist center by using the name and images of known Buddhists teachers. Including the @Dalailama In 2016 and 20 years before the trial all these Tibetans were assembled into one only page now broken so it looks like OKC wants to have the…
Dalai Lama admits he knew about Buddhist teachers′ sexual abuse | #metooguru
The Tibetan spiritual leader told Dutch TV he has known about the sex crimes in Europe since the 1990s. He was presented with written accounts from 12 alleged victims from Belgium and the Netherlands. Source
“Whenever exploitation, sexual abuse or money abuse happen,” the Dalai Lama says, “make them public” (Leonard, 2001).
“Whenever exploitation, sexual abuse or money abuse happen,” the Dalai Lama says, “make them public” (Leonard, 2001). “When teachers break the precepts, behaving in ways that are clearly damaging to themselves and others, students must face the situation, even though this can be challenging. ‘Criticize openly,’ Dalai-Lama declared. ‘That’s the only way.’ If there is…
Dear Buddhists : F*** the absolute level, a crime is a crime. period
Just the idea or notion that “at an absolute level there is no good and bad” is equal to a fundamentalist extremist view 99% of the time not deeply realized by the student or the teacher crafted to evade relative reality consequences of sick behavior that is rooted in ignorance and suffering and sometimes in…
A Storm is Coming: Tibetan #Buddhism in the West #SexAbuse #TeacherPredator #Metoo
In Nyima Dzong, people were indoctrinated to see everything in a positive light. Negative thoughts were said to be signs of a clouded mind. Only Robert S. allegedly had access to ‘true reality’. He quoted Tibetan teachers with whom he had supposedly studied in India. And various Tibetan teachers made him seem legitimate by visiting…
Mingyur Rinpoche on Breach of Samaya
Mingyur Rinpoche on Breach of Samaya : <<…if there is a long-standing pattern of ethical violations, or if the abuse is extreme, or if the teacher is unwilling to take responsibility, it is appropriate to bring the behavior out into the open. In these circumstances, it is not a breach of samaya to bring painful…
Top Tibetan Buddhist leaders to hear sex abuse allegations against lamas in the West?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep16, 2018) – Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has, on Sep 14, reportedly undertaken to raise the issue of Tibetan Buddhist masters’ alleged sex and related emotional abuse of their students in the West during the upcoming November meeting in Dharamshala of the top leaders of all the religious schools of Tibet.…
Archie Media OKC-Spatz-cult 93-2016
Archive Presse OKC-Spatz-secte 93-2016 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7ZZBZAiuR-zWEh3Q2pmSnJWdk0 #okcproces
Paedophile who fled Airdrie before sentencing resurfaces as a Monk in Mexico #Buddhism
This has nothing to do with OKC or with the OKCinfo initiative but one common point is fleeing from one place to another and continuing abuses in total impunity. It seems these days anyone can be “monk” like anyone can be “anonymous” and the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy will not move a inch because well :…
Breaking the Silence on Sexual Misconduct in Buddhist cults (read Sexual Abuses) #metoo
Lama Willa Miller offers both her painful firsthand account of sexual misconduct by a guru and profound insight for fellow survivors and communities. https://www.lionsroar.com/breaking-the-silence-on-sexual-misconduct/
Some of OKC/Spatz victims replies to this article with more context
Some of OKC/Spatz victims replies to this article with more context : Wangdrag, thank you for posting this information. I was one of the children raised in this community and involved in the lawsuit. Speaking out against the community was a harrowing experience. People were in deep denial and continued to turn their heads as…
Fundraiser by and for OKCinfo : Justice for OKCvictims #MeToo #Cult
We need all the help we can get, so if you can afford it all donations are welcome and will be used to pay for lawyers fees, mental & physical support for the victims while this trial is ongoing, plane tickets to allow the civil parties living abroad to travel to be present at audiences…
Another insulting, supposedly “humorous” Dzongsar Jamyang Khentse rant against “Liberal Westerners” #Buddhism
Is Dzongsar the new Tibetan Trump ? Such Arrogance ! Dzongzar has totally lost the plot. He’s a ham actor playing to the gallery. His “humour” is not even vaguely funny. He misses every point that matters. The price you pay for celebrity status. He’d be better off sticking to makingmovies. He has been mocking…
Against the Beatification of Sogyal Lakar & Supporting the victims of RIGPA
May the death of Sogyal Lakar be a reckoning moment with both the good and the bad he did to his own students, may his passing be a moment of truth to Sogyal Lakar so that at least in death he be confronted to the reality of the sexual and spiritual abuses he undertook his…
There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children’s
There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children’s, no greater violence than to deny childhood to children, even to just one of them. Ultimately if robbing childhood of children is already a crime, sexually abusing children or imposing physical harsh treatments is the height of human ignorance. The price for…
Just a few ideas/advices to the courageous 8 from #RIGPA
– do not wait. go to justice, make a formal complaint, it will open a case and be part of the instruction. Sooner the better. – The people on the board will not face much, even more if they are not directly responsible for the abuses, they will not make any jail time, will probably…
The OKC cult case ends with another fiasco for the Belgian Justice system #okcinfo #belgium #cults
23 victims had filed civil claims for rape, sexual assault and financial crimes. The public prosecutor, the first judge and a judicial expert take it for their rank. Would it be good to live in Belgium for cults? Two and a half years after the spectacular end of the Scientology trial in Brussels, the OKC…
A Letter to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Concerning “Guru and Student in the Vajrayana” – How Did It Happen?
In your letter, you emphasized that Vajrayana needs to be properly introduced. What I understood from your letter is that even though an authentic Vajra Master can pretty much do whatever they see fit, the relationship needs to be properly established. You say the Vajrayana teachings lay this out clearly. From this point of view,…
The Tibetan Book of Living and Lying #sogyal #rigpa – #robertspatz #OKC
By now everybody has heard of the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. But Buddhism still enjoys a reputation of being non-violent, open-minded, and pro-women.
H.H. the Dalai Lama’s Comments on the Troubles in #Rigpa – Tibetan Buddhism – #MeToo
Comment by RH in Contemporary Buddhism Group : It is encouraging that the Dalai Lama, at long last, spoke out openly about Sogyal Lakar and Rigpa. We should not forget, however, that he did so only after survivors’ stories and questions by reporters worldwide made it inevitable. Likewise, we should not forget that for decades…
The untold short story of #OKC and Robert Spatz aka Ogyen Kunzang Chöling #Buddhism #SexualAbuse #Cult
At some point NOT taking a position is equal to being complicit to criminals so in the aftermath of the #rigpa brave 8 students that found the courage to speak, we at #OKCinfo have some advice : – Do not make the same mistake we did by not speaking earlier and by not going to…
Sometimes winning a battle is about knowing when to let it go ! #okcinfo #okcspatz #metooguru #metoo
Thanks to all your donations both offline and online, we now reached 4.538€ we still have to top-up with 2000€ to reach the first step of being able to pay the lawyers. If you can still share this campaign via email, social media or word of mouth please Know that each of these little things…
Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor #sexualabuse #buddhism #rape #metoo
The following comment was posted by a Buddhist as a comment after having shared Ben’s powerpoint presentation “40 Years of Abuse in the Name of Dharma by ex-OKC born-kids” on Facebook. Ben who stands behind this entire thing has a financial interest and is generally against Buddhism. The whole matter is already old and has…
A crucial quote from ‘The Holy Madmen of Tibet’
A crucial quote from ‘The Holy Madmen of Tibet’: ‘The process that has led to this application of the idea of “holy madness” is as follows: from at least the tenth century to the present there has been a small subset of religious practitioners in Tibet who through their eccentric behavior, writings, and self-proclamations, have…
Picture of pedocriminal inside a so called Buddhist Temple in Nyima-Dzong aka Château de Soleil
Going to Château de Soleils aka Nyima-Dzong, entering the Buddhist Temple and realize that the picture of Robert Spatz alias Lama Kunzang is still in the alter, like if all the trial and the dozen sexual abuses never took place. #shame #denial #dangerouscult
In the Spatz-OKC community the first handful of us who spoke up in 1997 were ignored by the rest for almost 20 years
In the Spatz-OKC cult/community the first handful of us who spoke up were ignored by the rest for almost 20 years while the justice system slowly turned its wheels, and even accused of demonic possession and all sorts of nonsense. It was painful, but I believe that most of these people were taken in by…
