Articles, Press and resources to better understand the OKC-Spatz judicial case from 1997 to 2021
Sect OKC: a procedural flaw
It’s general relaxation. The three magistrates censure the first judge, the King’s prosecutor and a legal expert. The Court of Appeal of Brussels is in a state of shock! In first instance, the court had condemned most of the leaders of the OKC sect (Ogyen Kunzang Choling) and, in particular, the guru Robert Spatz -…
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…
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
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.…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
HumKara Dzong – Mosteiro de Mú – Malhão
Drone view of the place a few years after 23 pre-teen & young adults were sent to this place by Robert Spatz in 1993. What enfolded during 3 years there, from 1993 to 1996-97 is a long story to tell and a complex one to remember but we’ll do our best to compile experiences on our…
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…
Guru and Student in the Vajrayana by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
OKCinfo does not endorse, support or agree with this article, it is the sole opinion of DJKR, we are rather ignoring the Vajrayana word-salad & instead reproduce this text here so that everyone can make his own opinion on how so-called Buddhist “masters” manage their crisis communication by protecting the abuser and blaming the victims.…
Update: Thanks to all the donations, offline & online, they really help us reach our crowdfunding goal ! #meetoo #okcinfo
Even though the “Thunderclap” generated some more awareness about our case, we still have to reach a minimal of 5K in our crowdfunding to be able to pay just the first part of our legal defence. offline donations will be added to the overall total of donations on https://www.gofundme.com/okcinfo, right now we’re just above 4K with the…
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…
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
Sexual assaults and violent rages… Inside the dark world of #Buddhist teacher #Sogyal Lakar
“Once you enter into the hermetic world of Tibetan Buddhism, you somehow burn your bridges to Western rationality.” Tibetan culture is such that it will never criticise another lama, especially one within your own group Stephen Batchelor Source
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…
#MeTooGuru: Dalai Lama meets alleged victims of abuse by Buddhist gurus | Inquirer News
Four people who say they suffered sexual, physical or psychological abuse at the hands of Tibetan Buddhist teachers have handed to the Dalai Lama 12 victims’ written accounts of mistreatment and appealed to him to tackle the problem. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1032388/metooguru-dalai-lama-meets-alleged-victims-of-abuse-by-buddhist-gurus
Abuse is abuse: we live in the world of conventional reality | Yarlung Warrior #opinion #vajrayana #spatz #sogyal
by Rigden Namgyal : I find it very troubling to realize the general quietism about and surrounding the issue of Sogyal Rinpoche and the responses to it, especially among Tibetan netizens and the community as a whole. This is major news in the international Buddhist community yet our media outlets (Phayul, Radio Free Asia or…
How widespread is abuse in #Buddhism ?
Audio : Rob Hogendoorn is a Dutch investigative journalist who’s spent years looking into this. How widespread is abuse in #Buddhism https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/p06l4v3f
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“The problem is that human beings only see the bad things somewhere else as where they are.” – unknown
Latest Updates about the court case
Latest update : we are in the process of appealing the verdict of 2018 appeal case (launched by the predator Spatz and his OKC cult) from the previous 2016 verdict. https://www.facebook.com/events/260625147965259/ it’s going to happen in early march 2019. stay tuned, we are not done yet.
Droit de réponse à @BelgaNewsAgency et @lavenir_net #okcproces
Suite à la publication de cette brève Belga : et suite à la publication de cet article dans le journal l’Avenir qui reprend la même fausse information. OKCinfo tient à corriger un élément essentiel à cet brève Belga : En effet, certaines parties civiles avaient raconté, dès l’entame du procès en janvier 2016, avoir subi des maltraitances…
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,…
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…
#Buddhism Calling Out the Guru from Afar: Dzongsar Khyentse’s ‘Sex Contract’ and the Subsequent Backlash from the Buddhist Community
“We must, as a global Buddhist sangha, make an unwavering stance against abuse.” https://www.erikjampa.com/single-post/2017/11/11/Calling-Out-the-Guru-from-Afar-On-Dzongsar-Khyentses-Sex-Contract-and-Subsequent-Backlash-from-the-Buddhist-Community
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…
Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor
I am troubled by the premise that the members of OKC should be protected because they have “nothing to do” with the wrongs perpetrated by Spatz. This is a fiction that lives on in part because, contrary to accusations, the OKC children are absurdly compassionate and forgiving. Most of the OKC disciples were complicit in…
Presse : OKC Pas « d’organisation criminelle » Jugement en Septembre 2018 ! #secte #toxique #PN
Pas « d’organisation criminelle » Lors de son réquisitoire, l’avocat général Jean-François Godbille a renoncé à la prévention « d’organisation criminelle », jusqu’alors considérée comme la principale piste de l’accusation dans le procès de la secte bouddhiste OKC. Le magistrat s’en est expliqué pour éviter un écueil judiciaire. En effet, … Lors de son réquisitoire,…
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,…
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