Articles, Press and resources to better understand the OKC-Spatz judicial case from 1997 to 2021
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…
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/
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…
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…
The 36 victims of the OKC sect left on the cold
This is once again an important case of social and financial criminal law that did not hold up in the Brussels Court of Appeal. The Ogyen Kunzang Choling Buddhist community, which had been listed as a sect, was being prosecuted for numerous offences ranging from forgery, extortion and money laundering to child hostage-taking and sexual…
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…
40 Years of abuse in the Name of #Dharma : the story of @OgyenKun Ogyen Kunzang Choling #Buddhism
Recently and while we wait for the appeal to take place (2 years) we noticed that #OKC members travelled to Asia to meet with Rabjam Rimpoché (the so-called Tibetan head of OKC since RS “retired” a vain illusion to try to salvage a so-called Buddhist center that should be dismantled. We noticed that other “Tibetan…
Marteling, gijzeling, misbruik, fraude, maar GOEROE GAAT VRIJUIT #metoo #metooguru
Na ruim 20 jaar valt het doek over het proces tegen Brusselaar Robert Spatz (73), de goeroe van de sekte OKC. De rechtbank veroordeelde hem aanvankelijk voor fraude en de gijzeling van tientallen kinderen, die sekteleden verplicht moesten afstaan. Maar het hof van beroep wees op procedure- en onderzoeksfouten en sprak Spatz gisteren vrij. De…
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…
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
Buddhism, the law of silence / the Unspeakable Truth
Sexual abuse, mental manipulation and embezzlement: Tibetan Buddhism is shaken by serious scandals. An in-depth account that lifts the veil on the unspiritual underbelly of a religion revered in Europe. His name is Ricardo Mendes and, as a young man, he lived through hell in a Buddhist community in Castellane, far from the ideal of…
Sogyal Rinpoche Has Resigned from #Rigpa #Buddhism
It’s interesting to see how the word allegations is being used all across the world when it’s about Men sexual abuse, usually rich, privileged, powerful men using their positions to try at all cost to appear innocent, “using the justice system” or a third-party independent body to look into these “allegations” while maintaining a narrative…
Letters to Rabjam Rinpoche – Shechen Monastery
Letters sent to Rabjam Rinpoche when he came to Europe and visited OKC (while in trial) in 2017
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…
@DalaiLama admitiu ter conhecimento de casos de abusos de mestres #budistas #metooguru
Commentário nosso : O que foi feito em 25 anos alem de “name & shame” ? Vitimas de OKC foram para Justicia mas alem disto demasiadas vezes, como na Igreja catolica, a religião organizada trata destes assuntos na sombra e vez de deixar a Justiça fazer o seu trabalho : pois na Europa abusos sexuais…
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…
What Went Wrong with Tibetan Sexual Abuse ? #Buddhism
https://tricycle.org/magazine/what-went-wrong-tibetan-sex-abuse/
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…
There is no side to pick when the drift is about sexual abuses of your own students/adepts
“When any type of abuse, sexual or spiritual, requires a cost-benefit analysis, you have failed.” #RIGPA #OKCSpatz #Shambhala
New lawsuit against the OKC guru
The Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a new notice for money laundering against Robert Spatz, the guru of the Buddhist sect OKC, it was reported to several lawyers during the trial which ended on Tuesday on a total inadmissibility of the proceedings. According to Quentin Wauters, Robert Spatz’s lawyer, his client, who has lived…
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
Verdict of the Appeal Trial OKC-Spatz 2018 #metoo #metooguru #sexualabuses #balancetonporc
After 18 years of instructions, procedures and attempts to dilute (successfully) the course of the trial in the case of OKC and Robert Spatz, here is that the axe has fallen: inadmissibility of prosecution. The whole trial has therefore fallen apart: The Brussels Court of Appeal ruled that, following errors committed by a judicial expert,…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
