{"id":595,"date":"2017-11-16T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/okcinfo.armada.digital\/?p=595"},"modified":"2020-05-09T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T11:54:08","slug":"a-storm-is-coming-tibetan-buddhism-in-the-west-sexabuse-teacherpredator-metoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/okcinfo.chardonsbleus.org\/en\/2017\/external\/a-storm-is-coming-tibetan-buddhism-in-the-west-sexabuse-teacherpredator-metoo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Storm is Coming: Tibetan #Buddhism in the West #SexAbuse #TeacherPredator #Metoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e-content\">\n<blockquote><p>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 \u2018true reality\u2019. He quoted Tibetan teachers with whom he had supposedly studied in India. And various Tibetan teachers made him seem legitimate by visiting the OKC over the years, for example the Dalai Lama in 1990. By that time, many instances of sexual abuse had apparently already occurred.<br \/>\nRead more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2017\/11\/a-storm-is-coming-tibetan-buddhism-in-the-west.html#klPvKt5bBZAMOqC5.99\">http:\/\/<wbr \/>www.patheos.com\/<wbr \/>blogs\/<wbr \/>americanbuddhist\/<wbr \/>2017\/<wbr \/>11\/<wbr \/>a-storm-is-coming-tibetan-buddhism-in-the-west&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buddhist scholar Bernard Faure recounts several of the scandals of Western Buddhism in his book on Buddhist sexuality, The Red Thread, but then warns us, \u201cThe problem is by no means limited to Western interpretations of Mah\u0101y\u0101na: it is also found in Asian forms of Mah\u0101y\u0101na and Therav\u0101da\u2026 [F]ar from being mere accidents due to individual personalities, [the scandals] may also be seen as structural problems, having deeper social, psychological, and cultural roots. These behaviors found some doctrinal justification in the teachings of Mah\u0101y\u0101na or Great Vehicle\u2014 particularly in its most radical versions,Vajray\u0101na and Chan\/Zen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2018true reality\u2019. He quoted Tibetan teachers with whom he had supposedly studied in India. 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