"One of the best-known figures in Tibetan Buddhism has been accused of rape, sexual assault, beatings, and psychological abuse in an extraordinary new insider account.
Sogyal
Rinpoche—the founder of a leading Buddhist organization—is accused by
two women of “rape” and “non-consensual” sex in a book that will be
published Thursday.
Mimi Durand said she had tried to block out the emotional torment
before accepting what had happened to her. “I realized I’d been raped,”
she told the book’s authors.
A second woman alleged that Sogyal
had forced her into non-consensual sex at a building belonging to
Rigpa—Sogyal’s Buddhist organization—in northwest London.
A third woman
gives a shocking account in the book of the way she says the lama took
advantage of her when she went to him looking for help in overcoming the
grief of losing her father.
A fourth, Oane Bijlsma, a Dutch woman who was once part of Sogyal’s inner circle, claimed: “It’s a BDSM cult minus a safe word.”
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The FACT Team
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