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This is where I grew up.

In the heart of the Gorge du Verdon, in the south of France.

In the heart of a Tibetan Buddhist community, in the Kassé, we were about 60 children.

I was 5 years old when my parents abandoned me here in this place called Château de Soleil.

My childhood was written by prayers and prostrations.

I haven't seen my mother for many years. I suffered from a stroke, food deprivation, cold.

Some young girls I grew up with suffered worse than that.

I was taught the rituals they had been taught to use for rapes.

All this is due to a religion that is in the west above all the sub-sons.

The Buddhism.

This is 14 Dalai Lama. It received the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is not right. Teachers should not have sex with students.

I am Ricardo.

I am now 40 years old. It's been 6 years since I was born to condemn our old master.

Lama Kuzang, Robert Spatz in the civil.

Robert Spatz is Belgian. He is one of the first Westerners to have established a Buddhist community in Europe.

He is a teacher recognized by the Tibetan Buddhism.

A Lama.

Let's go.

Today I am the spokesperson of 23 civil parties in the process that is against Lama Kuzang.

He lives in the south of Spain. He did not move.

He is for the exploitation of workers, child abuse.

I am the spokesperson of 23 civil parties in the process that is against Lama Kuzang.

I am the spokesperson of 23 civil parties in the process that is against Lama Kuzang.

I am the spokesperson of 23 civil parties in the process that is against Lama Kuzang.

If we are surrounded by people who are at risk and expose ourselves to our stories, we are exposed to the truth.

You travel with your parents in the south of France. You are with your parents.

At one point, your parents leave.

I do not even remember. I think I have such a big shock.

I was 4 or 5 years old.

There was a big moment in my life when I had a big black hole. It was a huge shock for me.

Were you at that time subjected to punishments? Were there any food restrictions?

I was punished a lot for food. If I was a passenger, I could not eat. If I had not eaten, I could not eat.

You were punished for food restrictions. Were there any other punishments?

I received baffs. I saw violent baffs in stairs where children were found fighting against the wall.

I remember many violent images.

How did you react to this violent fear?

You also benefited from teaching with Mr. Spatz.

Yes.

Head to head.

Could you explain the way you experienced these teachings?

He called me for private meetings when I was little. I met him in his room.

He told me that I had to go back to his apartment.

In the evening, in all discreetness, to wake up people's subconscious or the jealousy of people,

he was presenting it to me. I had to go back to his room and wait for him.

I went back to my room with my duvet because I was going to sleep there for a few nights.

I went back to his room. Spatz came later in the evening.

He sat down and he made prayers with me.

He started talking about spiritual energy and touched my shoulders,

saying that there were energies that crossed my body and I could feel them.

He said that my clothes had to be removed and blocked the energies.

I remember sleeping in the tower.

He didn't come where he came from. I remember waking up because he was touching me.

He said to me to lie on the ground and he had a kind of bomb.

He started to put a bomb on the breasts.

He explained to me that there were a lot of energies in the sexual and blood parts.

It was a large area of energy.

He started to stimulate it to transfer energy.

Spatz was awake. He understood everything.

He knew what we were thinking and what we were living. He knew our past lives, our good karma and our bad karma.

He was very generous because he could live in Nirvana but he chose to live on Earth to help us.

He lived on this horrible earth where everyone was suffering. He did that for us.

He told us to do things that seemed unfair, weird, unfeeling or not.

But we must follow the letter because that's how we will reach the end.

If I hear you well, you must follow what the lama says.

You must obey his word.

If I was raped in this life, it's probably because in one of my past lives,

I was raped by a woman. My punishment is to be raped by a woman who is 30 years old.

I burned my death with karma. I'm a little closer to the truth.

So that's what you were taught?

Yes, I wrote what was taught to us.

This was the teaching of Mr Spatz.

I was 22 years old.

I had studied medicine but I didn't like it.

I was looking for meaning. That's how I left for India for a year.

I was looking for a meaning in my life and to be taught about meditation, yoga, and spiritual practice.

And back to India, that's where I met Robert Spatz, the Makhunzang and the Tibetan tradition.

The essence of the teaching was the importance of the line.

The line was interrupted by the Buddha, the Guru, the Rinpoche and the great masters

who had given him the responsibility to create this school.

It was a first antenna in Europe. We were very proud.

A antenna directly linked to the Tibetan monastery.

And so, somewhere, everyone knew it was under the responsibility and protection of this line.

In my eyes, there was the guarantee of authenticity of a teaching.

And so it really motivated me to apply for it in this school.

My medical office was geographically just next to the center.

As a doctor, I was interviewed a few times because I thought that food was quite efficient.

So I was interviewed about food and a minimum of hygiene.

And when the education itself was there, there was the mistreatment, but it was completely ignorant.

Finally, I remember seeing all the great masters of Buddhism challenge me near Robert Spatz.

Even Dala Elama made him visit.

However, during my research, I fell on images that would shock me.

At the beginning of the 1990s, while we were living in Calvert with Robert Spatz,

a meeting was organized between Dala Elama and the Western masters.

For hours, they spoke of sexual abuse and financial abuse in Buddhist communities.

Robert Spatz was therefore not a isolated case.

I can't remember the exact numbers, but I think there was something like 25 or 30

Western Buddhist teachers from different traditions.

We met with the Dala Elama, I think, about seven or eight times over three days.

He was very generous with his time.

The conference began with the Dala Elama receiving letters from unhappy women,

mainly who complained to him as the head of the church that they had been mistreated by their Tibetan teachers.

There were teachers in the United States, in Europe, who were actually concerned about the fact that

there were several scandals, sexual, ethical, that started to rise and that we wanted to do something.

I have received many letters from women, many women, saying,

please, what can be done? Do something.

I also received some letter about sexual abuse and ethical issues.

We must stop this kind of situation.

So then how to stop that, that question, we have to discuss.

We just said that this is not right. Teachers should not have sex with students.

But if your holiness could join in on that kind of statement, it would give enormous power to it.

It would help enormously.

I'm ready.

Whether or not other people are going to listen to the question.

I can shout.

The teachers won't listen, maybe. The teachers who are having sex and drinking, they may not listen.

But the students, they'll listen. They'll listen to you.

That will help.

Tremendously.

Then people can say no. If they know that it's wrong in your eyes, then people feel free to say no.

Because you are giving a standard which people trust in.

All right.

I mean...

Towards the end of this meeting, the suggestion was that we write an open letter

in which we would present what we had reflected upon and what we had decided

and hopefully arrive at some kind of resolution.

From March 16th to 19th, 1993, a meeting was held at Dharamsala

between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a group of 20 Western Dharma teachers.

I was charged with writing up of the text of this letter.

I read this paper back to His Holiness.

In recent years, several Asian and Western teachers have been involved in scandals concerning sexual misconduct with their students.

Students should be warned against the dangers of falling prey to charisma, exalted titles, exoticism.

One better way of doing this is instead of citing these points as if there were some sort of summations of His Holiness's responses,

rather we could present them as some sort of consensus.

Actually, reality is also like that.

Everyone was participated.

So everybody takes...

Yes.

Let's put it on here.

And say, well, maybe we should say this, maybe we should say that.

Other voices also amongst the group suggested changes and so forth.

And we arrived after a couple of hours at a text that we were all happy to put our names to.

Thank you very much.

And then the Dalai Lama said, first of all, we have to pass this letter through his private office.

And then nothing happened for weeks.

There was no response. There was nothing.

And eventually it did come back to me and the others.

And the only thing that had changed was the Dalai Lama's name had been removed as a signatory.

In my childhood, the Dalai Lama was the incarnation of the benevolence.

Why did he do nothing?

I realized that he was not only a spiritual leader, but also a political leader.

He was also a spiritual leader, maybe elsewhere.

In 1959, Tibetans came to defeat the Dalai Lama in their revolt against the Pekins.

10,000 deaths, the failure of hope and the long night of exile in a small village in the Indus,

for the governor of the revolt, the 14th Dalai Lama.

My name is Tendin Gitchi.

I served in the office of solanice for over 40-something years.

I came out of Tibet when I was about 6 years old.

In 1959, the solanice of the Dalai Lama came into India,

along with thousands of Tibetans.

Then, with the Dalai Lama, there was this whole government setup continued from Tibet.

I remember in the early 60s, it was the time when the solanice made appeals to world leaders

for the issue of Tibet to be discussed in the United Nations.

We had all these letters to be typed for the heads of these countries.

I remember typing many.

Because we didn't have computers, it was terrible.

One mistake, take out the whole thing and type.

Nowadays, you don't have to do that.

Anyway, in those days, it was actually a very exciting moment.

It must be seen that the Dalai Lama is a political and religious man.

There is always a political dimension, especially at the beginning.

Because they arrive from Tibet, they are exiled, they are hunted,

they are really hunted to hunt.

Many are dead.

So they arrive in India, they have to find their place.

They have to have allies.

Right from the early times, when the situations were very difficult among the Tibetans in exile,

I think any kind of help from outside was very welcome.

They were in a critical situation.

They needed sympathizers. If they are going to get the world powers to put pressure on the Chinese

to let them go back to Tibet, they needed supporters from western countries.

This area and basically where the Tibetans were settled when they came in the early 60s,

to Dharamsala.

There were lots of these kind of buildings.

I'm Jeremy Russell.

I've lived in Dharamsala for quite a long time.

I work for the office of his own Stada Dalai Lama.

I prepare written documents in English.

A spark to interest amongst my generation in India was the Beatles.

George Harrison brought the Beatles to India and it, as I say, it provided a spark.

It was an attraction.

I was able to come to India twice over land.

I didn't fly at all.

I set out from London and hitchhiked to Dover and took the ferry to Ostend.

And from Salzburg, I was lucky to get a ride with a guy in a sports car all the way to Istanbul.

It was quick but sports cars hard. It's not that comfortable.

It was an adventure.

Westerners are very inquisitive.

They want to go, they want to explore, they want to find things.

For example, in Dharamsala, it's very interesting.

In the initial stage, it was mostly the hippies who were not interested in Buddhism,

but just to go to new places and go after hashes and LSD or whatever, things like that.

But then some of them have also an inquisitive mind.

So then gradually less and less hippie and more and more foreigners who really wanted to explore

and find out Tibetan culture and Tibetan position.

I am the director of this institute called Library of Tibetan Works and Archives,

which is the center for Tibetan studies.

So here we run classes, Tibetan language classes, Buddhist classes, translator's training,

and science program, many activities.

The original idea of establishing this institute is preservation, promotion, and dissemination of Tibetan culture.

There were no travel guides in those days.

There was a little bit of travellers information passed on in loose sheets.

And I saw a note that there were classes, meditation classes, and lectures on Buddhism

at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala.

I thought, this is something I'd like to do.

I didn't know anything about Tibetans at that point.

I didn't know anything about Buddhism, but somehow that caught my eye.

It was people who were in rupture in the face of their original culture.

They wanted counter-models and they were also very interested in the state of conscious change.

So Buddhist meditation allowed them to have access to these modified state of consciousness

where they could have other perceptions of reality.

So the goal was to change the perception they had of the world to change the world.

The search for truth, wisdom, knowledge, and myself.

I found out that we don't think about ourselves in the West at all.

Or about ourselves, and we are not clear at all.

We are set out. We want cars, power, money, television.

We want to travel, we want to go out.

And we never care about what happens to us.

We are not the best candidates for that sort of job.

But we at least were represented that world.

We were a channel into the wider world that they now found themselves in.

For many who maybe even just studied or had contact with Tibetans for a year or two only, not too long,

it was enough for them to have some kind of a close feeling for the Tibetans.

And once they left Dharamsala, all involved with either some Dharma center or some Tibet support group.

He took this training to discover Buddhism.

Ceremonies like these one can easily multiplied to young people who come in from it's religion.

Each caste 뭐y to find himself to forty kilometers in Christ hall in the dead of night.

It is like Tibet being expelled from Tibet physically,

had succeeded thanks to the Dalai Lama's commitment,

which is very strong from that point of view,

to create what I call a kind of virtual Tibet,

a territorialized Tibet,

which is a very important part of the world.

It is a very important part of the world.

It is a very important part of the world.

It is a very important part of the world.

It is a very important part of the world.

I think I call it a kind of virtual Tibet,

a territorialized Tibet,

in which the monasteries,

Tibetan Buddhist centers on the whole of the world

are a kind of prefectures,

like prefectures of a virtual Tibet,

of a country which would be on the whole of the world.

Sure.

And the Dosselkuh realized that he could link the political dimension, the spiritual dimension,

and the cultural dimension, that is to say, save Tibetan culture thanks to the spiritual desire of the Westerners,

and also use the spiritual desire of the Westerners to make political pressure on the channel.

In 1929, with the gold medal and the diploma.

When the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize, that certainly catapulted him to international celebrity.

When this award happened, it made it easier for governments and other organizations to say that we are inviting a solaness because she is a Nobel Laureate.

In the Buddhist countries, the Tibetan branch is minority, and yet it is far from the best export in our country.

This success is mainly due to the Dalai Lama, who in a few years has succeeded in this high-level and high-ranking.

Everyone wants his photo with the Tibetan boss, Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac, Prince Charles, and stars like actor Richard Jure.

And while the cause of Tibet receives a global support, the abuse cases multiply.

In fact, everywhere in the world, the masters put in cause prospers, without control or sanction.

And some even show empires, like Soquel Rinpoche, a Tibetan exiled in Europe, long considered one of the most influential masters of Tibetan Buddhism.

I'm one of the few journalists who has focused exclusively on abuse by Buddhists for a long time.

So people approach me constantly, every two or three weeks, someone approaches me about some abuse somewhere in the world.

Sometimes those people have been abused themselves, sometimes they have been witnesses to abuse, and they try to involve me in their case.

I'm aware that many people have a very rosy image of Buddhism, so they expect Buddhism to be clean of all the dirt that you'll find elsewhere.

And of course, to find so many abuse cases will come as a surprise to them, and they'll be perhaps disillusioned by defining that Buddhists are regular people and behave in the same way as other religious people.

So it has been a process for people to come to terms with the fact that there's so much abuse, and I think that's still ongoing.

At the time I was approached by two women who actually were courageous enough to stand in front of the venue where he was speaking and asking people to think about the abuses that were happening.

And these two women reached out to me because they hoped I would publish the story of their protest, which I did.

Sogiel Rinpoche is one of the biggest abusers in Buddhism. Over the years I think Sogiel made hundreds of victims just by, you know, abusing them physically and sexually.

And I'm not even including people who were worked until they dropped for nothing.

This has been going on since the mid-1970s until the late 2010s, so that's a long period of time.

This Fidel belongs to a Buddhist school of Tibetan tradition. He's a member of an international association called Rikpa, founded by Sogiel Rinpoche, born and trained in Tibet, but also in Cambridge.

I've lived in the West for many years now. I've been in the West for several years, and so I'm starting to know the conditions of life here. And what I teach is not Tibetan Buddhism, but I try to teach the wisdom of Buddha's teaching.

And I try to help people. I don't say I did it, but at least I try.

I met him in Paris. I was at a conference in the 60s and 80s, and he was called Sogiel Rinpoche. He spoke English very well, very dynamic and very percussive.

He also had materialism, a little bit of the Western society's failure in his search for happiness, and a spiritual vision of existence, but very applied, very concrete, very connected to the modern world.

And that was really extraordinary at the time. I found that I spoke English, and he offered me to become a translator, interpreter, so I was introduced to Sogiel Rinpoche and others, by the way, others in the hand too.

And then, at the age of the Finnish-Greeks, I became President of the Rikpa France Association. I was born in 1985, there was already a good group, there were already maybe a hundred people around, so there were already a number of structures.

And for me, it was very direct, that is to say, it was not at all ceremonial, people, little by little, and he started to acquire one by the next.

Sogiel at some point wrote a book, or at least had a book written for him, and the Dalai Lama wrote a foreword to that book, so the book became a bestseller.

And those tiny organizations grew bigger and bigger. So this is how a small Tibetan guy builds an empire all over the world.

All those who are interested in spirituality know the Tibetan book of the life and death. Like many people, I was also fascinated by the text and intrigued by its author.

At the time of the Tibetan book of the life and death, it had a very, very great success in the Anglo-Saxon world, so in 1992 and a year after, in the French language, and German, other languages. And there, there began to be hundreds of people who arrived in the centers.

There were, let's say, tens of countries where there were really important centers, including the United States, many Western countries, Australia, India, and then there were also antennas in some other countries.

Sogiel at a small town was an excellent entrepreneur. Really excellent. It's a little like the Tibetan Buddhism start-up.

The Rabbling is one of the main European centers to transmit Tibetan Buddhism. This retreat center was founded in 1992 by Sogiel Rinpoche, author of the Tibetan book of life and death.

Okay, that person hurt you. It's like one moment, you know. But what you do, you keep it for many years. So why not just forgive?

Even though that may seem like a very foolish thing to do, how could I forgive? But if you really forgive, really forgive. Actually, you're victorious.

The Rabbling is beautifully situated. It's very impressive, the temple, the surroundings, the nature there is really beautiful, the hills. Welcome to the family. That was the general feeling.

There were different types of people getting different types of treatments during retreats. The normal students in retreats were told that the right way of living is a life where you renunciate material goods.

And then there was the life of the inner circle and the Lamas and the VIPs, which was one of luxury, good food. So there was a big discrepancy between the students who were told to live in a certain way. And the luxury I saw on the other side.

Men and women in the inner circle had a task that was taking care of Sogiel. And it was clear that the most beautiful girls were with him almost day and night.

Yet I accepted that they were there without asking myself the question if they had, for instance, other relationships with him. These girls were of course the Dakini's.

The Dakini have no right to miss a movement, a need. It's 24 hours on 24, on absolutely every gesture they make during the day, they must be accompanied.

We sleep at the foot of his bed for a few hours. The first few months I had to sleep two hours a night.

He needed to go to the toilet, he needed to eat, he needed to wash his back, he needed to wash his face, he needed to wash his face. He was assisted in all this. I think there was no one who was doing it independently.

A walk was a movement that was like climbing the Everest. You had to fold a certain number of mouchois in a very exact way and have them on you.

You had to have a bag with a glass of water, a glass of water, a bottle of water, a change of clothes, a change of sleep and walk very slowly with him until the destination.

Once he arrived he was in total exhaustion because everything he asked for was very angry and impatient.

There were a lot of sexist jokes from him on stage. The women were hoovering around him. The fact that the beautiful women were picked out, I saw it happening for attention in the crowd from him.

Slowly but surely I understood that the beautiful women around Sogiel were having sexual relationships with him.

It's difficult to use the term rape because it automatically puts me in a position of victim who is heavy to carry.

But yes, rape is a big old man with authority who closes the door and puts himself in a position of victim who is threatening.

Sogiel clearly said on the edge of his bed that if I talked about it to him tonight, even with another challenge,

I would break the holy bond of loyalty and loyalty to his master and that would result in the worst karma consequences on me and my loved ones.

When Sogiel asked his disciples, especially his women, to become his concubines, to have sexual relationships with him,

it's not necessary to imagine that it's a derivative compared to Buddhism. These things exist in the Tibetan-Tantric Buddhism, the Hindu origin.

There is also the notion of the Zabil means, the upaya, which according to which a master, to convert to Buddhism someone, can use all means possible, including violence, the lie.

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What I heard was about rumors before at Sogiel's show И С voliet about the models,

that Selama had some kind of women who were with him all the time

and I had read some things about what was going on.

But then I had no idea about you, your experience, your life.

After the first incident with Sjogel, I was extremely shocked.

And I was very bad, I didn't know what was happening to me

and how I was supposed to take him.

And of course I had written that I had an absolute interdiction

to discuss with anyone tonight.

And during a Sjogel teaching,

I cross Digger Control in the course, Aléra Bling,

who is a Tibetan master, also in this tendency

to be very open towards the West,

who master English,

who have a bit of a gurgle,

the westernized modern hand.

I ask him if I can ask him a question

and by crying I ask him what it means to be a consort.

A partner.

And there is a moment of silence,

I think he understood very well why I was crying.

And he simply answered,

it's a very, very big chance

when you can have this relationship with a master.

So once again, it was a master who saw,

who was witness to a suffering

and who completely defused.

It really corresponds to what I had read

about what happened in the Tung Pa and the Sjogel.

I had always wanted to be a nun since I was a little girl.

But I didn't really believe in Christianity,

so I couldn't see how I was going to be a nun,

but I always knew I was going to be.

Then I realized that the Buddha Dharma

was the most important thing in all the world.

In Buddhism you have to see the object of your devotion

as completely pure.

But the problem comes that it also puts all the power

in the hands of the guru

and totally disempowers the student

and therefore it is open to corruption.

If the guru is not perfect,

then giving them everything is very dangerous.

And this unfortunately is what we see,

that they misuse that devotion, they misuse that power.

The Lama may be very charismatic

and one problem is that people mistake charisma

for spiritual qualities.

In exile, there was an announcement.

It is important to understand that the Sjogel

was extremely powerful in this international network.

It was a very powerful network of Buddhist centers in the West.

When conferences were organized around the Dala-i-Lama

where all Tibetan masters were invited,

Sjogel always had a place of honor.

And backstage, they were all witnesses

of the behavior of Sjogel,

accompanied by a certain number of young girls.

There were people in higher places

who absolutely knew what was going on

and not only ignored it, but also found reasons

within what they were told was Buddhism,

to reason it away for themselves.

Sjogel Rinpoche is a problem for the entire Buddhist community

since the meeting of the masters with the Dala-i-Lama in 1993.

Many letters from women, many women,

saying, please, what can be done, do something.

What troubled me more was that in the ensuing years,

he seemed, he appeared in public with many of the,

or at least some of the Lama's who he had criticized.

And thereby gave them legitimation.

For many of us, we felt was somewhat of a betrayal.

He would appear in public at the opening

of Sjogel Rinpoche's big center in France,

and yet knew perfectly well what was going on

behind the scenes with, between Sjogel and some of his women students.

Professor, if I see this,

I think it's a little bit of a shame

that he's not a woman student.

Professor, if I see it in English,

they're all political leaders, artists, great actresses,

and many, also a friend of yours, no, he's there.

Many of them, no, no.

His Holiness had said back at that meeting

that if we told him who the Lama's were and were specific,

he would make sure he did not visit those places.

He still visited there.

And so we had old journalists

who were doing the devil's advocate,

who were interviewing us in a somewhat aggressive way.

And we were supposed to find a way to answer.

The strategy was very simple.

It was Sjogel Rinpoche and the other Lama

are recognized by the Dalai Lama.

And above all, it was not to answer the question,

not to enter the party of Savas.

How did it happen, or how, who is right, who is right,

but to repeat, to say a message,

trying to prove that the Tibetan church was irreproachable

and that it was millennial, it was a line of trust.

So that was the strategy.

But there is not only the Dalai Lama who is called a caucion.

In our process against the Guru Robert Spatz,

I discovered that all the representatives of the Tibetan Buddhism

were used as a trigger for tantricity.

So, Mr. President, I have a number of photos to present.

I will give you the first photo.

You can comment on these photos and possibly put them in the time.

It's the Dalai Lama visiting Bruxelles at that moment.

And there, Madam, he expresses himself in what language?

In English, I think.

In English, yes.

Who translated the Dalai Lama's proposals?

It's Mr. Spatz.

I think he's just next to you.

Yes, he is.

Okay, indeed.

He translated all the proposals?

Yes.

I was sitting in front of him.

Where are we now?

It's in the nice place in Bruxelles.

So, it's just that.

It's in Mathurica.

Mr. Spatz, I need to go.

I don't know if it's possible.

I don't know.

It's a month with Mr. Spatz.

I don't know his name.

So, you're coming from the monastery of this channel?

Yes, I'm from the monastery of this channel.

Okay, yes.

Every time, manifestly, Mr. Spatz is surrounded by people who are recognized in the Buddhist

region.

These are masters who are generally recognized.

Oh, yes.

They don't put their authority on purpose.

No, absolutely not.

Okay.

And there, you have, indeed, the demonstration simply of what we are affirming is that the

statues me tere, have being overshadowed and able to convey the inspired free energy.

But if thereperson appears to be in a state of

or by the masters of the quality of Mr. Spatz's teaching.

In any case, no part of Mathieu Ricard.

Mathieu Ricard is the French interpreter of the Dalai Lama,

one of the most listened Buddhist voices in the world.

We have written to him several times.

It's been years since we've been seeking support in the matter that we're opposed to Robert Spatz.

Without success.

However, no one in the Buddhist world could ignore the gravity of accusations.

They have made me public on the French and Belgian television.

In 1997, the monastery of Château de Soleil, where I grew up, was purchased by the gendarmes, as well as the other centers of the Ocaste.

After several complaints in justice, Robert Spatz was arrested for pre-trial.

For years, the accusations remained Wall Time and had a back-to-back hatred to them.

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vo diamonds.

So something good happened and thanks to these vases, I thought it was last

7 days later,

with 42 pages, I think, of the history of the right-wing procurer.

So tomorrow, Mathieu Ricard, in a somewhat chaotic way,

came to personally put the file back,

by saying, imagine that we are with these documents on us.

And so Mathieu put the file back, but he couldn't say he didn't receive it.

He put it back the next day after he read it all night.

So he knew the situation of the children.

He knew there were unclear things.

He knew it.

I found something else that explains the refusal of the Tibetan authorities to help us.

Financial interests.

Robert Spatt, our former guru,

invested at least 100,000 dollars in one of the most important Buddhist monasteries in the world.

And not any of them.

The monastery of Sechen, in Kathmandu.

This is where Mathieu Ricard and the heritages of the masters of Robert Spatt live.

Be careful of O.K.C.

Gentlemen, we thank you very much for the help you have brought us to this day,

for the construction of the philosophical study school,

in the monastery of Sechen, in Kathmandu.

In order for the work to continue,

we would be very grateful to you for allowing us to achieve the next branch of your donation,

the next account.

Has this quality of youth well done?

Protect Robert Spatt for all these years.

The Tibetan authorities are looking for sponsors all the time.

And you know, it's basically a beggar's economy.

Their refugees, they have no real sources of income other than their religion.

So there's a financial co-dependency between the exiles in India

and the wealthy Tibetan lamas in the West.

All we could earn was to offer it to the masters who are more valuable than anything else

and are no longer precious to us than to them.

People paid to go to conferences and retreats.

We were able to be happy about the value of the money in the box,

as much as we could, and we would always get it back.

In addition, there were ceremonies where we would make gifts,

in particular, in the sogyal, we could offer the jewels we wanted.

In 2014, during the great retreat of the former students,

in May of all countries, we were 600 for a month.

He told us, I'll give you very secret teachings,

but you have to make great offerings, that's tradition.

So everyone really goes out on their doorstep and is ready to offer a substantial offering.

He said, I'll give it to you as a secret.

I also organized fund raising,

in the L'Avante aux Enchères, in London,

where a piece of toast, which was collected in the L'Helidhi's trash bin,

was sold to the Enchères.

With this success, it was a lot of fun.

I thought, let's do the same thing with this sogyal.

He has a lot of cochoneries, which he could really get rid of.

I had a bit of the responsibility of the management too.

And it was a bit of a success, because everyone wanted to have a piece of sogyal.

So we sold some truets, I don't know, there were glasses, socks,

but everything was really a waste of sogyal.

I took some time investigating Rickbast finances,

and I started archiving all the financial documents I could find.

And I retrieved financial documents of 14 RIGPA organizations worldwide,

in a period between 2012 and 2019.

So I put the numbers together,

and those 14 organizations of RIGPA collected some 58 million euros altogether.

I was a monk, I carried like 60,000 euros and gold into Delhi.

It's definitely like a mafia.

If you're going from anywhere to India or to Nepal, then they want to know,

and they actually actively seek that information during retreat.

You could help sogyal by taking some luggage for him.

And I carried a super hot jacket like a leather, not shiny leather, like a suede jacket or something like that.

But I'm scared to take off.

Sogyal, he would phone me and say, you have it?

Okay, don't lose it or you die or something like that.

If you lose it, don't come back. Don't fuck up.

I was scared when I went through there to customers' think.

It was money from donated by students at a retreat.

It was for building in a monastery which is up in the mountains.

My name is Ankar Jisharpa.

I have been working for three monasteries at present.

I'm executive board member of Chiwang Monastery which is almost 100 years old.

And I have worked as a treasurer of this monastery for the last five years.

And now I am an advisor for the last 15 years.

So I have basically all the knowledge about the monasteries in Nepal.

Before we had a very small monastery built by the local people using local materials like wood, stones and mud.

And those monasteries were very small in size and could accommodate only the local villages.

The villages are liable to give the monasteries regular grains, you know, like whatever they grow in their villages.

They have to give a part of that to the monasteries.

That was how the monastery was survived.

Without the fund of the Westerners, physically it would have not been as large as you see these monasteries, you know.

And when the facilities are enlarged and more and more young people are motivated to the monastic education.

When more people really came into the monastery, especially young generations,

that definitely has spread the teaching of the Buddhism also.

So it's really meaningful help from the Westerners, yeah.

It was quite difficult for me to accept the idea that a great master with great capacity in teaching

could also be a little deviant.

It's still a little time before, somewhere, it's sad to say, because it shouldn't be like that.

But put a little time before really infusing and we realize that it's very serious.

And there, I started somewhere to say that I was going to leave.

What I did in the current of 2014.

And many, by the way, we waited for 2017 to really realize the enormity of the situation.

Because it's in 2017 that the Dalai Lama under pressure was recognized publicly.

The Dalai Lama under pressure

The Dalai Lama under pressure

Now recently, Sir Kedinbuchi, my very good friend, but he disgraced some of his own sort of student.

He was publicly a student.

He made public use of the criticism.

The Dalai Lama under pressure

In September 2018, the Dalai Lama was visited in Europe.

With other victims, we seized the opportunity.

We got an interview with him in the following he takes care of at the last floor of this hotel.

I recorded the conversation.

The Dalai Lama under pressure

I was a kid. I was born inside the Buddhist community.

Where?

In Belgium and then I lived in France.

In Nimatong. Do you know Nimatong?

Nimatong.

Nimatong.

What is the name of the language?

It is used in the court as a way to legitimate a Buddhist center.

This has to stop. We have to do something.

11 children abused sexually.

11 girls.

What I think is a real problem is that in the West there is the idea this is not happening in Buddhism.

They are very naive.

They know it is in the Catholic Church.

They know it is in other places, but not in Buddhism.

I think it is good that also Western people know that Buddhism also has this problem.

Because it is a human.

It is a human problem.

I think at least 15 to 20 years ago, at Namsala, one Western Buddhist teacher's conference,

there is someone, you see, mentioned, I think most of the Sajamichi Buddha made very clear for rule,

including sexual harassment, misconduct.

Now all you think is, must make public.

Yes, we made so much public.

Already public.

Even though such people may not be serious about the Buddha's rule, but they may feel ashamed.

Yeah, but shame not enough.

Can you speak about the problem of sexual abuse in the communities?

Can you do that?

Yes, certainly.

Wonderful.

You have got some material to discuss.

You should not put whole responsibility on my shoulder.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

In this interview, a victim tells the Dalai Lama his experience with a guru still in activity.

Yes.

If you're serious, then self-discipline comes.

Yeah, but Namka was not like that.

Namka did a lot to women and girls.

Namka is a 54-year-old Tibetan Lama, refuge in Europe for about 20 years.

He has several centers across the world, including one in the south of Spain.

Namka has a lawsuit against him.

The woman is filing a complaint, but I'm the first to put it in the news.

What if nobody does about Namka?

I have been.

No one's just Sandra.

Then later, I got some information.

He was not a genuine Buddhist practitioner.

So now these material we need to find out.

Evidence.

Evidence.

So very good.

Very good.

Now the first time I took Namka out, I was so frightened to see my friend.

I got ready and got the package with another aloof volunteer on my side.

I was informed about the aloof volunteer.

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The seeds of this tree used to grow out well.

Then, they embraced the home alone.

This is a growing tree.

The root, this is the root.

Cold forecast were implanted.

He didn't want to leaveぉ

Yeah, but I don't worry about it.

If I leave, there's nothing to worry about.

My rather important mission is to provide the capability

Before you were born, we used to talk and walk around theurch

on the 5ho counter,

People used to call it a frontline

people used to say the Resistance.

I have been working in the city for nine years.

I have been working in the city for six years.

After a plentiful trial in Switzerland,

several signs were made by the Dalai Lama

who did not react.

Namka always teaches Tibetan Buddhism.

In 2020, the Appell court of the Iége

has condemned Robert Spatt to five years in prison with Sursy

and financial repairs for his victims.

He was sentenced to death in prison.

The sunshade continues to receive the public

and the organization at the prison

has never rejected Robert Spatt's legacy.

The Appell court of the Iége

has condemned Robert Spatt to five years in prison

with Sursy and financial repairs for his victims.

The Appell court of the Iége

has condemned Robert Spatt to five years in prison

with Sursy and financial repairs for his victims.