Quantcast
Channel: Cult Education Forum - "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 12838

Re: Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche Issues Public Statement on Recent Criticism of Sogyal Rinpoche

$
0
0



This is what some of the monasteries in Bhutan look like. Bhutan's saint is Drukpa Kunley, a supposed yogi known for spending his career womanizing all over the country. He was considered a saintly madman, and the mythology states that the thousands of women "blessed" with his "gifts" were grateful for his attention. Notice that the imagery depicts ejaculation, although yogis are supposed to practice seminal retention. According to the Dalai Lama, allowing ejaculation is a sin, because it means the so-called practitioner, a monk or yogi, is enjoying the sensuality, rather than focusing on meditation and the prevention of ejaculation. It's a root downfall, he says. So this imagery would have us believe that the supposed "saint" caused hundreds, if not thousands, of pregnancies, either leaving the women and girls to fend for themselves, or perhaps creating new crops of child novices for the monasteries.

So what this imagery communicates quite clearly is the cultural matrix and belief system that nurtured the mentality of Dzongsar Khyentse and his colleagues and compatriots. From this perspective, his cluelessness about abuse, callousness, and sense of entitlement are more understandable, which is not at all to imply they are justifiable. It's the 21st Century, for heaven's sake, and he has adopted the persona of a modern, hip lama.

In Bhutan, the general population was brainwashed to believe that having their underage girls, even pre-pubescent girls, taken by the monastery to serve as "goddesses" and "Buddha mothers" (meaning--used for tantric sex rituals) was a high honor. According to the testimony of one former "goddess", the girls, like herself, didn't even know this was abuse. After being "retired" from her "service" by the monastery, she got an education in India, where she learned that raping 12- and 14-year-old girls was abuse.

It seems that Dzongsar Khyentse can't understand why Western women don't fall in line with the Bhutanese and Tibetan medieval mindset, and consider themselves honored to be chosen by their teacher for sex. All he's able to do is mock women who feel used and abused, and scoff at legal systems making spiritual teachers like him accountable for their crimes.

He doesn't seem to be aware that even in Bhutan, taking girls into the monasteries to use them for sex has been illegal since the late 1960's. This would indicate how well the law is complied with by the monks. The former Buddha-mother/goddess interviewed above told the interviewer the practice continues in secret.

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 12838

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>