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The Darling of London Society. a Bests He Was Regarded As N o t so l o n g a g o t h is B u d d h is t l a m a , So g y a THE DARLING OF LONDON SOCIETY. A BESTS HE WAS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE✓ MOST GIFT t h e W e s t . T o d a y h e is f a c in g c h a r HARASSMENT FROM A FOLLOWER WH $10 MILLION IN DAMAGES. MlCK BROWN INVEST] IN WHICH MUCH MORE THAN ONE REPUTATJ teacher* and doctor*, drawn by the promise of When, in 1992, a Tibetan Buddhist lama the exotic and the wise held out by a venerated teacher »peaking from a ccniuticvoid tiaxubor.. A* the lama offeree a few wed chosen wore* on the named Sogyal Rinpoche launched his Subject of compassionate living, the multirude of thirty- and fortysonxthmgs dutifully sat cm«- book, The 1 ibetan Book of Living and Dying, legged and cramped on the floor, limbs creskutg and achx.g. It was a »null but portentous symbol Ot the dis­ in London, a celebratory party was held comfort? that can arise when East meets West. Few among the gathenng, perhaps, would have predicted that the book, a contemporary intcrptc - in a chic Kensington flat. The party .itior. of traditional Tibeun Buddhist ideal wI dying, would go or. to bcconie an inteznannrv . was couture bohemian — thronged with bcsrscEcf. Yct three yean on, Tbt Tfotea Bttk < L tm g a td has sold more than 230.000 cop/ around the worui. 50.0W in Br.tam alone. the alternative intelligentsia, writers, The book, to which the Dalai Lama wrote*"*6 20 1CLCURAPI MAGA7 Sf L R in p o c h e , w as ELLING AUTHOR, ED TEACHERS IN GES OF SEXUAL O IS SEEKING GATES A SCANDAL ON IS AT STAKE MMN/WIMC«« Km foreword, struck a resonant chord in the growing a meditative retreat, which is why he has JO tar and Dying, be is cctumijr one o( the best known Western dehare about the nature of consciousness been unable personally to respond toONE a lawsuit Rinpochc means ‘precious one’ Sogyal is and our attitude to death. which has been laid in a Californian court, seeking believed ro be the incarnation of Tenon Sogyal. a It has beer, widely adopted by hospice organisa­ $10 million damages on a sexua. harassment charge. Tibetan lama who was the teacher of the 13th tions and doctors working with the dying, The suit — which includes entints of fraud, Dalai I-ama (the present one is rhe 14th) and who psychologists and philosophers have queued to assault and battery, infliction of emotional distress died in 1926. commend it not simply for its insights into death, and breach of fiduciary duty — alleges chat, using Now in his late 40s, Sogyal Rinpochc was but as a complete blueprint for an ethical and the justification of his spiritual status, the lama brought up m a monastery in Tibet. He left for compassionate life. John Geese described it as ‘one sexually and physically abused a female student, India in 1958, a year Ueioce the popular Tibetan or the most helpful books I have ever read', and, turning her against he: husband *r»d family. This, uprising against Chinese occupation that led to the introducing a talk in Lx>ndon by the Rinpochc, the charge alleges, was merely one example in a Dala: Lama’s flight into exile. I Ic was educated hy hailed his own first appearance as ‘warm-up man pattern of abuse agau.se a number of women over Jesuits at a CathoLc school then at university in for an incarnate lama'. the past 19 years. Delhi, and at Tnmty College, Cambridge, where But while The TUrta/i Book of Living and Dying hau It ;s :ia:d to convey tue gravity of the accusa­ he studied comparative rcl roc, although he did brought Sogyal Rinpochc international celebrity, tions. Sogyal Rinpochc is widely regarded as not graduate. the twinges of discomfort evident in that or.c of the most gifted and cnbghrencd teachers He arrved in London m the late Seventies and Kensington party have now blown up into contro­ of Tibetan Buddhism in the West and, since began gathering a small group of sradents around versy and .scandal. Sogyal Rinpochc is presently on the publication ot Tlx ftit ton Book of living him, and m 1961 the Rigpa Fellowship (Rigpa TELEGRAPH MAOA2 IN E 21 From left, Sogyal Rinpoche in France, 1993, W a re charges of seiual harassment were Wed; appearing in Bertolucci's little Buddha'. A bort, m e of SogyaTs predecessors, the eccentric means ‘innermost nature of mine') was rounded through devotion and his spiritual instruction she Accusants» of the misuse of power, of sexual o: ro propagate las teachings. Rigps now has could ‘purify her farruly’s karma’, and that she financial scandal, have become a commonplace i t . several thousand followers, offices throughout should realise rha: *hc IS Buddha and that all hi; virtually every religion. The temptations of whar Europe and North Emetic», and teaching centre; actions are Buddha activity’. is known m American evangelical circle; as the in Ireland, France and Ccliforr.ia. Sogyal The next evening, Sogyal invited the woman to ‘Three GV — 'girls, gold and glory’ — have Rinpoche ” known as ‘the laughing Lima' his room where, allegedly, he seduced her. He later brought down religious figures as various as the because of his permanently cheery disposition “ told her that her family had been healed ’by lus Reverend Jimmy Swaggan and Catholic pries:s Icctuies around the world, and has even found love and kindness’ and that ilus blessing ‘could (for whom the problem is as often boys as girls). fame as a film actor, appearing in Bernardo only be maintained through her unswerving Eastern religious teachers have beer, no mote Bcnolucd’s LittU Brnidhc devotion to him’. immune to trmptarion The pasr three decades The case agabist Sogyai :s believed to be rhe first Over a period of six months, the charge alleges, have been littered with accounts of self-styled time that a Buddhist h im has ever faced public tiie woman was subjected to ‘systematic indoctri­ gurus and swssus who have risen in a blaze of trial on sexual harassment charges. But it is nation’ designed to separate her from ’nomni sup­ glory - and rank in dßgn.ee merely one in a growing number of problems port systems’, including her husband, family and Until now, however, Buddhism has been racing the lama's organisation. In Bnrain, the law friends, to make her completely dependent or, untainted by any major public winrial. suit has brought to a head growing concerns Rinpoche and Rigpa for ’all physical, mental ar.c Sogyai Rmpocnc is a farm, bur not a celibate monk. among some members or his organisation about emotional needs’. In that time, Sogyal allegedly He is unmarried, and there are, theoccccaCy. no con­ the lama's sexual conduct, which have already ‘physically ar.c mentally abased’ Doc, claiming that straints on his pnYirc behaviour other man the third resulted in a number of departures. In October to be hit by a lama was *a blessing’ and requiring Buddhist precept OC< to engage in sexual misconduct. 1992, a trustee resigned over Sogyal’s sexual con­ her to perform ‘degrading acts' in order :o ‘bring The cornerstone of all Tibetan Buddlus: practice duct, after suggesting to him that he should seek her closer to a state of enlightenment*. is the rclanooshp between an individual and a help, and writing to the Dalai Lama or. the teacher Within the Vsjrayana, or tan trie, tradition, matter. She subsequently gave detailed informa­ SOGYAI. RTNPOCHE has mace r.o comment or. to which Sogyai Rinpoche belongs, this relation­ tion, nuunt&ining the anonymity of those who had die allegations, although the Rigpa Fellowship says ship can often be one of extreme emotional and, confided in her, at a meeting with trustees and that 'as far as wc’tc aware, they have no founda­ in some cases, ever, physical intimacy, demanding oilier member» of the Rigpa community. tion'. ‘The charge portray» Sogyal’s conduct m a the total trust of the pupil n the teacher’s scücss In America, t.-ic case has prompted a tierce lighr that is truly distorted,’ says Jack Friedman, motives — and total integrity on the part of rhe debate, not only about the role of Tibetan teachers the California attorney for Rigpa. ’NFlmi wc have teacher doc to abuse that trust. in the West, and the coni Lets between ar. ar.cicnr here,* he says, ‘is someone attempting to bong It is oo the complicated nature of thn relationship spiritual tradition and contemporary standards of about changes in the way a religious organisation that the charge against Sogyal Rinpoche partly secular behaviour, hut also about the growmg conducts itself, and the religious practice itself, hinges. Was he. a teacher, taking advanuege of prevalence of sexual harassment cases in a society through the law courts.* the trust placed a him by a student? At whar where people are increasingly encouraged to per­ Among some Buddhists there is a feeing that point dues individual respocinbtlxy in any sexual ceive themselves as victims of abuse’ — whether there is more to die cuse than meets the eye; that relationship begin and end? I» any rdanonship by their parents, their teachers, their employers, or Rinpoche is the victim of a campaign in which between a teacher - porccularir a spiritual one - their religious leaders — and to seek redress in the allegations of sexual impropriety and the weapon and a student by dctinrauc abusive? Or was this, newspapers or the conns.
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