Buddhist teacher forced devotees into sex, wiping his butt
A Dalai Lama wannabe was more like a gross Svengali, according to a damning new report.
Once one of the world’s most respected Buddhist teachers, Sogyal Rinpoche forced his devotees to have sex with him and wipe his butt, an international Buddhist organization named Rigpa found in an investigation.
Rinpoche, who sold more than 3 million copies of his tome, “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,” subjected some of his inner circle “to serious physical, sexual and emotional abuse,” The Sun reported.
The English government is also investigating the claims about Rinpoche’s “harem,” which he dubbed his “Dakinis.”
“Sogyal and the girls thought everything that went into him and came out of him was holy,” one accuser said in the report. “So the girls wiped his a– for him. He liked to have work gatherings while he took a s–t with the door open,” she said. “He also chewed his food then exchanged it with a kiss to the girls.
“I think he partly believed what he did was good for his students. But his main focus was on sex and sensual pleasure.”
One male student described his “abject humiliation” when Rinpoche cupped his testicles in front of a group of people.
In the 2011 documentary “In The Name Of Enlightenment,” a former follower claimed Rinpoche sexually exploited her.
“There was a moment when I was alone in his room with him. And then he said, ‘Undress’ . . . I just considered it another test of devotion,” she said.
He then proceeded to have unprotected sex with her while saying, “Look into my eyes, this is the moment you connect with your master.”
She added, “He asked me to swear never to speak about it to anyone. If I talked about it, it would sever this connection. I feel very sad because I lost myself and I was in a group of girls who had lost themselves even more.”
The report also details Rinpoche’s alleged use of donations to fund a lavish lifestyle, including fine wines, Cuban cigars and a chauffeur-driven Mercedes.
Other bigwigs within Rigpa — which Rinpoche founded — “were aware of some of these issues and failed to address them,” according to the report, which comes a year after eight of Rinpoche’s followers alleged abuse in a letter that was leaked online.
The accusations forced Rinpoche, who was labeled a “disgrace,” to step down and apologize.
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