Shambhala Faces Most Damning Revelations to Date: Buddhist Project Sunshine Phase 3 Report - AUGUST 23, 2018 BY JUSTIN WHITAKER

Shambhala Faces Most Damning Revelations to Date: Buddhist Project Sunshine Phase 3 Report

AUGUST 23, 2018 BY JUSTIN WHITAKER

A new report detailing widespread sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault, and community complicity in Shambhala has been published today by Andrea Winn’s Buddhist Project Sunshine.* The report is 46 pages long and addresses a number of questions that have arisen since the second report. It also features new findings from Carol Merchasin, an independent investigator invited to look into allegations against Shambhala leadership and in particular Ösel Rangdröl Mukpo (aka Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche).

Mukpo/Sakyong is the son of Chögyam Trungpa, the charismatic founder of Shambhala Buddhism, and the current lineage holder.

But the report also cites popular writer and teacher Pema Chödrön as having “retraumatized” a Shambhala rape survivor and lists leaders who are alleged to have been involved in one of the instances of group sexual assault. Those leaders are listed on page 16 of the report along with the names of others involved in that and other incidents.

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