October 09, 2018

Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery Working through Revelations of Sexual Impropriety

The upstate New York monastery has hired outside consultants and therapists to address improper sexual relationships between Lama Norlha and his students.

By The Editors

 JUL 27, 2017

 This isn’t the first such case of unethical behavior to come to light this year. Lama Norlha, 79, the abbot of the Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery in Wappingers Falls, New York, issued a taped apology for his own sexual misconduct, presented at a community-wide “disclosure meeting” in April. At that meeting, statements were read by six women (three were present, and three had their statements read in absentia) regarding their relations with Lama Norlha. Two women had come forward in December of last year. Lama Norlha, it turns out, had been sexually involved with students for decades.

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