Celebrities, influenza, and experts to talk about all plain love data. And yet today, nothing less the south, all these things and more and the new season of the fuck. Com. Make sure to tune in wherever you get you plus costs, enjoying the conversation because you know, its last matter the this is where i grew up in the heart of the gods. Do that on in the south of france, [000 00 00;00] the in a Tibetan BuddhistCommunity Called okay, see i was one of about 60 children there. The thats me in the photo. I was 5 years old. One of my parents abandoned me here in a place called shut to do so that my childhood was an endless cycle of praying and frustrating. I didnt see my mother for several years. I was subjected to beatings, food deprivation and cold. Some of the girls i grew up with went through much worse in the form of teachings and rituals that took years to be classified as rate the fall in the name of a religion that to westerners is above suspicion. The buddhism, the for being received the Nobel Peace Prize. The this is not rights teachers did not have sex of students. The. My name is ricardo. Now 40 years old. For 6 years, ive been fighting to bring our former master to justice in court. Lama couldnt zone all the spots spots as belgians. He was one of the 1st westerners to establish a Buddhist Community in europe. Hes a recognized teacher of tibetan buddhism along the in the here we go. The, today im the Spokes Person for 23 plaintiffs, and the case against lama crimson here. A plaintiff, which he called him, and he now lives in the south of spain and declined to show up. Hes on trial for exploitation of workers Holding Children hostage and sexual abuse the results. Please be seated. Yeah, no, no, well continue with mr. Mental the shipment. This coast with the boom its, do you wish to emphasize anything about the statements youve made . So it was a fairly easy was discussed because it just was until this case began to consume my mind over the last 4 years. And i had no idea about the definition of sexual abuse, then addition installed on your x ray. Dont. Why was it mounted by the idea that these girls, by daring to go public, could imagine because it might be ruined . 06, was it . The quantity tweeze . It dont, i decided we had to protect them, but a, the thinking was told that if we protect those who are most vulnerable, and we tell our own stories and make a goal disclosure to the court, or it wont expose new maam, then the truth would come out to the new society lovely to accept the the boys who went with your parents to show it to a disarray in the south of france. You will with your parents in the hall. Yes. A long hold on and at some stage they left. Was there any physical abuse . Go ahead. I know much. They got slapped anymore. Its crazy, but i didnt think it was serious. Much post makes it difficult, but i saw kids getting beaten and the stairwells you the best the most do not. But child smashed against the wall covered in blood. So can you call upon me . I have many visual memories of violent scene here. You could show any of the commercial here. She said by apple. How did you react to this 5 minutes to didnt i was afraid that maybe they were you also given private lessons by mr. Spots . I think you do you have a question . Well yes. One on one way. Yes. Thats going to prove it. Can you describe to us the nature of these lessons . Because theres nothing in the office. You have cannot say he began to summon me for private meetings when i was quite small, easy to home. This was in his room beneath the tower inmate g 2. When he told me to go to a small tower just behind his apartment, hes about to move. This was in the evening discreetly, so as not to arouse any suspicion or jealousy from bet. So im going to read receipt. Thats how he presented. It. Want me to present that why it keeps, i have to go to this tower in the evening and wait for him. I think im going to bring my do a along just because i would be sleeping there for a few nights and i couldnt, couldnt be, she wont be on too. I went up into the tower. The new taskbar came later in the evening. He says he sat down and prayed with me, his mom a p a. And as im stage he began talking about Spiritual Energy. I can see if i need to know how to use the future to, to, to high a, to see. And he touched my shoulders, saying that Spiritual Energy was coursing through my body, which i should be able to feel the feeling that he said i had to take off my clothes because they were blocking the energy. Im good, not bad at midtown, dont you know . I remember falling asleep in the tower because he didnt turn up the 15 but couldnt do anything. I remember being woken up by him touching my private parts to the best coverage best did it dont plan with to she already talked to you on so you know, you might need to include told me to lay naked on the floor e s q produce some sort of bomb and started applying it to my breasts functionally. So ill fight, you know, they explained to me that there was a lot of energy in the central oregons and breast with this because these were the major energy zones. G is youre going to come up the lid so he began to, to simulate them too high in order to transfer the energy spots, the lights that substitute enlightenment. He understood everything. See, so he was omnipresent. Youre gonna know he knew what we were thinking and feeling. God forbid he knew our past lives are good karma or bad karma. You leave. Hygiene you heard of best be was extremely generous because instead of living in nevada, she chose to live on earth to help us east and be in this awful place where everyone was suffering. She said she was doing this for us. He so, so, so he ordered us to do things that may have seemed unfair or odd a little crazy or pointless by you. But we needed to follow his exact instructions to achieve enlightenment cms. I pulled out the results on. Yeah, if was, if i understand correctly, the lama demanded blind obedience. We yes. If i was raped in this life, it was because i must have been a man who raped a woman in a former life and im give you my punishment was to relieve the experience as a woman to purge my bad karma lucky me and become closer to Enlightenment Agency and 50 fortunately, they wanna see thats what thats what he told you we im describing what he told us. Those moments dispatched his teachings. What, yes, the as a child, i remember seeing all the great masters of buddhism coming to meet all the spots. Even the dalai lama visited him. However, during my investigation, i came across images that stunned me in the early ninetys. While we were suffering at the hands of a little best spots. A meeting was arranged between the dalai lama and buddhist masters in the west. They spent hours talking about sexual and Financial Abuse within buddhist communities. So well that spots was not an isolated case. The west and board. His teachers from different traditions. The we met with the dalai lama, i think about 7 or 8 times over 3 days we. He was very generous with his time. He was very generous with his time. Under the trouble of the conference. The guy with the died on the receiving letters from on the happy women night late, who complained to him as the head of the church that they had been mistreated by the tibetan teachers. It is, ill send you a teachers in the us and in europe were concerned about the growing number of sexual and ethical scandals that were coming to light on the 6th. Its something needed to be done. It who 2nd before was i have received many letters from women, many women saying please, what can be done . Do something or i also received a, this is, im glad to say about 600 each of these things to go through every, every effort for me to stop as i understand the situation for the list of done that under the present. Here we have to discuss we just said, this is not right, the teachers are not handsets of students. But if your holiness could join in and that kind of statement, it would give norm us power to it. It would help enormously good media. They dont, they dont tell people to do this. I, i havent shopped at the teachers wont listen. Maybe the teachers were having sex and drinking. They may not listen to the students. So now listen. Now listen to, you know, tremendously then people can say no say no, because youre giving a spend, which people trusting right towards the end of this meeting, the suggestion was that we write an open letter in which we would present what we had reflected upon and what we had decided and hopefully arrive at some kind of resolution from march 16 to 191993. A meeting was held at dunham sila, between his holiness, the dalai lama and a group of 20 west and on the teachers. I was charged with the rising out of the texas and then of this led to the i read it is paper back to his already nice issues. In recent years, several asian and west and teachers have been involved in scandals concerning Sexual Misconduct with the students. Students should be warned against the dangers of folding prey to christmas exalted titles, exoticism one. The citing these points uh there was some response representing them as some sort of consensus. Okay. Arrived at the and say, well we maybe we should say this maybe we should say that other voice is also amongst the group suggested changes and so forth. And we arrived off for a couple of hours at a text that we were all happy to put on names to take you through it. And then the dalai lama said, 1st of all, we have to pass this matter through his private office. And then Nothing Happened for weeks. There was no response, there was nothing. And eventually it did come back to me and the others. And the only thing thats a changed was the dell, as long as name had been removed as a signatory. The or in my childish eyes, the dalai lama was the embodiment of benevolence. Why didnt he intervene . I realized he was not only a spiritual guide. He was also a political leader. His priorities play elsewhere. The also going to know the engine. Additionally, the defense of pick go you dont need a more recent than his gloves. You did exceed those on tv. Those are designed for him to know that i didnt get to see him that i eat among the my name is tending. Did i soaked in the office of certain this fall or with for to something use the chemo go to bed by now is about 6 years 1959. So in this, the thought i might came into india along with thousands of to bed the and then would the delilah im on there was this whole government sort of set up continued farm to that. The, i remember the sixtys use that time. Brandon, sort of this made a b as to where lead us for the issue of debate to be discussed in the united nations. So we had all these letters to be type for the heads of these countries. But i remember typing many and because they didnt have computers or, oh, its a terrible one mistake. Take out the whole thing again, die. Not connected to that. Any way indoors. It is. It was actually a very exciting moment. The dalai lama is both a political and a religious figure. Yes to her when theres always been a political, as i mention, especially at the beginning when they arrived from tibet more in exile, just say or is that they were driven out. You know, if its a 100, its a book to so many of them died. It dont exactly even though they reached india and had to find their place if they needed allies, the rate from the early times. But situation to a very difficult month. Veterans index side, id take any kind of help, you know, from outside was very welcome. They needed support us from western countries. The just in a very inclusive do they want to go or they want to explore. They want to find things. You know its very interesting in the initial stage it was mostly the hippies who, who are not interested in production but this to go to new places and thats you know, go up there has shoes and lets deal with things like that. But then some of them have also, you know, inquisitive mind so then gradually listen to the c b and more and more, you know, for those who really wanted to explore and find out the tourism, go to an individual position. I am the director of this institute called the library of division logs into our pipes, the origin, the idea of establishing this institute of this position for motion and dissemination of dividend go to i use enough the quest for truth wisdom, knowledge and myself is how that is that i realize that in the west who owns that, we dont think about ourselves in our properly aware of ourselves as you on the townsend isnt the only things that were focused on the external one, all to see one cars, power money on the television, illinois we want to travel always, were always looking outwards, but never whats happening inside of us on the us. Probably know the candidates for that sort of jump, but were at least were represented that was we were a channel into the wider world that they now found themselves in for many who maybe even just studied or had contact with directors for a year or 2 on the not too long, it was enough for them to have some kind of a close feeling for the tibetans and once they left im still out or in board, but i just im down in the center. Awesome. But support group back and my parents stay. Buddhism was really becoming on vogue. The ones that dont really use the civic when he comes to the sees it needs to be of them. It does a lot of these and all paid off if you also need to come and see them at the groceries to see, to do my best. If you have any tool that comes with the price and you said this was on 12. 00 white white, who did you like it . The civilians wanting the most of them to do. Would you submit to the 2nd senior litzy . They only thought its as if to bed due to having been physically expelled from its homeland has managed thanks to the dalai lama this to create what i would call a virtual de territorial lies to bed. Easy, the dates, monasteries, and tibetan buddhism centers around the world constitute a kind of prefect to the acting on behalf of the virtual to bed. Spread all over the globe space. Also im going to the, you know, it doesnt cool. Now hes suddenly realizing that he could link the political, spiritual, and cultural dimensions and safe tibetan culture through the spiritual desires of west. And this is actually also using those desires to put political pressure on china for digital solution. Will you please enter that told you and received the Nobel Peace Prize for 1989. We did go on levels and the, the, the, when this awards happen made it easier for governments and other organizations to say that, you know, create inviting historians, groceries that know been already the the tibetan branch is a minority among buddhists, but its the most successfully exported its success is mainly due to the dalai lama, so in just a few years managed to achieve iconic status. Everyone in one of their photo taken with the tibetan liter bill clinton. Chuck, she rock and movie stars. Like richard gear, the, the cases of abuse. Multiply that support for the tibetan cause spread around the world. The im one of the few journalists who has focused exclusively on abused by buddhist for a long time. So people approach me constantly every 2 or 3 weeks. Someone approaches me about some abuse somewhere in the world. Sometimes those people have been abused themselves. Sometimes they have been witnesses to abuse. And they tried to involve me in their case, the soviet rainbow, che, is a one of the biggest abuse or symbolism over the years, i think. So you may have hundreds of victims just by, you know, abusing them physically and sexually. And im not even including people who were worked until the drops for nothing. This has been going on since the mid 19 seventys until the late 2000 and then plant 10. So thats a long period of time, the, or the 10th and the good to be done within this a system. I dont really stop. Its the most secure link. But see if im able to beat music. Ive lived in the west for many years now. I the see, so look, see though, is always the most likely next hopefully congestion v c value, sufficient thing. So in the photo, would these move to it . So may just say people dont send you that such as the last thing you want to, but the, i just stated this, i think i thought because if i you see more to say the to be doing amendment terrace. I was at a large conference, attended by 60 to 80 people, so you know that you and there was a young lama there called the sociology, written, pushy type hard. Yeah. It could just go very good english. And it was very dynamic and aggressive when it came to the excess of materialism, that the failure of western society and its quest for happiness the she can do to assist you if shes on the bed on south shelby. But now itd be what i didnt, visual spewing today, does it exist . So he had a spiritual vision of existence that was very committed to cost, very practical, very connected to the modern world, which was Pretty Amazing at that time, paul. Yeah, i think okay, the basically expanded on glare. I happen to speak english. I was offered a job as a translator and interpreter working for so gal, rim, bushy, and other law must to see if one thing led to another, and i became pro, to the fridge. By france off the so hill at some point and wrote a book, or at least had a book written for him. And the dalai lama wrote before to the book. So the book became a best seller. And those tiny organizations grew bigger and bigger. So this is how a small time tibetan guy, bills and them are all over the world. Anyone interested in spirituality is familiar with the tibetan book of living and dying. The like many people, i was fascinated by it and intrigued by its author. The book was a huge success in the English Speaking world when published in 1992 and a year later in french, german and other languages. A lot. Yeah. Hundreds of people began coming to the center. So youre going to do some really big centers developed in 10 or so countries, the us various western european countries, australia, india. Now that probably then branch of spring up and other countries could be figurative. Okay, ill rep or she has a great entrepreneur. Im like fairly excellent startup king of tibetan buddhism to build a tv time on there were different types of people getting different type of treatments during retreats to the normal students and retreats. And its worth told me that the right way of living is a life where you renunciate material goods and then there was the life of the in a circle on the line last and the v i piece which was one of the luxury good folks. So there was a big discrepancy between the students in which they were who were told to live and assess the lunch tray i, i saw on the other side, the men and women in the unit circle and had a task that was taken care of. So we all and it was clear that the most beautiful girls were with him almost day in like the yet i accepted that they were there with out asking myself the question if they had for ins