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“Amazing Accomplishments” and “Lamp Illuminating the Excellent Path”: Two new Marpa Lotsawa Liberation Stories composed by Pawo Tsuglag Trengwa at different ages at Sekhar Gutok, Tibet
“Blazing with bravery, like a great lion soaring through space, Turquoise mane of thousands of oral instructions on the tantras’ meaning, Bellowing laughter that stirs the ‘earth’ of the whispered lineage, Remembering again the supreme translator. སེང་ཆེན་མཁའ་ལ་འཕྱོ་འདྲའི་སྙིང་སྟོབས་འབར༎ རྒྱུད་དོན་མན་ངག་འབུམ་གྱིས་གཡུ་རལ་གསིག༎ སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ས་གཞི་གཡོ་བའི་གད་རྒྱངས་ཅན༎ སྐྱེས་མཆོག་སྒྲ་བསྒྱུར་རྒྱལ་སླར་ཡང་དྲན༎། –17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s Praise to Marpa (tr. A. Tomlin) “For instance, the life-story “Lamp Illuminating…
《并非真正的“圣岛”:英国噶举派桑耶林佛教中心发生多起针对女性的欺凌和性骚扰事件,其中多因纵容酿成悲剧,最终导致女性身心受到残害,甚至引发自杀和谋杀,涉事者包括主奔堪仁波切噶玛拉布、卡登喇嘛等人(含杀害阿贡仁波切的凶手)》(Chinese title)
Here is a Chinese translation of the Holy Isle Samye Ling survivors’ allegations article, originally published in English here. Translation by a Chinese-speaking reader of the website. “如果你觉得进行令人不舒服的对话很难,那就等着瞧若不进行这些对话的后果吧。” “我们真正应该视为至高无上的上师,并非任何被冠以‘上师’或‘喇嘛’之名的人,也并非世人皆知的伟大喇嘛。这需要你用自己的智慧去观察和检验。你需要了解他们的背景,才能判断他们是否良善。你需要真正磨练自己的理解力,达到相应的境界。这才是我们所称的上师。你不应该仅仅因为有人自称上师就去追随他们。”——第十七世噶玛巴尊者(2024年) “有三样东西无法长久隐藏:太阳、月亮和真相。”。 一、引言 最近有一位英国女性自杀,之后,我从可靠的渠道(例如来自桑耶林寺和桑耶宗寺的前闭关修行者、居民或志愿者)获得了更多关于此前针对主奔噶玛拉布(又名主奔堪仁波切)、卡登喇嘛以及其他与桑耶林寺有关的上师(或身居要职的男性僧侣)的投诉详情。本文将介绍这些过去的事件,以及列出了相关记录。 这些投诉已送交援助机构、桑耶林或桑耶宗的受托人及常驻喇嘛藏摩,并已报警。据其中一名女性所述,她被告知自己遭到了犯罪行为。投诉内容包括性骚扰、性侵犯或胁迫、“非法拘禁”(即拒绝允许人们因紧急情况离开闭关,例如就医或因精神崩溃)、情感霸凌、强迫签署保密协议、拒绝为遭受身体疼痛或重病的人提供适当帮助,等等。据报道,一些女性因上述原因要求离开闭关,却遭到威胁,有人骂她们会下地狱,甚至在她们哭泣时充满恶意地面带微笑,并告诉她们会短命、身患重病,她们的家人也会因此丧命或生病。据报道,相关的闭关负责人、尼姑喇嘛仁钦也不愿允许受害女性离开闭关状态。 尤其令人费解的是,有指控称,有人持续(且并非出于爱或善意)滥用密宗仪式,强迫伴侣在未经适当同意或出于虔诚心,甚至上师或伴侣不具备此类关系所需资格的情况下,进行“微妙的能量结合”。另有报道称,目前在尼泊尔的静修中心,人们进入该中心前会被没收护照。 另须澄清,受害女性在达成某种法律和解后并未收到任何“封口费”,而是因为桑耶林信托人(及管理人员)完全没有对她们的投诉采取任何行动,也没有启动独立客观的调查,所以才导致她们保持沉默。此外,有消息称,圣岛静修中心目前也仍然没有为女性提供足够的保障措施。 二、认真考虑长期退出:在某些情况下,是否需要启动合理(且公平)的筛选程序及设置“退出条款”? 一方面,为了保证报告的公正客观,在金刚乘的语境下,长期闭关修行被视为一件非常严肃的事情,不应草率对待。因此,一般来说,老师和闭关带领者都不希望学员因为“不再喜欢或享受”闭关、轻微的身体不适、情绪波动或受到其他伤害等原因而退出。因为这些情况可能会扰乱闭关的目的,影响其他学员的心情。而闭关的最终目的,正是以爱与慈悲为基础,去“摧毁自我”。我了解到,参加长期闭关需要花费16000英镑(尽管有些人的背后有赞助者),这无疑是一笔巨大的经济投入,但这其中似乎并没有对闭关者的心理或生理健康进行任何实质性的事先筛选(除了由医生进行一次简短的体检),也没有经由噶玛拉布和其他喇嘛对参与者是否适合参加这类封闭式长期闭关进行彻底的事先审查工作。 然而,即便如此,另一方面,当一位男性上师的行为违背了对待女性的正常伦理,违反了佛教的主要戒律,并且似乎在以女性不同意或不愿接受的方式强迫她们进行“结合”(例如缔结金刚乘的“伴侣关系”)来肆意欺凌和骚扰她们时,理应存在某种明确的“退出”条款。正如我之前所写,这种伴侣关系必须在完全同意、充满爱、慈悲、奉献和尊重的情况下进行,女性应被视为神圣的平等伙伴和智慧的源泉。事实上,当女性反对这种结合或“侵犯”时,她们会迅速遭到排斥、孤立和“妖魔化”,被视为坏人和“敌人”,而没有任何成熟、冷静的对话机制来消除误会或达成和解。 【Insert picture of Drupon Karma Lhabu here】 【Insert picture of Katen Lama here】 其中一位幸存者A告诉我,在未经她同意的情况下,噶玛拉布不断以“能量索取”为名强迫她性交,并告诉她,他“正在享受极乐的修行,以期在一生中获得觉悟”。但她感觉这不过是将女性当作满足自身性欲的工具。的确如此。任何男人,更何况是一位僧侣,竟然会认为以如此强迫、不尊重的方式将女性当作伴侣,是体验极乐或获得觉悟的途径,这真是令人悲哀,完全是愚昧且缺乏爱心之举! 事实上,根据我个人的经验,这种“强迫性的结合”与“神圣的男女能量结合”完全不同。 实际上,这些女性似乎在闭关之前都没有与噶玛拉布或卡登喇嘛有过任何深入的私人接触。如果她们有过这样的接触,她们就能更好地考察噶玛拉布,反之亦然,从而确保噶玛拉布(以及她们自己)都具备参加此类金刚乘闭关的条件,并且考验噶玛拉布是否是一位合格的金刚乘上师,以及是否具备她们所期望的上师品质(例如慈悲和爱)。在这种情况下,考察师徒关系至关重要,正如第十七世噶玛巴尊者最近对此进行的一些教导(Insert video…
IS THIS THE BUDDHIST BODHISATTVA ATTITUDE? Defensive public responses, resignations by Lama Yeshe Losal and Samye Ling/Dzong staff in response to calls for an investigation into abuse and misconduct at Samye Ling, concerns also raised about finance and donations expenditure, and ignoring the advice of 17th Karmapa
“May those who insult me to my face, Or cause me harm in any other way, Even those who disparage me in secret, Have the good fortune to awaken.”–Shantideva in Bodhisattva’s Way of Life “DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrong doing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for…
NOBLE MAITREYA’S “HEAVY BLESSINGS” AND HIS KING OF ASPIRATIONS: 12th Khenting Tai Situpa’s empowerment in Borobudur, Indonesia, new translation of “Maitreya’s Aspiration” and full oral commentary transcript of 12th Tai Situpa’s commentary on the Aspiration Prayer at the Kagyu Monlam, Bodh Gaya (2024)
“ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་དག་གི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། ། Throughout the pure realms of the ten directions, སངས་རྒྱས་མཆོད་པ་གང་བྱུང་བ། ། Whatever offerings are made to the awakened ones/Buddhas, སངས་རྒྱས་མཁྱེན་པས་ཡི་རང་བ། ། The buddhas know and rejoice. དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་ཡི་རང་ངོ༌། ། In that, I also rejoice.” –Verse from Noble Maitreya’s Aspiration “Buddhas do not vilify sentient beings who are suffering, who have afflictions. They do not despise…
The golden sun and silver-conch moon union “one mind” of 17th Gyalwang Karmapa and 12th Khenting Tai Situpa and the “liberation on seeing” statue (January 2026)
“The golden sun rises above,The silver-conch moon waxes from the side,When sun and moon come together,The murky fog of the four continents is cleared afar. Recently, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, and the Jamgon Dorje Chang,12th Khenting Tai Situ Rinpoche, were reunited. During this joyous reunion, they took a photograph together with the precious…
KNOWING WHAT IS MEANINGFUL AND BEING ABLE TO “DIE SMILING”: The four “destitutions”, the four misconceptions, “dancing shrimps” and enjoying others’ suffering, and full transcript of “Wisdom for a Meaningful Life” Day TWO by 12th Khenting Tai Situpa (Indonesia 2026: Part IV)
“The present is always an interdependent manifestation of everything else. The future cannot manifest the present. It is not so easy unless you are enlightened. But the past always manifests in the present. “ “So when you get bored, you just do meditation okay? Just sit. Boredom is very good. Get boredom, loneliness, it is…
THE PRIMORDIAL WISDOM THAT NATURALLY (RE)SOLVES ALL “PROBLEMS”: Report summary and full transcript of 12th Khentin Tai Situpa’s “Wisdom for a Meaningful Life” Day ONE (Indonesia 2026 Part III)
“If you are happy. I am happy. Right? I make you unhappy because I am not happy with you. Then you have your relatives, friends everywhere and they are all unhappy with me. So, that is a very ignorant way of doing things, because they do not know and recognize and believe in the ultimate…
VISITING THE ANCIENT ‘INDRA JEWEL’ JAVANESE MENDUT AND PAWON TEMPLES. The Śailēndra dynasty in Java, three original 9th Century Buddhist statues⁸ representing awakening, compassion and power, ,the stellar constellation straight line and new photos and visit to Pawon temple (Indonesia 2026: Part II)
“Candi Mendut is a reflection of the sublime and stupendous “Indrajal” of the Javanese people when they attained unprecedented heights of power, when literary genius blossomed in their language of Javanese, when they enriched their lovely island with monumental structures that evoke wonder after twelve centuries, even in their ruined state.” “Even now it…
BOROBUDUR AND GURU PADMASAMBHAVA WISDOM BLESSINGS: Report of Khenting 12th Tai Situpa’s opening ceremony of Palpung Graha Maha Padmasambhava centre, Borobudur pilgrimage visit and full transcript of Tai Situpa’s talk (Indonesia 2026: Part I)
“Indonesia is like a treasure, and like a garden in which all the great faiths and great religions of human being flourish and shine. Today is so special for all of us I think because of that great treasure of all the precious gems of knowledge, wisdom and faith, one more jewel is added today…
LIVING A DHARMA DREAM! YEAR IN REVIEW 2025: Translations, research, transcripts, travel, videos, music, talks and more
“Life is a journey, not the destination.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Introduction/Summary Looking back on the year 2025, as New Year 2026 quickly approaches, it has been a “jam-packed” 365 days full of Dharma creativity, research, translations, solo female travel pilgrimage, musical and video reels, political and historical observations, attending international Buddhist events in Vietnam and…
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