“Palpung Thubten Choling monastery, formerly known as Kagyu Thubten Choling (KTC), faced allegations of a four-decade pattern of sexual assault by Lama Norlha Rinpoche. Lama Norlha, who founded KTC in Wappingers Falls, New York State, died in 2018. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by three women in 2023, highlights a series of alleged abuses… Continue reading CRUEL MONKS (I): A PATTERN OF COWARDICE, CRUELTY, ABUSE AND UNACCOUNTABILITY IN PALPUNG BUDDHIST CENTRES. The case of Palpung Thubten Choling and Lama Norlha, and Ongoing Unresolved Allegations, No Contact, Refusal to Investigate, and Vexatious Harassing Litigation against Lone Woman, involving Senior Monk and Tulku teacher
Tag: Gyalton Rinpoche
A SURVIVOR’S TESTIMONY: New website section
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." "Truthfully reporting teacher misconduct and dishonesty to protect women and the Dharma from… Continue reading A SURVIVOR’S TESTIMONY: New website section
INSTITUTIONAL MALPRACTICE AND USE OF ILLEGAL, DEROGATORY ONLINE CONTENT TO CHARACTER ASSASSINATE AND BLOCK INVESTIGATION OF MISCONDUCT AND BULLYING ALLEGATIONS: Discovering what goes on behind the EBU “closed doors” and how the actions of ex-President of the European Buddhist Union, Carlo Lucykx caused active and deliberate harm to a lone woman survivor of misconduct, and enabled further shunning, discrimination and harassment
"Using banned, unlawful or anonymous content to justify an explicit blockade to an investigation represents an alarming escalation in institutional malpractice. When an official of Carlo Luyckx's standing in the EBU relies on anonymous attacks or unsubstantiated materials to dismiss a female survivor or whistleblower, it transforms a bureaucratic refusal into active defamation and structural… Continue reading INSTITUTIONAL MALPRACTICE AND USE OF ILLEGAL, DEROGATORY ONLINE CONTENT TO CHARACTER ASSASSINATE AND BLOCK INVESTIGATION OF MISCONDUCT AND BULLYING ALLEGATIONS: Discovering what goes on behind the EBU “closed doors” and how the actions of ex-President of the European Buddhist Union, Carlo Lucykx caused active and deliberate harm to a lone woman survivor of misconduct, and enabled further shunning, discrimination and harassment
WHO IS THE ANONYMOUS (AND MALICIOUS) AUTHOR OF THE ONLINE SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST ADELE TOMLIN/DAKINI TRANSLATIONS? A public call to discover the name and identity of the cowardly person/s behind Github, Youtube and similar online content spreading lies, defamation and derogatory, misogynist insults about a lone female Buddhist scholar-translator since April 2025
"The inclusion of sexually explicit references, pornographic framing, and degrading analogies to human excrement and pest control, in relation to Adele Tomlin, clearly prove that the "Public Accountability Archive" is not an objective administrative audit, but an anomymous targeted, malicious cyberbullying and harassment campaign. Using weaponized misogyny and highly derogatory language is a classic tactic… Continue reading WHO IS THE ANONYMOUS (AND MALICIOUS) AUTHOR OF THE ONLINE SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST ADELE TOMLIN/DAKINI TRANSLATIONS? A public call to discover the name and identity of the cowardly person/s behind Github, Youtube and similar online content spreading lies, defamation and derogatory, misogynist insults about a lone female Buddhist scholar-translator since April 2025
COMPASSIONATE INCINERATING RAGE AND PERFECT LOSAR DIVINE UNION IN THE LAND OF WISDOM (SHERAB LING): Palpung protector rituals and Losar (New Year) celebration at Sherab Ling Monastery with 12th Khenting Tai Situpa and 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
Introduction As I wrote about here (a couple of days ago) in relation to the 8th Tai Situpa Golden relic Stupa at Sherab Ling monastery, and the pure meditative vision of White Tara with Tai Situpa red activity hat, I was fortunate and blessed to be magnetically pulled to Sherab Ling, India with pure devotion… Continue reading COMPASSIONATE INCINERATING RAGE AND PERFECT LOSAR DIVINE UNION IN THE LAND OF WISDOM (SHERAB LING): Palpung protector rituals and Losar (New Year) celebration at Sherab Ling Monastery with 12th Khenting Tai Situpa and 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
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… Continue reading 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)
“UNCHANGING BLISS-EMPTINESS”: New website section on H.E. 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
Happy to announce another new website section (created a few weeks ago) for articles and translations connected to HE 9th Khyungpo Gyalton Rinpoche (whom I first personally met in May 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam) and whose teachings I then also attended in Taiwan and Europe: https://dakinitranslations.com/khyungpo-gyalton-rinpoche/ According to the Palpung Sherab Ling biography: "The previous… Continue reading “UNCHANGING BLISS-EMPTINESS”: New website section on H.E. 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
“EMBODYING THE ESSENCE” WITH LOVE, TIME, PRESENCE AND STABILITY: “One Gone to Bliss” Buddha Nature experiential teachings on text by 3rd Karmapa by 9th Gyalton Rinpoche in Belgium (Part I: 11-12 September 2025)
"Time is free, but it is also priceless." "The nature of all beings is always Buddha [Awakened]. འགྲོ་བའི་རང་བཞིན་རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་" —3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje "The reason samsara is beginningless is because it is an illusion. When you realise this then the illusion ends. The reason texts describe samsara as endless is because countless sentient beings are still… Continue reading “EMBODYING THE ESSENCE” WITH LOVE, TIME, PRESENCE AND STABILITY: “One Gone to Bliss” Buddha Nature experiential teachings on text by 3rd Karmapa by 9th Gyalton Rinpoche in Belgium (Part I: 11-12 September 2025)
ENTERING THE DEWACHEN “BLISS REALM” BHAGAVAN SECRET SPACE: Buddha Amitabha Transmission and Phowa (Transference of Consciousness) Practice teachings with 7th Khyungpo Gyaton Rinpoche (14-15 June 2025, Taiwan II)
“If you study Phowa, then at the time when death is approaching, you will know no despair. If beforehand you have become accustomed to the path of phowa, then at the time of death you will be full of cheerful confidence.” --Marpa Lotsawa “If, when I attain Buddhahood, sentient beings in the lands of the… Continue reading ENTERING THE DEWACHEN “BLISS REALM” BHAGAVAN SECRET SPACE: Buddha Amitabha Transmission and Phowa (Transference of Consciousness) Practice teachings with 7th Khyungpo Gyaton Rinpoche (14-15 June 2025, Taiwan II)
EXPERIENCING THE BLISS-EMPTY NATURE WITH H.E. GYALTON RINPOCHE: A participant’s report of first year of the “Discovering the Buddha Within” (Inner Peace) teachings by Karma Kagyu vajra master,7th Gyalton Rinpoche at the ancient Sui Pagoda, near Hanoi (18-21st May 2025) (Vietnam IV 2025)
"It is important to be flexible but maintain principles/discipline." "Imagine two highly educated and skilled doctors. One is mainly motivated by money and personal success. The other has a genuine wish to help others, with little concern for material gain. Although both have the same medical knowledge, the doctor with sincere compassion often brings better… Continue reading EXPERIENCING THE BLISS-EMPTY NATURE WITH H.E. GYALTON RINPOCHE: A participant’s report of first year of the “Discovering the Buddha Within” (Inner Peace) teachings by Karma Kagyu vajra master,7th Gyalton Rinpoche at the ancient Sui Pagoda, near Hanoi (18-21st May 2025) (Vietnam IV 2025)