Siinä on mielenkiintoista tietoa naiveille eurooppalaisille tai länsimaisille henkilöille, kuten että Bhutanissa jaetaan tai on jaettu kondomeja luostarissa opiskeleville munkeille, jotta HIV:n leviäminen saataisiin estetyksi.
"In a 2013 article in Elephant Journal, a veteran of the Tibetan refugee scene wrote an article that led off with the startling fact that Bhutanese health authorities were distributing condoms at all Buddhist monastic schools to “stem the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV among young monks who are supposed to be celibate.” The author then recounts the Kalu Rinpoche story quoted above, adding that when she interviewed Kalu, he clearly stated that he had been raped by multiple monks so often that it became routine. She also reports that his “claims of sexual abuse mirror those of Lodoe Senge, an ex-monk and 23-year-old tulku who now lives in Queens, New York [and] was abused, he says, as a 5-year-old by his own tutor, a man in his late twenties, at a monastery in India.”[146] The article relates two other first-person stories of children suffering abuse at the hands of Tibetan Buddhist monks. The first is drawn from “The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering,” that recounts how the author “was taken from his family near Drepung at 13 and forced into the Dalai Lama’s personal dance troupe. Severely beaten by his teachers there for minor infractions, Tsering (a heterosexual) was then raped by a well-connected monk (and other ‘official monks’) in exchange for protection, becoming a passive sex-toy or dronpo (Tib: guest).”
Uskonko kuitenkin että valaistuminen ja/tai korkeampi henkinen tieto on olemassa? Kyllä, olen edelleen sillä kannalla.
