Author - Rob Hogendoorn

The latest speculation about the Dalai Lama’s withdrawal of his signature on the open letter...

For years, I’ve followed the same protocol when victims and survivors approached me directly...

Victims and survivors of sexually abusive Buddhist teachers seek out various forms of help. Some...

These days, Tenzin Peljor calls himself a ‘freelance monk.’ He’s a council-member...

The stated position of the German Buddhist Union (DBU) on the documentary ‘Buddhism: The...

The German Buddhist Union (DBU) has responded to the documentary ‘Buddhism: The Unspeakable...

Matthieu Ricard suggests that to address or reddress abuse [my translation from the...

Since I began investigating sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers, I’ve filed 24 dossiers on 24...

The first abuse case I published was that of a South-Tyrolean skipper who turned himself into a...

Matthieu Ricard lives in denial and is in dire need of a less myopic education. Perhaps...

In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos present their...

Being ‘the happiest man alive’ is one hell of a job. Matthieu Ricard built a career out of its...

It’s instructive to watch Western yea- and naysayers exchange contorted reasonings, routinely...

In 2019, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) thought it was appropriate to honour Sogyal Lakar...

These days, the ‘happiest man alive‘ isn’t so happy. Look at how concerned...

Inveterate apologists of the Dalai Lama (b. 1935) tend to consistently overlook some easy-to-check...

After it was first published that Ösel Tendzin, the ‘Vajra Regent’ appointed by...

September 13th, 2022 the network Arte (France, Germany) will broadcast a documentary by French...

In 2012, I came across the first Buddhist sexual abuse case I’ve reported. A pleasure...

I’m glad that online forums like Diffi•Cult exist. They offer a window to observe assertive...

Tenzin Peljor (also known as Tenpel and Michael Jäckel) now writes: “I have a question to...

On July 7, 2022 Tenzin Peljor (also known as Tenpel and Michael Jäckel) published a blogpost by a...

Dutch ‘tantra masseur’ Edwin M. lost his appeal today against a conviction for sexually...

Among the earliest interactions of the Dalai Lama with scientists is his meeting with physicist...

A worn-out cliché, falsely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, says: “The greatness of a nation...

‘Unfortunately, there’s a whole cultural phenomenon now, which is going very fast, in...

Speculation runs rife that the 16th Karmapa (b. 1924 d. 1981) abused an American woman, Kathy...

So, let me get this straight: According to Tenpel (aka Tenzin Peljor or Michael Jäckel), the...

There is no factual basis for Tibetan exceptionalism: Tibetans are a people like any other, Tibetan...

To mark the launch of the revised and updated second edition of Sex and Violence in Tibetan...

In 2014, shortly before the state visit to the Netherlands by the Chinese president Xi Jinping and...

In 2014, the open access, peer-reviewed journal Religions published my paper on the Dalai...

A sizeable part of my work is exceedingly boring but, ultimately, very rewarding. For instance, I...

These days, the fourteenth Dalai Lama loses no time in telling spiritual devotees of inveterate and...

Present-day Lamaism, the worship of deified Tibetan Buddhist teachers by gullible Western converts...

The Charity Commission for England and Wales chastises the Rigpa Fellowship in the United Kingdom...

Early 2009, the World Ethical Foundations Consortium cancelled the fourteenth Dalai Lama’s...

During the fourteenth Dalai Lama’s tour of the United States of America and Europe in 2014...

In 2004, some years after I stopped participating in a Tibetan Buddhist study programme that was...

In 2006, I came across the text of Alexander Berzin’s advice to Tibetan monastics of the...

In 1982, Daniel Bärlocher published the two volumes of his groundbreaking dissertation Testimonies...

In 1982, Franz Michael published Rule by Incarnation: Tibetan Buddhism and its Role in Society and...

In 1983, Glenn Mullin published his translation of the Third Dalai Lama’s ‘Essence of...

On September 17, 2018, the fourteenth Dalai Lama spoke to an audience of thousands in Rotterdam...

A handful of Buddhist journalists had every reason to investigate Gerhard Mattioli’s launch...

Today, on International Women’s Day, Oane Bijlsma publishes a self-penned story about her...

On February 23, 2020 the board of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) forwarded the minutes...

The board of the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) drums up Dutch Rigpa chairman Jeroen...

I was privy to a disturbing incident the other day. It involved Michael Ritman, a Dutch devotee of...