Lest anyone think that Buddhism is a kinder better faith than the Jehovah/Allah faiths, think again
https://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,101542,102021
Tibetan Buddhist monasteries accept children from 7 years of age and up as novices to receive a Buddhist education and eventually become monks. Once admitted to the monastery, the boys are not allowed to leave and return to lay life until they are 21, which is considered the age at which the are able to make responsible decisions about their lives. If they try to escape and return to their families for any reason, they are hunted down by "warrior monks" and forcibly returned to the monasteries. According to an eyewitness account by a lama in the Tibetan tradition, and to a Public Television report in the US in the late 1990's, it is common for the little boys to suffer sexual abuse and rape for years by the older celibate monks. As can be expected, many of the boys are severely traumatized, and many leave the monasteries in their early 20's. In the secular world, however, they are only qualified for the most menial jobs, because the education in the monasteries only covers Tibetan calligraphy, reading and basic math,
For more detailed info see Michael Parenti's article on the whole Tibet Myth http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
And even Main Stream Media has admitted that the Dali Lama is a CIA asset https://geopolitics.co/2016/12/19/mainstream-media-confirm-dalai-lama-is-a-cia-asset/
While I know many good people who do good stuff because they take the best their religion teaches to heart, the organizations of religion are generally evil and many of the leaders, pastors, rabbi's, priests, monks etc use their position, respect and power to take advantage of others.
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TreeKnot ago
Not saying this is true or isn’t true, however this tradition exists only in tibet, and has no bearing on Buddhism in other countries, however one thing is puzzling and that is why havent we heard from copious victims? Also my guess is that if this was really happening, the families and friends of the abused would be in the streets protesting and shouting to the hills about this, at least this is my humble opinion.
I would like to be careful, because the main religions are trying to remove the heat from themselves and start pointing in other directions even if falsely...i would be very careful to make these serious allegations without concrete evidence and proof...and im not talking about one or two articles and one you tube video....i mean real victim testimonials, court hearings etc....
If you can supply this information it would be most appreciated.
I know for sure if monks did this in Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka the monks would get beaten and tortured and thrown in prison very quickly because the lay people wouldn’t tolerate it at all.
Also - we fail to talk about Buddhism in the US, Australia and the West generally, and there has been very little if anything at all on child abuse by Buddhist monks which goes to show that even if there is a chance of this happening it is isolated and not spread across the entire culture like Christianity, Judaism and Islam....we know for sure about this....
think- ago
I don't know about other forms of Buddhism, but this has been definitely a problem in Tibetan buddhism.
Tibetan buddhism has been heavily influenced by the pre-buddhism shamanic bon / bön religion, absorbing many aspects of its tradition.
The teachings of tantric left-hand-path Tibetan buddhism are plain evil.
Doeing evil (as opposed to doing good in other Buddhist traditions) is, according to their thinking, also fulfilling the will of god, in a way you even have to do evil things "to keep the balance" between good and evil. (That's the common demeaneour in all left-hand-path traditions, like the Luciferian tradition HRC and buddies follow, which also has a strong emphasis on "sex magick".)
Were there any catholics out in the streets 'protesting and shouting the hills' about child abuse in the Church 20 years ago? Are there are any today in great numbers?
No, there aren't. As in any other religion - no matter which - there is a BIG taboo regarding the raping of minors by clergy / monks / nuns. One reason why many Tibetan children are given to the monks is the poverty of their families, which adds to the difficulty of speaking out for the victims as they appear to be not grateful for what their familiy has done to ensure a good upbringing.
And Tibetan buddhism was, before the Chinese took over, a theocracy. This is why still today the Dalai Lama is not only the highest representative of Tibetan buddhism, but the exiled head of state for Tibetans.
Religious power plus political power = doubled authority, doubled difficulty to oppose TPTB and coming forward as a victim.