[Buddha-l] Crisis in the rinpoche industry

[Christopher Fynn]

This particular case may be in the news because FPMT - the leadership of 
which Osel Tenzin was more or less in-line to inherit -  is a large 
international organisation.

However Osel Tenin is only the latest of a number of western tulku kids 
whose parents left them to be brought up in Tibetan monasteries who, on 
reaching an age and circumstances enabling them to make their own 
choices, have decided to do something else. It seems quite a few of them 
do eventually drift back to being lamas of one sort or another, perhaps 
more on their own terms ~ this may be because they are not educated for 
anything else or that find they miss being a star.

I have heard disturbing first hand accounts from a couple of these tulku 
kids, and also from parents of such children, of being abused in 
monasteries. When this has happened, their confusion is not surprising.


- Chris