When Wisdom is Obscured by Devotion

This excerpt from my book Fallout: Recovering from Abuse in Tibetan Buddhism (AIA Publishing, July 20, 2019) describes how certain ‘teachings’ and spiritual ‘instructions’ can become beliefs that obscure reality.

In July 2017, eight formerly close students of Tibetan Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche sent a letter to him and his students detailing the emotional, physical and sexual abuse they’d…