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If we chalk young Kalu Rinpoche's abuse up to the transgressions of his predecessor, and accept it as his "karma", then how do we explain the systemic sexual abuse of children in Tibetan monasteries? And Sri Lankan and Taiwan Buddhist monasteries? To blithely ascribe it to karma is letting an awful lot of people off the hook--an entire institutional system, in fact. If we put the blame where it belongs, not only on the abuser-monks but on the institutions that breed violence, obsession with power, and indifference to the suffering of others (numbness to the nightly screams of little boys), then we can clearly see the urgent need for reforms, if not for doing away with the institutions altogether.



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Here is an article that updates the information about Kalu Rinpoche, and also discusses the sense of abandonment that another young tulku, Gomo Tulku, felt when his mother left him in a monastery in Europe. Gomo Tulku has given back his robes to become a rapper. In one of his compositions, he speaks movingly about his longing for his mother and the life he knew prior to being taken to the monastery:

"All is gone, all is gone, I miss my mama's kiss/Tryna make a child grown/By leaving him alone/Destined to be on a throne/...why didn't you, why didn't you stay?" Gomo Tulku says he "had a hard time, not because of what I was given, but because of what was taken away."

In this article, Kalu Rinpoche clarifies that what he earlier had termed "sexual abuse" was, in fact, rape perpetrated routinely by a group of older monks. Another young tulku, this one based in New Jersey, chimes in to say that Kalu's courage in going public about systematic rape in the monasteries has awed the American-based tulku, who confesses for the first time that he was raped by his own tutor as a 5-year-old reincarnation newly-inducted to the monastery. Hopefully, Kalu Rinpoche's courage will inspire others to speak out and bring reforms throughout the Tibetan monastic system.

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