Christopher Hansard
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Date: May 25, 2007 07:17AM
I think we would be wise if we do wish to stop Mr Hansard, and I do wish to stop Mr Hansard from practising, if we stuck purely to matters of provable abuse. While psychic abuse no doubt does exist, and we are talking about Tibetan Buddhism, where the psychic phenomena is common, psychic abuse is not an arrestable offence. We stopped in burning witches a couple of centuries ago and our laws and are far more enlightened.
Let us stick to plain simple and provable sexual misconduct, sexual abuse and inappropriate sexual behaviour. These things are provable and they are also offences for which you can be arrested and put into jail. While all the other things are valid, and would seem to be commonplace in Tibetan Buddhist practice, they are not arrestable offences.
I thinks Jeffs skills would be better used actually addressing issues such as the 12 teachings and the northern treasures school rather than just dismissing them and shouting down anybody who disagrees with him on a technical point about Buddhism or Tibetan culture. Hansard claims to have a northern treasures school lineage, this lineage is mentioned by somebody in a book, therefore there is a possibility, and I am being very distinct at this point, not a probability that he could be or could have been taught by someone of this lineage. The argument saying this is not the case is counterproductive and plays into his hands, our resources are better spent actually finding somebody of this lineage, if it exists, and getting them to tell us that he had not been instructed in its methods.
Mr Bowe this is not a diatribe aimed at you, all I am doing is to seeking to use your considerable academic skills in stopping this man.
We should encourage anybody who has been abused by this man to come forward, we should treat them with compassion and respect and encourage them to make a complaint while supporting them through the process.
James