Christopher Hansard
Date: May 23, 2007 04:39AM
Firstly, you will not be aware that prior to 1995 there was no Tibetan Bonpo in the UK, I know this for a fact. Indeed even now there are only four Tibetan Bonpos in the country, so I do not know exactly to which 'community' you refer. Secondly the majority of Bonpo are based in Tibet, those in exile live in scattered and isolated locations in the Himalayan foothills of India and Nepal, far away from the well-oiled deceptions Hansard engineered in Kensington and Chelsea. Would you inform me which Tibetans were working or associated with Hansard during the years when the reported abuse was taking place? If you have any firm information on this please do inform me and I assure you here publicly I will take this matter up to the relevant Tibetan authorities. Until such time as you are able to clarify that, would I be correct in concluding that it was not Tibetans, Bon or Buddhist, who were prostrating at the feet of Hansard, whilst clients were being abused?
I understand fully that these are sensitive issues, but those around Hansard who are in possession of a conscience would question their role, their lack of challenge, their silence, approval, and evaluate if they can be considered complicit in the reported catalogue of abuse, which was inflicted upon clients as 'Dur-Con'. It is a convenient excuse, and a denial of personal responsibility, to rationalize such inaction by projecting upon Hansard a range of 'dark arts', 'cosmic powers', and 'hypnotic energy' that rendered, intelligent human beings into compliant unthinking automata. As I sugested previously, it is highly unlikley that these apparent abuses were committed in a vacuum of ignorance, particularly given the number of years it seemingly occured. Somebody knew the story and kept their mouth shamefully shut, and I do not have any respect or support for such collusion, no matter how exotic or rarified the excuses. My sympathies are given to those who reportedly suffered as a result of Hansard, and to the genuine Bon culture of Tibet which he abused and exploited.