Q&A [2] – Audience with a senior Palyul official Two Pathgate ex-members were granted an audience with a senior Palyul lineage holder in 2018 to seek clarification and advice regarding their experience in Pathgate. Identities have been withheld due to the sensitivity of the matter. The Palyul Rinpoche spoke in Tibetan and his replies to our questions were translated by an attendant.
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Q&A - Misuse of "Rinpoche" title, fake generosity, sexual exploitation history The following Q&A is repurposed from enquiries to the Pathgate Survivors blog. The answers cover important points that is beneficial for current and ex-members of Pathgate who wish to make sense of their experience. Names and details have been changed to protect identities. Questions: I fee
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Isabel was a Pathgate member for 11 years, lured into it at 18 years old and leaving several years ago. She has begun sharing her story publicly on social media about the exploitation and abuse she experienced there, as well as her subsequent exit and recovery journey. She was better known in the Pathgate community as "Chokyi Lhamo". This is the first time a Pathgate victim is speaki
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Hello to all readers, i would like to hear from you if anyone of you had any encounters with Dondrup Rinpoche that were of the SEXUAL nature. For i strongly suspect him of giving so much effort in longterm character assasination towards me were literal attempts to destroy me. I have an idea that he may have been very jealous of my sexual nature, the tools and stamina i('m supposed to)
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Without a doubt, Dondrup is the most unforgiving and revenge orientated person i have ever known. And lama Dondrups' methods are the most violent and destructive i have ever seen anywhere. With a LOT of devious underhand pretentious cunning arguements that he uses to abuse his (past) students for a long-time. It is like a forever rant of destructive behaviour he undertakes against people
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Hello, As i was seeking for my own page -abuse by a "lama" (who) named (himself) "Ven Lama Dondrup Dorje"- i saw this question topic, and i want to respond to this question directly. The answer is YES! This is ABSOLUTELY TRUE! And here what is stated here: "Assaultive Projective Identification and the Plundering of the Victim's Identity" EXACTLY th
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“Lisa’s” Testimony The following text has been slightly edited for improved readability. “Lisa” has requested anonymity. She reports leading a wonderful life with a satisfying career. She describes her life as joyful, purposeful, and with much reason for deep gratitude. Seeing herself as absolutely a spiritual person, Lisa continues to grow her spiritual awareness in healthier and more auth
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I withdraw from here. I can no longer continue worrying about this. For me its a choice weather i want to be living or dying, and i want to live im not supposed to die at only 34 years of age. I am utterly assaulted and i feel like they really dont care about my health. I dont know why its so tough but its the way it is. I must be very kind to myself now and do A LOT MORE to improve b
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He was often in Singapore right? I have asked a temple related to HH Pema Norbu Rinpoche/Karma Kuchen in Singapore (Palyul Nyingma Lineage) if they knew ven. lama Dondrup Dorje. No one knew him... They have a facebook website. Just use the search engine Palyul Nyingma Singapore, something like that. Please try it for yourself. They may have not continued on answering me, because i m
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About our "master of root assault", i got one thing to dd: Often have i been complaining about the stuff they would be doing to my "fluids", but it actually has way more to do with the 5 winds of the body - and consciousness, known as Tsalung. This is how this kind of, idiotic maniacs such as Dondrup, and idiots who seek revenge and thus manipulate these 5 winds of other
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Hi friends, I would like to continue talking about the root chakra, the "everything we have", the most important of all. Literally the basis of everything. You MUST read in the previous last message of mine this link to understand better what i.. AM going through. These guys have been DIGGING in my root 'like forever'.. And have assaulted members of my family too. A
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Hello guys, Anon and Powerful Woman of Eternity, I want to give great thanks for your contributions on this educational forum. It give me deeper insight in PY/Dondrup's undescribed/hidden/not talked about background. Especially his past on sexual activities. Thus how he seems to somehow express his great frustration on sexuality towards me, in the way he have been assaulting me for a long
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Hi Karma, I'm writing this publically because it may help others. What you are describing here is part of the experience of surviving a cult. You are doing your best to make sense of the experiences you have had. That's good. However, you can't do it alone. All of us need help to do that. The best thing you can do for your road to freedom is to find someone with qualific
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as a response to my last message, Just in case if i leave my number, maybe call (or text) it in a year or 3-4, just to check if i am still alive. (Please take good of yourself. Had to delete your phone number, which you posted here. It is against the message board rules for us to provide personal contact information in our message board posts. We can always use the PM (private message system
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Grateful am i, to all who persevere in proving the wicked ways this lama Dondrup has described himself to. Do not be afraid of what i am about to say here but, I am slightly convinced that he has caused death to one of my past teachers, and besided that more people, i think even Kunzang's father. He has said things that hinted me towards DONDRUPS RESPONSIBILITY for the Death of Kunzang'
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PY is not a "Rinpoche" We would like to inform the public that Yeung Leung Fong AKA Peter Yeung / Young (PY) has recently begun to style himself as “Lama Dondrup Dorje Rinpoche. I was a direct witness in 2011 when an ex-follower familiar with Tibetan Buddhist traditions and customs caught PY out for attempting claim himself as a "Rinpoche" and clarified the matter with s
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PY the martial arts teacher Many thanks to anon27 for his comprehensive debunking of PY’s supposed claim of superiority and teaching ability in martial arts (and by extension, Buddhism), in response to a question from me. It is important and beneficial for ex-students’ recovery. Text has been slightly edited to correct typos and maintain anonymity. Dear anon27, In the forum you state
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Chime, I salute your bravery! Great to have you with us. Every individual coming forward shares strength with us all. Thank you. In turn I hope you know all of us freedom fighters empathise deeply, and send you masses of good wishes and just huge positivity. It’s only after years that I understood that PY's influence was bullshit. Thank you for saying it so clearly. One day, if you&#
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I was shock by how all disciple respected,served, and address PY as Rinpoche from cup of tea to meal serving desserts is so up to scale as serving a holy master. We used to call py as Sifu. Over the years the center have since added lots of new faces especially beautiful young kids th came all over the globe. During the retreat the disciples are not allow to chit chat.But the impression from
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Hello Beth, and others I must say, I recognise. The story about him hitting on a girl in 2005 in a retreat time being close to Penor Rinpoche's? It all makes sense. More and more sense. I can tell you Beth, that He is an astral travellor and/or projector, and does TRICKS to cause people to behave TOTALLY different than normal for them. So rigidly strict in his teaching, but he
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I have wondered over the years why Peter Yeung (PY) didn’t have more students from his local area in Newcastle, or the UK for that matter; international students make up the bulk of his current following. PY brainwashed these students by explaining that locals lack the merit to learn from around an authentic lama. But a simple examination would reveal the more straightforward truth — locals ha
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Hello guys, been a while! Sorry for that.. I would like to elaborate little bit on this message that was written here: "When there was a Kung Fu picnic, the skies cleared up before the picnic and then got cloudy after the picnic. He did all sorts of Tai Chi and Kung Fu demonstrations. In one of his demonstrations which lasted for an hour he had his special students surround him and try
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PY barred from entering Australia After more than a decade of illegally teaching religion and receiving money from Australians, sources have reported to us that “Lama” Dondrup Dorje A.K.A. Peter Young (PY) has been barred from entering Australia during his attempted entry in January 2019. PY was stopped by the Australian Border Force for trying to enter the country as a visitor on a UK pass
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This is a message from a former student of Peter Young's, posted on the Pathgate Survivors webwsite: I’d like to tell you about Peter Y the Martial Artist, (I must apologise as I’m not the most educated but I’m trying to make this readable) My name is John and in the late 70’s I read a magazine article about Tai Chi (I believed it and wanted to know more,). My best friend’s wife traine
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This is a very interesting project many survivors of abuse in Buddhist communities, including survivors of PY and Pathgate, are contributing to: Dr. Miriam Anders from the LMU University in Munich, Germany is conducting a three year research, financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Part of the research is also to examine possible harm individuals have experienced in Buddhis
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From the growing number of ex-students coming together, we have mounting testimonies and evidence on PY's misuse of Buddhism to advance his personal agenda and to abuse students. We have set up a website to include information to educate everyone on Peter Yeung's (PY), and to provide resources to help ex-students recover from the their traumatic time in Pathgate. We would like
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I represent a growing number of ex-students of Lama Dondrup Dorje (Peter Yeung / Young) from Pathgate Institute of Buddhist Studies headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Some of us were long-time committed and devoted students who have left or forced out of his community due to his pattern of ethical misconduct over the past 30 years. Following recent revelations about other teachers who
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To update a link that seems to have gone down, the reference to Pathgate and PY being recognised as: "'maximum' on the Group Psychological Abuse Scale, characterized by absolutely indefensible misbehavior and violation of the common vows of Vajrayana Buddhism ... a clear and present danger to its membership, and to society at large. They are to be regarded as an openly notorious
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I was there when PY was given his PhD, which prompted him to call himself "Dr Young" for several years (as referred to in the above post), until he found himself a new title (Lama). The PhD was given to him by a Chinese friend of his who ran some kind of education establishment in the USA. If you know something about education in the USA you will know that these establishments basic
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I’ve extracted relevant quotes from the other thread on Peter Young to give easier access. The full thread can be found here: Posted by: howi () Date: September 15, 2005 10:05PM ... ... runs this program ... Once I got up there it became clear that these people think he has supernatural abilities. ... He was certainly good at brainwashing his students. They worshipped the man. He wore
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