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Posted on 04/13/2023 6:01:16 AM PDT by Morgana
An Oregon woman has sued an influential Buddhist monk and trusted mentor over a litany of alleged sexual offenses including rape and pressuring her to keep an unwanted pregnancy.
Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, who also goes by Choying Rabjam, also allegedly asked her to sit in his lap and 'suck his tongue like a lollipop,' echoing accusations against the Dalai Lama earlier this week.
Rachel Montgomery, now 30, has filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual battery and sex trafficking in 2011, when she was just 19 years old.
The two met when Montgomery was a teenager who studied under him at the Dzogchen Retreat Center in Eugene.
Montgomery alleges that Choga, as he is known, would continuously use their student-teacher relationship to make unwanted sexual advances, eventually allegedly raping her inside a Buddhist temple when she was 21.
She also claims that Choga, now 58, pressured her to get drunk before he sexually to the point where she was 'barely conscious' when he assaulted her and ordered her to, much like the Dalai Lama asked a child to do, suck his tongue for 'tantric empowerment.'
'I feel like Buddhism was weaponized to take advantage of me,' Montgomery said to The Daily Beast. 'I don't want to say that it gets weaponized for everyone. But for me, it was weaponized.'
She says that while she was barely conscious, she remembers Choga's body on top of her and his long hair on her face.
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Are you sure her name wasn’t Candy?
You know I look back at myself at age 21 and I was not as smart as I am now.
Then again how many FReepers here can say that too?
We are all now older and wiser.
With that said this “sucking of the tongue” thing seems to be very common among Buddhists.
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I don’t think we can characterize all Buddhists just from 2 examples. It’s too few a sample
Sounds like had a troubled childhood, who was a young woman looking for a stable relationship, fell in with a an unscrupulous religious charlatan when she was 19, had a relationship with him for a while - and now regrets it.
Second time I’ve heard of that in a week from the same cult.
We know it’s a cult. That’s enough.
I remember when the Beatles went to India in ‘68 to meditate with the Maharishi. That ended when the Maharishi made unwanted advances to some of the women attendees, including Mia Farrow. Lennon wrote “Sexy Sadie” in response.
But even at 21 I wasn’t that dumb
Bodhisattva, would you take me by the hand.
I saw tons of them when I was in Nepal. Most were very snooty and thought they were ‘enlightened’.
She looks to have good genetics, enough for a monk to break his vows, but what’s the defect on her lip? That looks venereal. That’s modern woo-men for you.
I’m gonna sell my house in town.
LOL
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