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Dilan Yesilgöz denkt dat criminaliteit bestrijden hetzelfde is als de rechtsstaat beschermen. Of doet alsof ze het verschil niet weet, wat nog erger is. #domrechts
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This AI generated cover alludes to the Christian motif of the lamb and the lion. Apparently, EBU bigwigs believe that Buddhism will turn lions into vegetarians. Not even the Dalai Lama managed to do that! cdn.sanity.io/files/vbitqo...
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French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
The Dalai Lama’s Silence: Update 21 June 2025. openbuddhism.org/blog/2023/th...
Slovenian media report that EBU-member ‘Shenpen Rinpoche’ was arrested in France
The Dutch networks NOS and Omroep Brabant and Open Buddhism investigated a long-standing conflict over the governance of the Buddharama temple in Waalwijk, the Netherlands. This complex dispute directly involves the Royal Thai Embassy in The Hague.
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On International Women’s Day 2020, Oane Bijlsma published a self-penned story about her time with Sogyal Rinpoche († 2019) and his entourage. Her essay captures Bijlsma’s insider’s perspective on the events she observed up close.
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‘Codes of conduct’ mean little when the culture of silence remains the same. Indeed, they are a problem because they provide a false sense of security. ‘Wanting’ to prevent, address, and remedy abuse is clearly not enough to actually prevent, address and remedy abuse.
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… Even the confidential advisers played along: their annual reports from 2019 onwards repeat by rote a recommendation to those lagging behind to get in line.’
… However, this self-imposed, strong-sounding obligation on members was immediately flouted. Year after year, long after the statutory deadlines had passed, the board and general meetings found that groups of members had still not fulfilled this obligation. …
… henceforth, all members had to introduce a code of ethics and refer to the BUN’s external confidential advisers on their websites.’
‘In 2019, four years after widespread publicity shook the BUN out of its obvious unwillingness to act as a “moralist,” the members imposed a new obligation on themselves in its statutes and by-laws: ….
Buddhist Union’s Cultural Relativism and Moral Leniency Increase Risk of Long-term Abuse
