Conviction Buddhist institutions and contexts Buddhist institutions and lineages La Boulaye, Saône-et-Loire, France · 2018

France: lama at the Temple of a Thousand Buddhas sentenced to 12 years for raping disciples and their children

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

resident lama ('Lama Tempa') at the Kagyu Temple des Mille Bouddhas

Organization

Temple des Mille Bouddhas, La Boulaye (Kagyu)

Spiritual nexus

The victims were his disciples and children raised inside the temple community under his religious authority.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2018-12-19 · conviction and sentence

Cour d'assises de Saône-et-Loire, France. Karma Tshojay, a Bhutanese-origin lama known as Lama Tempa at the Kagyu 'Temple of a Thousand Buddhas' in La Boulaye, was convicted on 19 December 2018 of rapes and sexual assaults committed from the 1990s into the 2000s against four women — disciples or disciples' children, including a girl raped from age eleven and another molested at nine while living in the community — and sentenced to twelve years, with civil damages to each victim. A second monk tried alongside him was acquitted.

religious authority over disciples and children raised within the temple community

Primary record

national broadcaster court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Saône-et-Loire : un moine bouddhiste condamné à douze ans de prison pour viols', Europe 1, Dec. 2018.: National broadcaster's report of the assize verdict.
national broadcaster court reporting verdict report TRT World report on the conviction.: Independent international corroboration.

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