Nepal: self-styled tulku convicted of raping a woman held at his monastery for over nine years
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self-styled tulku and spiritual guru operating a monastery
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The complainant was kept at the monastery under the defendant's claimed authority as a reincarnate lama for over nine years — an extreme and sustained instance of religious authority producing captivity.
- Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
- Threatened spiritual consequence
- Institutional obedience or isolation
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2024-01-01 · conviction and sentence
Patan High Court, Nepal. A self-styled Buddhist spiritual guru known as Tulku Lama (Rinpoche Chhulthim Dorje Yontan Yongaj) was convicted of rape by the Patan High Court and sentenced to seven years. The court heard the victim had been held at a monastery he operated for more than nine years and raped repeatedly.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- claimed status as a reincarnate lama
- sustained confinement at the monastery he ran
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Sources
- national newspaper court reporting verdict report 'Spiritual guru Tulku Lama convicted of rape', The Himalayan Times.
Nepal's English-language paper of record reporting the Patan High Court conviction and the years of confinement at the monastery.
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- https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/spiritual-guru-tulku-lama-convicted-of-rape Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-report. SHA-256 061caf475c2069117f1ce626aaa32b080b78fb49704d5c808d2af25113cd7fa0
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