Dagri Rinpoche Denies of All Sexual Assaults Allegations

May 14, 2019

A prominent Tibetan lama, Dagri Rinpoche, currently based in Dharamshala has claimed innocence of sexual assaults allegations by issuing a statement on Monday. The senior Tibetan lama has been accused of the case by two different women from totally different contexts; one on 3rd May this year during a flight and the other from a 2008 incident.

While a co-passenger from Air India flight from New Delhi to Dharamshala made a police complaint against Dagri Rinpoche on arrival in Dharamshala earlier this month, police initially detained him and later freed him on bail. The woman co-passenger has alleged that he touched the woman’s body inappropriately.

According to Dagri Rinpoche’s statement, the woman has misunderstood the situation. While he was trying to putting back something into his bag in the overhead luggage cabin, he had supported his hand on the arm rest of the seat where the woman was seated, she woke up in the midst speaking something at him angrily. Since the rinpoche did not understood Hindi or English properly, he shifted to a back seat when the woman kept speaking at him.

With regard to allegations from a former Spanish student of him molesting her, the statement explains that he performed some religious rituals to cure physical and mental problems with which she approached him for blessing in 2008. When the Spanish woman accused him of molestation after three years, they had met along with six witnesses to clarify the truth. He says in the statement that he has done nothing wrong to feel ashamed of.

“From my side, I have never committed a misdeed like this to feel ashamed of. I do not hold any grudge, anger, or expectation toward those who have made these baseless allegations and have accused me of misdeeds that I did not commit.” says Dagri Rinpoche in the statement.

Dagri Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Pari Dorje Chang, a teacher of Lama Yeshe — co-founder of the Friends for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). He travels for the FPMT and is an advisor for Sravasti Abbey in Washington State.

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Editor TJ

Editor at Tibetan Journal, News/Reviews/Opinions

3 responses to “Dagri Rinpoche Denies of All Sexual Assaults Allegations”

ramesh

May 14, 2019

lama la tell it to the court, not on the air for Denying, the time has been changed. now the Tibetan administration travel to Europe could be trouble now

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Tenzin Dekyi

May 15, 2019

This can be a strategy of the communist China to decimate the name of His holiness the kundun. Since the Indian govt has introduced certain strict laws against any crime towards the woman of India, the communist China might has used it as a weapon against the defaming the Tibetans. I am not a law student but I strongly feel the students practicing law should come up and suggest him ways on fighting back with those two ladies. Why was she silent for 3 years and what made her suddenly raise her voice out of no where. I am not saying that girls should not raise their voice against molestation and harassment but it should be done when it has happened and not to kept in refrigerator to freeze and open up after the incidence has rotten up completely.
I am sure that the rinpoche is innocent and if his proved innocent I urge him that he files back a case on both the two ladies. A lesson to be taught to all the woman that the laws has been created to protect the womanhood and not to be used against any man for her own personal advantages.

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Jakaira Perez Valdivia

May 16, 2019

Hello, this is my public response to Dagri, FPMT, Seraje Tsawa Khangtse:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_bL8oC4QtUThsGuIlXDDNdv5Q95Gl-cF

Three names were omitted due to privacy reasons

Best regards

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