Ricardo Mendes(VI)
Sexual abuses, mental manipulation and embezzlement: Tibetan Buddhism is shaken by serious scandals. An in-depth account that lifts the veil on the nonspiritual underbelly of a religion venerated in Europe.
His name is Ricardo Mendes and, as a young man, he lived through hell in a Buddhist community in Castellane, far from the ideal of wisdom advocated by its founder, Robert Spatz. Now in search of justice and having constituted himself as a civil party in a lawsuit, Ricardo tells how the Belgian lama incited his disciples to abandon their offspring to him, leaving the field free. Physical abuse, deprivation of food and freedom or rape of girls were the daily lot of unprotected children.
Ricardo Mendes is the spokesperson of the OKCinfo Justice Initiative, a group formed by ex-OKC born kids that decided to unite and go to Justice to drag Robert Spatz alias Lama Kunzang to jail.
His name is Ricardo Mendes and, as a young man, he lived through hell in a Buddhist community in Castellane, far from the ideal of wisdom advocated by its founder, Robert Spatz. Now in search of justice and having constituted himself as a civil party in a lawsuit, Ricardo tells how the Belgian lama incited his disciples to abandon their offspring to him, leaving the field free. Physical abuse, deprivation of food and freedom or rape of girls were the daily lot of unprotected children.
Ricardo Mendes is the spokesperson of the OKCinfo Justice Initiative, a group formed by ex-OKC born kids that decided to unite and go to Justice to drag Robert Spatz alias Lama Kunzang to jail.