Judgment on International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)

CASE 44-2018: International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)

ETHICAL JUDGMENT

Dear Prosecutor, Public Defender, Ambassador, Secretary and Jury Members of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR), with regards to Case 44-2018 against "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)", on May 27, 2018, it is hereby recorded that the trial has been concluded to analyze the violation of Human Rights and of Buddhist Ethics carried out by the accused party. This Case has been carried out as a consequence of the previous Cases of Ashin Wirathu, Myanmar, State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, Lama Lobzang, Sogyal Rinpoche & Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

After the analysis of the presentation of the Case and the validation of the evidence, it has proceeded with the votes of 7 members of the Jury, confirming that the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)" received 7 votes which consider it as Responsible for the serious crimes of Violation of International Human Rights Law and Violation of International Buddhist Law.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has been able to prove that the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)" has provided impunity and has not punished its criminal members, such as Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa, Lama Lobzang, Sogyal Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. In the first place, because of his direct participation in social segregation and the Myanmar's extermination against the Rohingya People, Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa of the IBC has been found Responsible for Complicity with Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, Crimes against Humanity and Peace, Violation of the Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, Violation of Freedom of Expression, Violation of the rights of women and children, Complicity with Discrimination, Oppression and illegal Detentions against the Buddhist Sangha, and Violation of the Buddhist Legal Code. In the second place, for disobeying the order to expel Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa as Spiritual Patron, Lama Lobzang of the IBC was declared Responsible for Violation of Buddhist Law. In the third place, for committing sexual abuse and forced labor, Sogyal Rinpoche of the IBC was declared Responsible for Torture and Slavery, Organized Crime and Fraud, Violation of Women's Rights, Violation of Buddhist Law and Crimes against humanity. Fourth, for supporting the criminal actions of Sogyal Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche was declared Responsible for Complicity with Crimes against humanity, Violation of Buddhist Law and Supreme Offense against international morality and the Sanctity of the Precepts.

Because the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)" is a Global Spiritual Community (Maha-Sangha), this organization must be regulated not only by the International Human Rights Law but also by the principles of International Buddhist Law established by the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights. This means that the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)" has no valid excuse to ignore the Judgments and legal proceedings of the Buddhist Tribunal, granting impunity to international criminals. In this sense, even if the IBC is not a member of the Buddhist Tribunal, it has a duty to comply with the precepts of the Ethics and the rules of International Law, not having to revalidate and grant impunity to genocidal criminals and sexual abusers who violate the most essential rules of Buddhist Law.

At the same time, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms the fact that the corruption of the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)" is structural, reaching the main spheres of power within the organization, as evidenced by the fact that the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, Spiritual Patron of the IBC, has had full knowledge and has done absolutely nothing in the face of the crimes committed by Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa, Lama Lobzang, Sogyal Rinpoche & Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms once again that the dictatorial State of Myanmar is carrying out a plan of human rights violation against the defenseless civilian population, committing acts of torture, sexual abuse, forced disappearances and illegal executions of children and babies in a systematic and widespread way. These genocidal crimes against humanity and peace are part of a plan of Myanmar to carry out the persecution, stigmatization, discrimination, dehumanization, segregation and extermination of the Rohingya People, these being crimes even worse than those committed by Nazism during the Jewish Holocaust. However, these crimes have had the direct support of Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa, Chairman of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee and Spiritual Patron of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), and he has also been supported and covered up by Secretary General Lama Lobzang of the IBC.  The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights confirms once again that the sexual, physical and psychological abuses that Sogyal Rinpoche of the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)" has committed with impunity for 40 years constitute crimes against humanity that have been supported and revalidated by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche of the IBC.

The Maitriyana transcends the visions of both nationalism and imperialism, criticizing State-sponsored Buddhism when it revalidates human rights violations. The International Buddhist Law is developed as an ethical center and spiritual leader to counteract the influence of the materialistic powers of East and West that are destroying the world. This strategy in the face of war, injustice, ignorance and pollution will be known as the Great Social Commitment of Super-Integral Buddhism (Maha-Purna) of Maitriyana. In this context, the International Buddhist Law plays a crucial role by audaciously assuming the Purpose (Dharma) of spreading Spirituality and making it critical against ideologies and State crimes. The internationalist orientation of Maitriyana positions it as a Transnational Social Activism, building multicultural and plurinational connections that allow giving shape and rectify any social scheme. Thus, the International Buddhist Law has a global orientation, avoiding falling into the illusory labels of Eastern Buddhism or Western Buddhism. To understand the practical-conceptual framework of this Transnational Buddhism of Maitriyana, it should be appreciated the fact that its International Social Activism teaches an adequate way of resolving the conflicts of the world, showing a direct access to world peace, social justice, advanced knowledge and environmental health in the here and now. The International Buddhist Law is developed without attachment to the powerful and influential Buddhist schools, being organized around the principle of transmission of active contemplation, compassionate wisdom and humanitarian ethics, which constitutes the Dynamic Ground of all the lineages and spiritual masters of history. Even though there are tenuous doctrinal differences, the knowledge of the Awakened Beings (Buddhas) is always the same: the Path of Truth, Reconciliation and Love. In this way, the Maitriyana denounces the falsehood of the State-Way Buddhism (Kodo Bukkyo), demonstrating that the Awakening (Bodhi), the Purpose (Dharma) and the Commune (Sangha) should never be associated with criminal and genocidal States, as Japan was during the early twentieth century and as Myanmar was at the beginning of the 21st century. While the International Buddhist Law is deeply ecumenical and detached from any particular tradition, it denounces the falsehoods and corruptions of those Buddhists conservatives of the regime that are linked to oppressive States that violate human rights. Therefore, the new spiritual movement of Maitriyana is socially reformist, radically opposing the complicity and cohabitation of false and rightist Buddhism with the oppressive and criminal States. In short, the true Buddhist Spirituality has a global vision and a transnational work, never having attachment to a specific place and never corrupting itself through relationships with the political and economic Power, since all societies must be ethically supervised through the International Buddhist Law.

The Maitriyana can be considered as a New Buddhism (Shin Bukkyo) of the Liberation that is opposed to the Old Buddhism (Kyu Bukkyo) of the State, criticizing the devotional cults and corrupt organizations, as is the case of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee and the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC). However, the International Buddhist Law is not really a modern creation, but rather is the postmodern update of the ancient legal system of the Buddhist Civilization, which had a profound ethical effect on politics, economics, culture and environment of tens of States. The Maitriyana revitalizes the ancient system of the Legal Code (Vinaya) of the spiritual communities (sanghas) through a dialectical synthesis between ethics and human rights, which is nothing more than the respect for the Buddhic nature latent in all sentient beings, guiding people and leading societies toward a better world or Pure Earth. This International Buddhist Law can then fight against the contemporary era of the Decline of the Buddhist Law or Dharma (Mappo), working for the spiritual evolution and Salvation of humanity and Mother Earth.

In conclusion, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has the Purpose (Dharma) to protect the spiritual legacy of the Great Master Gautama Samyaksambuddha, by developing an ethical practice and theory that makes the Legal Code (Vinaya) to evolve through the International Buddhist Law. The Purpose (Dharma) of the spiritual movement of Maitriyana is to protect the Supreme Buddhism of all the Buddhas of the past through active contemplation, compassionate wisdom and humanitarian ethics, judging and sentencing those individuals and organizations that betray the Ethics and Global Justice, as is the case of the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)", which has committed Violations against the International Buddhist Law and against the International Human Rights Law.

Following Master Gautama, who developed the most important International Spiritual Community in the history of the world, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights supervises that the Buddhist Sanghas do not attempt against ethics and human rights, never providing impunity to international criminals, which is why the "International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)" has been sentenced as Responsible for Violation of International Buddhist Law and Violation of the International Law of Human Rights.

With spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

MANIFESTO on Pseudo-Islamic Terrorism

Case 04-2015: ISIS

MANIFESTO on Pseudo-Islamic Terrorism

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights, defender of the rights of global citizenship and of all the beings on Mother Earth, exercising the cultural sovereignty that is emanated from the Buddhist Peoples and Spiritual Communities, is perfectly aware of the situation of the terrorist attacks carried out by the ISIS guerrilla;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has a universal ethical vocation, so that it is directed to the entire international community to become aware of the terrible crimes against humanity and genocidal acts that ISIS has carried out against 3 Christian churches in the city of Surabaya, Indonesia;

The Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights offers its condolences to the State of Indonesia for such terrible killings against a dozen innocent people of Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal churches;

It is stated that ISIS is committing Violations of the rights of children, because in order to carry out the terrorist attacks against the 3 Christian churches of Indonesia this terrorist group resorted to suicide attacks using children with explosives, which constitutes a new Supreme Offense against International Morality and the Sacredness of life.

It is stated that those genocide techniques against Christian churches constitute a Violation of the Rights of Spiritual Communities.

It is stated that ISIS is categorically betraying the spiritual traditions of the Islamic People, demonstrating once again that this guerrilla is absolutely pseudo-Islamic.

It is stated that President Joko Widodo of Indonesia is totally right when saying that terrorism is a crime against humanity and has no connection with any religion.

It is stated that Gumar Gultom, secretary general of the Indonesian Association of Churches, is also absolutely right that any religion teaches humanity, peace and love, and does not teach violence and murder.

It is stated that every murder against a single human being is a murder against the dignity of the entire humanity.

It is stated that ISIS should not be destroyed militarily but should be brought to justice, especially before the Islamic Law, because violence always breeds hatred while justice always generates Peace and Truth.

The entire international community is required to stop associating ISIS with True Islam.

On May 16, 2018, this Manifesto on Pseudo-Islamic Terrorism is expressed as a contribution to a more peaceful, just, cultured and healthy world.

Always with reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Judge of the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights

Judgment on Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Case 43-2018: Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

ETHICAL JUDGMENT

Dear Prosecutor, Public Defender, Ambassador, Secretary and Jury Members of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR), regarding Case 43-2018 against "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche", on May 09, 2018, it is hereby recorded that the trial of the Committee has been concluded to analyze the violation of Buddhist Ethics by the accused.

After analyzing the presentation of the Case and the validation of the evidence, the Committee has proceeded with the voting of 6 members of the Jury, confirming that there were1 vote for “Insanity”, 1 vote for “Innocent” and 4 votes for "Responsible" to "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche" for the serious crimes of Complicity with Crimes Against Humanity and Violation of Buddhist Law. In interpreting and giving voice to the voting of the Jury members, it is concluded that "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche" has no valid reason to justify his Violations of Buddhist Ethics, which are an affront to the victims of sexual abuse and crimes against humanity by Sogyal Rinpoche. In this regard, the accused "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche" has publicly stated that there would be nothing wrong with the terrible international crimes of Sogyal Rinpoche if they would have occurred in the context of initiations of Vajrayana Buddhism, even stating that the guru should not be criticized or analyzed. Thus, "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche" positions the Vajrayana Buddhism beyond the fulfillment of Law, ignoring that the International Law has established that the tribal and indigenous juridical systems -within which the Buddhist Commune (Sangha) is found- can function autonomously and independently from State Law as long as they comply with the essential requirement of not violating the human rights, as established in the ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous Peoples. This means that the illegal practice of Sogyal Rinpoche and "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche" that oppresses the rights of women is totally immoral and must be changed, not because it is not according to a liberal, puritanical, abrahmic or individualistic mind, but because it violates the International Human Rights Law. Precisely, the Buddhist Law has liberty and self-determination to exist and develop itself as long as it does not violate fundamental principles, as established by the excellent jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Colombia in its Judgment T 349/96, where it is established that the right to cultural survival and the principle of ethnic and cultural diversity have legal limits, since indigenous communities have legal autonomy but simultaneously cannot practice actions that violate the right to life or the prohibition of slavery and torture. The International Buddhist Ethics Committee, as a Community practising the Buddhist Law as well as the Human Rights, has ruled that the actions of Sogyal Rinpoche supported by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche constitute acts of torture and sexual slavery, so that they violate both the Buddhist Ethics and the International Law. In this way, when Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche states that these criminal aspects of Vajrayana cannot be changed just to adapt to the 21st century, he not only demonstrates ignorance and lack of solidarity and remorse when he attacks the victims, but it also constitutes an apology of crime, being specifically an apology of crimes against humanity. Even if it is recognized that the students of Sogyal Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche have voluntarily entered the Vajrayana practices, this does not provide legitimacy or legality to systematically suffering crimes against humanity, such as torture, sexual abuse and forced labor. Unlike the apology of crimes against humanity that has been expressed by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee confirms that the Buddhist Law is not a criminal pathway contrary to accepted laws and beyond morality, the Rule of Law, accountability and transparency, because actually the Buddhist Law is the maximum liberator and defender of the sacredness of life in the history of humanity. Indeed, since the Buddhist Commune (Sangha) has been an example of empathy, mutual support and spiritual love (metta) in the world, then it is stated that the acts of psychological manipulation and cultural distortion carried out by Sogyal Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche constitute a Supreme Offense against International Morality and the Sanctity of the Precepts, trying to destroy and delegitimize the best ethical and spiritual legacy of humanity. However, this lack of altruism towards the victims of Sogyal Rinpoche is not a new act in Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, who has kept 30 years of silence and inaction to the ethnic cleansing carried out in Bhutan, country which, according to evidence, forcibly expelled more than 100,000 citizens of a minority ethnic group, something which would constitute crimes against humanity in the eyes of International Law.

On the other hand, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee establishes the possibility of reaching a Post-Sentence Conciliation Agreement with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in case the accused wishes the annulment of the charges against him. In order to do good, to stop doing evil, and to purify oneself spiritually, following the Path of all the Buddhas, it is ruled that Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche should meet the following requirements: 1) Publicly apologize and subsidize therapeutic and spiritual assistance to the victims of Sogyal Rinpoche; 2) Declare that he will abandon and will condemn the illegal practices that usually occur in the name of Vajrayana and that undermine the rights of women; 3) Commit to fulfill the Buddhist Law at all times and places, and never again validating or legitimizing crimes; 4) Actively denounce crimes against humanity that occur in his native country Bhutan. Until this possible Conciliation Agreement does not happen, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee declares that Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is Responsible for Complicity with Crimes against Humanity and Violation of Buddhist Law.

Two thousand six hundred years ago the Spiritual Commune (Sangha) was born as a People where men and women enjoyed full equality. This is what the Buddhist Law defends as a Spirituality of Liberation, where there are no discriminations based on race, gender or social class. Thus, the Maitriyana denounces the False Buddhism of all those institutions showing patriarchal and sexist traits, because they would have betrayed the founding spirit created by Master Gautama. The Buddhist Law revalues women and never reduces them to a mere sexual object, leading humanity toward Liberation and Self-determination and never toward oppression and slavery. In short, the Maitriyana concludes that the existence of a Spiritual Commune (Sangha) with sexist and hedonistic characteristics represents the total decline of Buddhism. Therefore, the Buddhist Law must be feminist anywhere and anytime, carrying out a Dharmic Feminism that defends the rights of women but without incurring immoral and criminal misalignments that violate human rights, as is the case of neoliberal defense of the decriminalization of abortion that violates the human right to life of the child.

In conclusion, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee has the Purpose (Dharma) for the Buddhist Spirituality to be always on the side of the victims and never endorse abusive criminals, so that anyone attempting against active contemplation, compassionate wisdom and humanitarian ethics will be condemned. Thus, for having violated several of the fundamental laws of Buddhist Law, such as providing ethical and spiritual support to practices of sexual exploitation and torture, it is established that the accused must be expelled from Buddhism, unless he publicly repents and decides to practice and learn a Genuine spiritual Path. In this way, the Case of "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche" is a great lesson for anyone who carries out complicity with sexual abuse to know that it will not be done with impunity.

Following the Path of Master Gautama Buddha, who created and developed a Path of protection and defense of women two thousand six hundred years ago, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee supervises that the Buddhist masters and spiritual communes from all over the world do not violate the Buddhist Law, so that "Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche" has been sentenced as Responsible for Complicity with Crimes Against Humanity and Violation of Buddhist Law.

With spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

H.E. Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) and Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR)

Legal Notice to the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)

Case n° 18/2016: State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee (SSMNC – Ma Ha Na)

LEGAL NOTICE to the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)

On May 2, 2018, this Legal Notice is made due to the fact that Nobel Peace Prize winners have publicly accused Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya People, since Aung San Suu Kyi, de facto president of Myanmar, has led an ethnic cleansing and forced expulsion of 700 thousand people by means of sexual abuse and systematic and widespread murder of girls, women and unarmed men, very often by decapitating or burning them alive. In 2018 Tawakkol Karman, Mairead Maguire and Shirin Ebadi have requested that those responsible for these international crimes of genocide against innocents be brought before the International Criminal Court.

On the other hand, in 2017 and 2018, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, stated that the crimes committed by Myanmar against the Rohingya People would constitute acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, calling on the international community to conduct investigations and trials before international courts.

Precisely, not allowing impunity to exist is what the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights has been doing in 2015 and 2016, when sentencing to the de facto leaders of Myanmar, Thein Sein, Aung San Suu Kyi and Min Aung Hlaing, for the crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, high crimes against peace, violation of international human rights law and violation of Buddhist law; and also sentencing the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee and its de facto leader Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa for the crimes against humanity and peace, complicity with genocide and ethnic cleansing, violation of the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples, violation of the freedom of expression, violation of the rights of women and children, complicity with discrimination, oppression and illegal detention against the Buddhist Sangha, and violation of the Buddhist Legal Code. For having blatantly ignored this terrible situation, the IBC Secretary General, Lama Lobzang, was sentenced as Responsible for Violation of Buddhist Law.

Consequently, it is confirmed the fact that when keeping the genocidal criminal Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa as its Spiritual Patron, the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) is not only validating Violations of Buddhist Law, but it is also being an accomplice to crimes against humanity, since it provides shelter or covers up an international criminal to revalidate him ethically and spiritually, which provides impunity for crimes committed in the past and also allows to continue carrying out crimes in the future. In case of not resolving this scandalous situation, by not expelling Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa in the next 5 days, the Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights will initiate legal actions against the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC).

Finally, as the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso has been previously informed, the expulsion of Sogyal Rinpoche, who is a member of the Supreme Dhamma Council of the IBC, is ordered within the next 5 days, since he has been found Responsible for having committed Torture and Slavery, Inhumane treatment against women, all of which constitutes a Violation of Buddhist Law and Crimes against humanity.

It is expected that the IBC will comply with the Buddhist Law, ceasing to do evil, beginning to do good and spiritually purifying itself.

With spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee (IBEC) & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights (BTHR)

Official Statement to the FBI

Case 41-2018: RIGPA & Sogyal Rinpoche

Official Statement to the FBI

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee, on April 26, 2018, decides to communicate officially with the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) following the arrest of Keith Raniere and Allison Mack, who lead "Nxivm", a self-help cult linked to celebrities that is an international group accused of turning women into sexual slaves, carrying out crimes such as sex trafficking and forced labor, which are prohibited by the International Human Rights Law. In this sense, William Sweeney, director of the investigation for the FBI, said that Keith Raniere has made a disgusting abuse of power through the denigration and manipulation of women considered sex slaves, which would constitute horrifying and disconcerting crimes against humanity.

The International Buddhist Ethics Committee confirms that the crimes committed by Keith Raniere of the "Nxivm" cult are practically identical to the crimes committed during around 40 years by Sogyal Rinpoche of the "Rigpa" cult, who have been sentenced as Responsible for the serious crimes of Torture and Slavery, Fraud and Organized Crime, Violation of women's rights, Violation of Buddhist Law and Crimes against humanity. Therefore, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee requires the FBI to investigate with the same weight of law to both the "Nxivm" and "Rigpa" cults, which seem having been dedicated to swindle thousands of people to maintain a system of sex trafficking and forced labor in order to satisfy the lusts of Keith Raniere and Sogyal Rinpoche respectively. The International Buddhist Ethics Committee recalls that the "Rigpa" cult is based in the USA, so it is within the jurisdiction of the FBI. The fact that this cult has strong political ties does not merit that it can commit crimes against humanity with total impunity.

On the other hand, the International Buddhist Ethics Committee shares with the FBI the ethical conclusion reached during the "World Peace Prize Awarding Council Case": Wan Ko Yee, who calls himself "HH Dorje Chang Buddha III", would have bribed US congressmen and senators in order to receive awards and recognitions endorsed by the USA government. The International Buddhist Ethics Committee requests the FBI to investigate this fact of corruption in order to bring those responsible to justice.

Always with spirit of reconciliation (maitri),

Master Maitreya Samyaksambuddha

President and Spiritual Judge of the International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights