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When eight students wrote a letter accusing Sogyal Rinpoche, author of the best-selling Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, of decades of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, Tahlia Newland set up an online support group for abuse victims and students of his Tibetan Buddhist community, Rigpa. Appalled by the lack of ethics, the group undertook a journey of discovery during which they uncovered the depth of the trauma suffered by victims, and the fundamentalism and cult behaviour at the heart of Rigpa. They learned about destructive cults, trauma and recovery, narcissistic abuse, co-dependency, institutional betrayal, and the methods of mind control used by Rigpa, who had covered up and enabled the abuse for decades. Fallout, Tahlia's memoir of this time, reveals the consequences of spiritual abuse for an ordinary member of an abusive, high-demand religious group and the psychological processing required for healing and cult recovery. Fallout is a cautionary tale for students and potential students of any guru-centred spiritual group. For Buddhist teachers and scholars, it also provides valuable insight into areas of the teachings which can easily be misunderstood and misused. For psychotherapists and counsellors, it's an important case study for anyone working with cult survivors, particularly in a Buddhist context.Product Identifiers
PublisherAia Publishing
ISBN-139780648513049
eBay Product ID (ePID)22046566944
Product Key Features
Book TitleFallout: Recovering from Abuse in Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorTahlia Newland
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages436 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTahlia Newland
Topic AreaSocial Psychology