“Understandably everyone at Karmê Chöling is feeling deeply affected, angered and saddened by this news,” executive director Myra Woodruff wrote in a letter to the editor of the local Caledonian Record. The 700-acre Karmê Chöling meditation center is located in the Northeast Kingdom town of Barnet. seeds of Tibetan Buddhism long before Trungpa’s peer the Dalai Lama became a household name. But it has especially shaken followers at Karmê Chöling in the tiny town of Barnet, where the Sakyong’s father planted the first U.S. The news has hit hard at Shambhala (the word means “source of happiness”) and its more than 200 sanghas (or spiritual communities) in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In a separate statement, his lawyer adds that while the Sakyong apologizes “to people who have expressed feeling harmed by my conduct,” his client “categorically denies that he has ever participated in any activity that could be construed as a ‘sexual assault,’ attempted or otherwise, sexual contact with minors, or any other criminal offence.” “I will be using this time of self-reflection to deeply listen and to better understand how the dynamics of power, gender, and my actions have affected others.” “In a state of complete heartbreak, I write to you, humble, embarrassed, and thoroughly apologetic for disappointing you,” the Sakyong states in a recent letter to the Shambhala community.
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