Update June 23, 2019

The number of signatures has now reached 2,740, and we have added translations of the letter into French and Tibetan. So now it is available in six languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Tibetan. If you know people who speak any of these languages and would be interested in this issue, please let them know. The link is the same as before--  http://chng.it/cwHY8q8b -- and the links for the other languages are at the top of the letter.

We sent another letter to Ven Roger and the FPMT Board on June 16, again urging the FPMT to launch an impartial investigation. We wrote that we have heard of other women with stories to report, so it is clear that there is a need for third-party professional persons who are experienced in such procedures, and with whom these women can share their experiences anonymously.

We concluded the letter by saying: “The Buddhist sangha is entrusted by the Buddha to safeguard the Dharma, and we would be remiss in our duty if we did not continue to call on the FPMT board to take immediate steps to protect the Dharma, restore people’s trust in Tibetan Buddhism, and behave with the compassion and ethical integrity that the world expects of the Buddhadharma. Nothing short of an independent investigation will be sufficient to do that at this point.”