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[[File:Shenpen Rinpoche Vienna 2004.jpg|thumb|right|'''Ronan Chatellier''' before he quit acting a Buddhist monk in 2008]] |
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Shenphen [[Rinpoche]] is an alias assumed by '''Ronan Chatellier''' (born 10 January 1969 in [[France]]). He claims to be a [[Tibetan Buddhism|Tibetan Buddhist]] [[Lama]]. He says he was initially ordained as a novice monk in 1985 at the age of 16 by [[Geshe Tegchok]] and given full ordaination by [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] in 1980, although the Dalai Lama's office could not confirm this.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.dnevnik.si/1042531995 |trans-title="Buddhist leader" arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a minor |title= "Budistični vodja" v priporu zaradi suma spolnega napada na otroka |language=sl |date=2012-05-26 |work=[[Dnevnik (Slovenia)|Dnevnik]] |last=Lovšin |first=Peter |accessdate=2018-08-13}}</ref> He quit acting as a monk in 2008, abandoning his ordination. According to a document in his possession, Chatellier has supposedly been recognised as the [[tulku]] of Lama Gendun Rabgye, of [[Kharnang Monastery|Karnang]], an obscure monastery in a remote area of eastern [[Tibet]].<ref>[http://www.dharmaling.org/en/recognition-documents Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling - Recognition documents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127062743/http://dharmaling.org/en/recognition-documents |date=2010-11-27 }}</ref>{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} However, according to multiple reports in leading Slovenian newspapers, e.g. [[Slovenske novice]] (the largest newspaper in Slovenia) and [[Dnevnik (Slovenia)]] (the third-largest), he has been wanted by the police and the civil courts there on both civil and criminal charges since 2012. Meanwhile he appears to have been a fugitive, on the run from Slovenian justice, see [[Shenphen Rinpoche#Legal Accusations and Public Record in Slovenia|Legal Accusations and Public Record in Slovenia]]. |
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'''Shenphen [[Rinpoche]]''' (born 10 January 1969 in [[France]]) is a [[Tibetan Buddhism|Tibetan Buddhist]] [[Lama]]. He was initially ordained in 1985 at the age of 16 by Kyabje [[Thubten Zopa Rinpoche]] and later fully ordained by [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]]. Shenphen Rinpoche has been recognised as a [[tulku]] of Lama Gendun Rabgye, from [[Kharnang Monastery]], [[Tibet]].<ref>[http://www.dharmaling.org/en/recognition-documents Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling - Recognition documents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127062743/http://dharmaling.org/en/recognition-documents |date=2010-11-27 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.tibetanlama.com/htmls/lama_dtls.asp?Section=Main&ID=276&S_Thought=GELUG Tibetan Lamas detailed biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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[[File:Shenpen Rinpoche 2007.jpg|thumb|right|'''Ronan Chatellier''' wearing the "Buddhist uniform" which he has designed himself. He claims to have quit being a monk in 2008, but this photograph, without monk's robes, is dated 2007.]] |
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== Teachers== |
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Lama Shenphen Rinpoche's first teacher was the [[Gelug]] master Khensur Geshe Tegchok. Other important teachers are [[Thubten Zopa Rinpoche]], the 14th Dalai Lama, Gomo Tulku, Lama Gendun Rinpoche, and [[Dilgo Khyentse]] Rinpoche. |
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However in his CV he says in 2003 he was a volunteer in an orphanage in St Petersburg, Russia.<ref name=CV /> |
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In 1986, Rinpoche was requested to teach others in France. Since then, was requested to teach in many other countries. |
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⚫ | After a few years in a monastery, Rinpoche studied medicine in Paris at Faculté Libre des Sciences de la Santé. Over the next five years, he engaged in humanitarian activities, mainly in India, but also in Nepal and Russia (for street children). Rinpoche created [[AMCHI|AMCHI Association]], an association that organises humanitarian missions. |
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From 2002 until sometime after 2012 when he is alleged to have quit Slovenia to avoid justice, according to his own publicity Chatellier was living in [[Slovenia]] permanently as a Slovene citizen, where he opened a Buddhist temple in Slovenia in 2007,<ref>http://www.dharmaling.org/en/ljubljana-center Temple in Ljubljana</ref> with a full program of teachings and practice.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} However in his CV he also claims that from 2004 through to 2012 he was the President of MIR Foundation in Ljubljana, Slovenia.<ref name=CV /> |
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Chatellier also provides his completely different background as a medical assistant and security guard, in an advertisement on a security personnel employment site. Dated 2012, his detailed CV, apparently posted by himself in search of employment, makes no reference to any kind of training or interest in Buddhism, nor to his role as Lama Shenphen Rinpoche as described above and elsewhere. On the contrary, according to his CV the only kind of traceable and formal training he has received since 1990 appears to be as a doorman ("Door Supervisor") and security guard at S.I.A. in London, in April 2011.<ref name=CV >{{cite web |last1=Chatellier |first1=Ronan |title=Advertise on Close Protection World |url=https://www.closeprotectionworld.com/members-looking-for-work/66964-search-close-protection-missions-protection-humanitarian-diplomatic-missions.html |website=Close Protection World |publisher=CP World |accessdate=3 August 2018 |date=19 June 2012 |quote=e.g., 2001: volunteer in children hospital for street children, St-Petersburg, Russia; 2003: volunteer in an orphanage, St-Petersburg, Russia. 2011/04: Security guard and door supervisor training at SIA London}}</ref> |
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Since 2002, Rinpoche is living in [[Slovenia]] permanently as a Slovene citizen, where he opened a Buddhist temple in Slovenia,<ref>http://www.dharmaling.org/en/ljubljana-center Temple in Ljubljana</ref> with a full program of teachings and practice. Rinpoche travels frequently in Hungary, Austria,<ref>http://www.austria.dharmaling.org {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070730062149/http://www.austria.dharmaling.org/ |date=2007-07-30 }} Dharmaling Austria</ref> France, Romania, and Russia.<ref>http://www.dharmaling.org/en/program program</ref> |
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Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has practiced for over twenty years a method combining mantras and meditation, oriented toward healing physical and psychological ailments. |
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However, in his professional security bodyguard CV mentioned above under 'Activities', he states that his stay in Sera-Jhe in India was not at a monastery but at a refugee camp. It also states that rather than receiving traditional training from masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, as stated above without citation, he was, in fact, working as medical assistant, although he does not appear to have any formal medical qualification or other credentials.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Ronan Chatellier |title=Search Close Protection missions, protection of humanitarian or diplomatic missions |url=https://www.closeprotectionworld.com/members-looking-for-work/66964-search-close-protection-missions-protection-humanitarian-diplomatic-missions.html |website=CP World |publisher=Close Protection World |accessdate=3 August 2018 |date=19 June 2012 |quote=1990-1995: dispensary then hopital of Sera-Jhe (Tibetan refugees camp), Bylakuppe, India. Daily patients, emergencies, training of nurses, class of hygiene for schools}}</ref> |
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==Legal Accusations and Public Record in Slovenia== |
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⚫ | Traditionally trained and having received transmissions from various masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in [[Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh|Dharamsala]] and [[Sera Monastery|Sera]]-Jhe Monastery (India), but also in [[Kharnang Monastery]] (Tibet), Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has made efforts to teach a Buddhism cleared from cultural, political, and educational impregnations from Tibet. |
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<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Screenshot of Slovenske Novice, a Slovenian Newspaper article on Ronan Chatellier, 28.05.2012, translated by Google Translate.jpg|thumb|right|Chatellier, taken to court by police (from Slovenian newspaper 'Slovenske Novice', 28.05.2012)]] -->From 2012 onwards, Slovenian newspapers have reported on problems Ronan Chatellier (a.k.a. Shenphen Rinpoche) has experienced with the authorities and others in that country. Allegations of sexual misbehaviour have been made against him as well as of taking a loan of €90,000 from a student of his who was a Buddhist nun against assurances that were not fulfilled, and using the funds for his personal ends. It was also reported that he is alleged by the Slovenian police to have staged two phoney knife attacks against himself in Slovenia and of giving false testimony in order to have an excuse not to return to Slovenia to face additional legal charges made against him in the courts. In summary, as at 2018 he faces a civil lawsuit for the return of the €90,000 loaned by the nun, but the criminal charges for false testimony and perverting the course of justice for the alleged staged attacks on himself may have lapsed in 2017 due to the Slovenian statute of limitations. The newspapers also report that allegations of sexual offences against minors were withdrawn by the alleged victim at the last minute when the case came to the Slovenian court. Chatellier is also reported as having an application refused by the authorities for a licence to obtain and bear firearms for the alleged purposes of self-defence against supposed assailants. These reports also say that having left Slovenia for France he has pleaded medical reasons for not being able to travel to Slovenia to face the charges, while failing or refusing to provide medical certificates to substantiate the alleged medical condition which prevents him from doing so; the court action thus being delayed, it is reported that in 2017, the charges may have lapsed due to the statue of limitations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Celec |first1=Bostjan |title=Za sodišče prebolan, potuje pa po svetu |trans-title=Too ill for the court, but he travels around the world |language=sl |url=https://old.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/za-sodisce-prebolan-potuje-pa-po-svetu |accessdate=3 August 2018 |publisher=Slovenske Novice |date=2 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Various reporters |title=Search Keyword: Ronan Chatellier |url=https://old.slovenskenovice.si/tags/ronan-chatellier |accessdate=3 August 2018 |publisher=Slovenske Novice}}</ref> However, it is also reported that fresh criminal charges have been made against him in the meantime concerning an alleged sexual assault on a minor.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Furlan |first1=Mojca |title= Nekdanji budistični vodja Ronan Chatellier se izgovarja na bolezen |trans-title=Former Buddhist leader Ronan Chatellier provides illness as an excuse |language=sl |url=https://www.dnevnik.si/1042756742 |accessdate=3 August 2018 |publisher=Dnevnik |date=14 December 2016}}</ref> |
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Rinpoche encourages a form of Buddhism more engaged with society, proposing more services to the general public (visits to hospitals, education in school), applying Dharma in everyday life. To that end, Rinpoche has made efforts to adapt — without deteriorating — the Tibetan Buddhism lineage toward the West. This adaptation also includes clothing: Rinpoche has created a more western type of Buddhist uniform. |
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Having thus quit Slovenia to live in his native France again, on social media and his websites and elsewhere Chatellier has strenuously denied as false and slanderous all such allegations by the police as reported in Slovenian newspapers. Concerning Masa Gedrih a.k.a. Tenzing Wangmo, the Buddhist nun who, it is alleged, was persuaded to sell her flat and hand over the proceeds to him, he has issued his own 'Public Statement' portraying her as 'bitter' and 'vengeful' and accusing her of telling lies and slandering him. At the same time he acknowleges that she sold her flat in order to loan him the proceeds of €90,000, and that he used her money for his own purposes including covering his personal living costs and feeding his children. He also makes it clear, in this public statement, that, despite her requests to repay the loan, he has no intention to repay until he is legally obliged to do so which will be in 2032. As of 2018 this case is still proceeding against Chatellier in the Slovenian courts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chatellier |first1=Ronan |title=Response to article in Slovenske novice on 20th of June 2017 |url=http://www.dharmaling.org/en/public-statements |website=Dharmaling Buddhist Congregation |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Furlan-Rus |first1=Mojca |title=Budistična nuna za Rinpočejev blagor prodala stanovanje, potem pa obubožana iskala hrano po smetnjakih |trans-title=The Buddhist nun sold her apartment for Rinpoche's benefit, then went broke and living on food found in rubbish |language=sl |url=https://www.dnevnik.si/1042799122 |website=Dnevnik |accessdate=7 August 2018 |date=24 January 2018}}</ref> |
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Shenphen Rinpoche (born 10 January 1969 in France) is a Tibetan Buddhist Lama. He was initially ordained in 1985 at the age of 16 by Kyabje Thubten Zopa Rinpoche and later fully ordained by Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. Shenphen Rinpoche has been recognised as a tulku of Lama Gendun Rabgye, from Kharnang Monastery, Tibet.[1][2]
Teachers
Lama Shenphen Rinpoche's first teacher was the Gelug master Khensur Geshe Tegchok. Other important teachers are Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, the 14th Dalai Lama, Gomo Tulku, Lama Gendun Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Activity
In 1986, Rinpoche was requested to teach others in France. Since then, was requested to teach in many other countries.
After a few years in a monastery, Rinpoche studied medicine in Paris at Faculté Libre des Sciences de la Santé. Over the next five years, he engaged in humanitarian activities, mainly in India, but also in Nepal and Russia (for street children). Rinpoche created AMCHI Association, an association that organises humanitarian missions.
Between 1998 and 2001, following the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Shenphen Rinpoche was director of a retreat centre in Greece. In 2000, Rinpoche created Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling. He then moved to Spain to open a small center, until 2002.
Since 2002, Rinpoche is living in Slovenia permanently as a Slovene citizen, where he opened a Buddhist temple in Slovenia,[3] with a full program of teachings and practice. Rinpoche travels frequently in Hungary, Austria,[4] France, Romania, and Russia.[5]
Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has practiced for over twenty years a method combining mantras and meditation, oriented toward healing physical and psychological ailments.
Tradition
Traditionally trained and having received transmissions from various masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Dharamsala and Sera-Jhe Monastery (India), but also in Kharnang Monastery (Tibet), Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has made efforts to teach a Buddhism cleared from cultural, political, and educational impregnations from Tibet.
Rinpoche encourages a form of Buddhism more engaged with society, proposing more services to the general public (visits to hospitals, education in school), applying Dharma in everyday life. To that end, Rinpoche has made efforts to adapt — without deteriorating — the Tibetan Buddhism lineage toward the West. This adaptation also includes clothing: Rinpoche has created a more western type of Buddhist uniform.
Notes
- ^ Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling - Recognition documents Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tibetan Lamas detailed biography
- ^ http://www.dharmaling.org/en/ljubljana-center Temple in Ljubljana
- ^ http://www.austria.dharmaling.org Archived 2007-07-30 at the Wayback Machine Dharmaling Austria
- ^ http://www.dharmaling.org/en/program program