![]() Three years since the scandal, the group has rebranded itself as Shambhala Global, with a new charter and board of directors. Osel Rangdrol Mukpo, known to his followers as Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, smiles at his bride at their 2006 wedding in Halifax. The Halifax-based governing council of Shambhala resigned en masse, and said they hoped it would begin a healing process for their organization. While some of those allegations were corroborated by third-party investigations commissioned by Shambhala, there were no formal complaints to police. Mukpo, whose followers call him Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, or just the Sakyong, a Tibetan word that translates roughly as king, publicly acknowledged in a statement what he called “relationships” that left women “feeling harmed,” and relocated to Nepal. In 2018, Shambhala’s spiritual director, Osel Rangdrol Mukpo, stepped down after some of his most devoted female followers accused him of drunken groping, sexual abuse and forcing them to perform sexual favours. The man they’re trying to remove from the farmhouse, Sean Drohan, says the way he’s being treated shows the hypocrisy in the group’s mantra of kindness, generosity and finding the “basic goodness” in everyone. The property is owned by Halifax-based Shambhala Global, an international, non-profit Tibetan spirituality group spread over 50 countries that includes meditation centres, retreat centres, monasteries and a university.
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