RfRx - Religion Spotlight: Tibetan Buddhism with Tahlia Newland
Recovering from Religion
In this week's RfRx, Tahlia Newland will join us to discuss what Tibetan Buddhism is. Its practices, beliefs, and leadership may be foreign and exotic to Western minds, making it a tempting religion to join. We'll learn about its belief systems, its leadership, some history, and the struggles adherents experience within and trying to transition out of this religion. Tahlia is an editor, publisher and mask maker and was a Tibetan Buddhist for 20 years. She spent twelve years in a partial home retreat, completed advanced practices, trained as a meditation instructor, and was the Teaching Services Director of Rigpa Australia's Distance Education Centre for 12 years. She left her Tibetan Buddhist community, Rigpa, after revelations that her teacher, Sogyal Rinpoche, was physically, emotionally and sexually abusing his close students. She wrote a book called Fallout: Recovering from Abuse in Tibetan Buddhism about the subsequent learning she and others went through in the wake of the revelations. She also has a YouTube channel called Beyond the Temple.