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**Hetgvwic** · 08-26-2012, 04:44 AM

I am amazed by how many fakes, phoneys and crack pots are out there posing as Teachers, monks ,Rinpoches etc.

I was fairly recently in Nepal and was quite shocked by how many westerners appeared to be Ordained Monastic and Non-monastics circumnabulating the Stupa. I asked a local monk who informed me " they are not all monks or Yogis" he said laughing " some buy the robes by themselves and some have teachers who say it is ok" Then he shook his head and looked serious "they are dressing up" this quite shocked me

Interesting that you should mention that Ngagpa. I haven't been to Nepal but I can remember a couple of years or so ago a westerner posing as a tulku and calling himself 'rinpoche' on the internet with a photo of himself in Tibetan monks robes and a ritual hat and asking for personal donations. He was exposed as a fraud by some people in an internet group who investigated his alleged credentials
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We've also had people joining BWB and then announcing their imagined attainments and one guy said he was an enlightened Buddha and had come to teach us, lol !

Returning to the article again, I'm not sure what my opinion is about investigating a teacher for 3 years first.... I guess it also depends on how often one sees him in that time.

08-26-2012, 04:44 AM	#4
Hetgvwic Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 523 Senior Member	I am amazed by how many fakes, phoneys and crack pots are out there posing as Teachers, monks ,Rinpoches etc. I was fairly recently in Nepal and was quite shocked by how many westerners appeared to be Ordained Monastic and Non-monastics circumnabulating the Stupa. I asked a local monk who informed me " they are not all monks or Yogis" he said laughing " some buy the robes by themselves and some have teachers who say it is ok" Then he shook his head and looked serious "they are dressing up" this quite shocked me Interesting that you should mention that Ngagpa. I haven't been to Nepal but I can remember a couple of years or so ago a westerner posing as a tulku and calling himself 'rinpoche' on the internet with a photo of himself in Tibetan monks robes and a ritual hat and asking for personal donations. He was exposed as a fraud by some people in an internet group who investigated his alleged credentials . We've also had people joining BWB and then announcing their imagined attainments and one guy said he was an enlightened Buddha and had come to teach us, lol ! Returning to the article again, I'm not sure what my opinion is about investigating a teacher for 3 years first.... I guess it also depends on how often one sees him in that time.
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