The Denver Post "conducted dozens of interviews with current and former members and a review of hundreds of pages of internal documents, police records and private communications," and published this long and in-depth look at Shambhala's response to allegations of abuse. The article contains many interviews and discussions of how the institution sought to protect itself by re-orienting or suppressing complaints, often through victim-blaming, and how internal processes failed

Message from the Interim Board: Recent Arrests of Former Shambhala Members The Interim Board issued a communication addressing the arrest, stating that neither it nor the International Care and Conduct Panel were aware of any incidents involving Michael Smith prior to his arrest, and that during the subsequent information discovery process, questions arose related to how the case was handled internally by Shambhala leaders in the 1990s. As a result of this, the Interim Board

Michael Smith, 54, turned himself in to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office early Friday after the Boulder Police Department issued a warrant for his arrest on one charge of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office. He met the victim through his membership at the Boulder Shambhala Center. The abuse started when she was 13 years old. Boulder police have also been contacted by another woman, who claimed that Smith

(Image posted by Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre, 24.06.19) This is a report written by an ex-NKT member who is also a clinical psychologist. The report is too long for me to summarize effectively here, but there are many parallels with Shambhala. It is an interesting read that will equip the reader with more concepts and language to help some of the dynamics that may occur in unhealthy spiritual situations. Not exactly the same things have been happening in every insta