Dalai Lama says he knew of abuse allegations since the 1990s

The Dalai Lama has told broadcaster NOS he was aware of reports about sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers as far back as the 1990s. NOS posed the question at the official opening of a new exhibition about Buddhism at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. Asked by the broadcaster what he had learned from his meeting with four abuse victims in the Netherlands on Friday, the Dalai Lama said: ‘I knew these things, they are not new’. ‘Twenty-five years ago… someone...