An article from Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, an independent quarterly magazine covering Buddhism in America since 1991, examining published accounts of misconduct by teachers in the early American Buddhist community, including Chogyam Trungpa's own documented heavy drinking and sexual relationships with students, distinct from and predating the 2018 Wickwire Holm investigation into his son Sakyong Mipham's later conduct.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier two: an article from Tricycle, an independent quarterly magazine covering Buddhism in America since 1991, examining published accounts of teacher misconduct in the early American Buddhist community. Its strength is that it draws on and cites prior published accounts rather than presenting new unverified allegations; its limit is that it is magazine journalism rather than a peer reviewed academic history, so it is used here for its documented, sourced account rather than as a standalone scholarly authority. NotesEstablished, editorially independent Buddhist review journalism rather than an academic peer-reviewed source; used here for a documented, published account of a named teacher's own conduct, tier two rather than tier one.
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AuthorTricycle: The Buddhist Review editorial staff
PublisherTricycle Foundation
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://tricycle.org/article/encounter-shadow-buddhist-america/
Source Typemagazine feature
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- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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