page_title: Kalu Rinpoche
section_title: Controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Kalu Rinpoche / Controversy
caption_attribution_description: Later the heads of the Tibetan traditions accepted the titles His Holiness, which was once reserved for HH the Dalai Lama.
context_page_description: Kalu Rinpoche was a Buddhist lama, meditation master, scholar and teacher. He was one of the first Tibetan masters to teach in the West.
context_section_description: June Campbell, a former Kagyu nun who is an academic feminist, acted as Kalu Rinpoche's translator for several years. In her book Traveller in Space: Gender, Identity and Tibetan Buddhism, she writes that she consented to participate in what she realised later was an abusive sexual relationship with him, which he told her was tantric spiritual practice. She raises the same theme in a number of interviews, including one with Tricycle magazine in 1996. Since the book was published she has received "letters from women all over the world with similar and worse experiences" with other gurus.
caption: His Eminence Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche and His Eminence Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche, Wallingford, Seattle, Washington, USA in 1978
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