Braverman's Buddhist sect is linked to the sexual abuse of young people.
London Buddhist Centre.
Braverman is the most senior government law officer, responsible for providing ministers with legal advice and supervising the Crown Prosecution Service.
Braverman is a member of the Buddhist sect called Triratna.
She has attended Triratna's meetings and retreats.
She was considering ‘ordination’ - joining its inner core.
Dennis Lingwood 1925 – 2018
Triratna is the creation of Dennis Lingwood, a British-born guru (aka Sangharakshita).
Triratna is very wealthy, owning properties around Britain.
Lingwood was born in Tooting, London, in 1925.[15]
In Triratna, Lingwood encouraged followers to experiment with gay sex.
He was very critical of the nuclear family; he encouraged young men to break away from their families.
Triratna has admitted it has a long history of systematic sexual abuse of members.
Young lads were used as 'playthings' by Lingwood and other top members.
Triratna’s headquarters, a country house in Herefordshire formerly known as Coddington Court.
Lingwood set up his sect in the 1960s.
His Buddhism involved ideas borrowed from psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Lingwood, who was gay, championed ‘Greek love’ - that of a man for a boy.
Young lads attending retreats would sleep with Lingwood.
Triratna now has branches in more than 30 countries.
"James Wedgwood ...was caught cottaging by the police - 18 lavatories in two hours - he said with hauteur that he was searching for a friend known in a previous life."
Leadbeater and Wedgwood were also top people in the Theosophy Movement.
Leadbeater took a keen interest in the boy children of the Theosophists.
Bishop James Wedgwood
In 1922, Bishop James Wedgwood settled in Paris "abandoning his ecclesiastical position temporarily to pursue a life of sexual excess."
In Gay Paris, Bishop Wedgwood "fell victim to cocaine addiction, also supplying his boyfriends with the drug, and took to smuggling it past the authorities inside his crozier"
(Source: Star in the East: Krishnamurti, the Invention of a Messiah by Roland Vernon, Constable, 2000, page 164)
Blavatsky (centre) and two of her 'Masters'
Wedgwood claimed that beings called the 'Masters', who lived in the Himalayas, held him in high regard, and that he was the recipient of mysterious messages from these Masters.
Reportedly, these 'Masters' were an 'invention' by Madame Blavatsky and the 'fraud' had been exposed as early as 1884.
He wrote that while in India, he had received visits and training from some of the "Masters".
In 1885, Charles Leadbeater was in Sri lanka, where he founded the English Buddhist Academy, which became Ananda College.
In 1889, Leadbeater returned to England .
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In 1906 Leadbeater was accused of having encouraged adolescent boys, pupils under his care, to masturbate.
Roland Vernon writes:"It came to light that Leadbeater had been teaching his boys masturbation, and had been encouraging them to practise it regularly...
"Leadbeater had in the past repeatedly stated the importance of sexual purity."
There is much evidence that Leadbeater frequently shared beds with his pupils.
(Source: Star in the East: Krishnamurti, the Invention of a Messiah by Roland Vernon, Constable, 2000, page 164)
New Messiah?
In the early part of the last century, members of the Theosophists believed that a new Messiah was going to appear.
Around 1907, 11-year-old Hubert van Hook of Chicago was selected by Leadbeater as the possible Messiah.
Hubert later swore that Leadbeater had 'misused' him.
However, he had a long and intimate affair with his friend's wife and then had a long and bitter legal battle against his friend in order to stop any knowledge of it becoming public.
Krishnamurti (right) and Nitya
Krishnamurti, after the death of his brother Nitya, gave up his belief in the Masters.
Krishnamurti came to believe that enlightenment was not to be found by messages from Tibet or by following some Messiah.
Krishnamurti decided that each person can find enlightenment immediately, from inside themselves.
The kingdom of heaven is within you.
According to Roland Vernon,Krishnamurti believed that there is some kind of divine energy in all creation and that enlightenment comes 'through a state of union with this energy.'
This idea is found in Hinduism and other religions.
Like Buddha, Krishnamurti thought that enlightenment comes when a person is freed from selfish desires such as the desire for money or fame.
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Roland Vernon (Star in the East: Krishnamurti, the Invention of a Messiah by Roland Vernon) suggests that human beings invent or imagine the angels, masters and other such creatures.
But he believes we should not necessarily ignore these imaginings.
These inventions may, in some instances, represent or symbolise some kind of spiritual reality which cannot accurately be described in words or pictures.
(Page 155 Star in the East)
Vernon writes: "The mind works to build physical images of what are essentially metaphysical entities".
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