To the Maryland Attorney General: UPDATED X2

Today, a cult organization in Poolesville and Barnesville, Maryland posted the above notice on their web site http://www.tara.org, soliciting funds from the general public and in interstate commerce. You will notice they have published the claim their property and assets will be seized if they do not get $250,000 by:00 p.m. the 29th of April.

You will also find that the leader of this cult, Alyce Zeoli, published fundraising appeals linked to this claim on Twitter, where she participates using numerous avatars, inclusive of @ahkonlhamo.

When other participants on Twitter asked to see proof of the above claims, i.e. that a "Buddhist" temple in Maryland was about to have its property and assets seized, Alyce Zeoli and her group responded by trying to have the critic's account shut down. They also refused to provide any documentation supporting their claims of financial emergency, such as the name of the involved bank, or a copy of the letter of impending seizure.

This group, Kunzang Palyul Choling, has a long history of abuse of the public trust in financial dealings, in Maryland, Arizona, elsewhere in the United States and overseas.

As Buddhists and concerned citizens, we are asking you to open an immediate and detailed investigation into this organization and its leadership for fraudulent fundraising practices, and to conduct a complete and thorough audit of their financial affairs, with particular reference to self-dealing and conversion of assets involving the group's leadership.

UPDATED:
So, if you donated money to this "telethon" in the belief that a Buddhist temple was at risk -- as the KPC people claimed -- you are in for a big surprise:

"Coincidentally, our attorneys were able to arrange a two-week extension... " So, knowing that, they went ahead with the appeal anyway. Whatever works, right?

A telephone call to the M&T Bank Legal Department would have saved everyone a lot of panic. They refused to confirm the "Temple seizure" story.

Here it is in black and white -- evidence of fraudulent claims.

That's David A. Williams, presumably sobered up long enough to be "tweeting" as @kpcmonk while assisting in the scheme. Use of the various communications devices and mediums, plus the self-admitted international angle, raises this from state jurisdiction to a federal matter.

UPDATED:
From overseas, comes the rather interesting news that $117,000 came in one lump sum donation from Pathgate International -- the shadowy Palyul martial arts operation in London.

You can read the whole story at:
http://www.pathgate.org/pathgate_news_01_01.html#KPC_Fund_raising

Descent Into Madness

It is a sad and at times frightening thing to witness. New Palyul Lineage cult guru Alyce Zeoli ("Jetsunma" to her followers) is rapidly disintegrating, in real time, in public, on Twitter where she "tweets" as @ahkonlhamo.

Actually @ahkonlhamo is only one of her Twitter personas. It is the face she reserves for promoting her CD, endless boasting about projects she did years ago, and meaningless New Age babble about love, love, love.

But lately, Alyce hasn't been very loving, as she ruthlessly indulges her obsession with a man who she believes dumped her, and a courageous nun who helped him escape her clutches. If you examine her timeline, you see pages and pages of "tweets" seething with anger, jealousy, and cold hatred: all directed to these two people. You also see evidence such as provided by the screen shot above, that Alyce is losing her mind: a sudden rant directed to nobody in particular, or maybe a voice she hears inside her head.

Alyce's avatars make no pretense of loving kindness. These include @italiansteed, @shamanspell, @puredharma, @michangel1948, and @kpcmonk, to name but a few of the more than fifty -- yes, fifty -- sock puppets she employs to pummel her two "enemies." If you want to see who Alyce really is, read through their timelines.

Alyce has developed a peculiar fixation. She believes that two Twitter personas, @DSZBuddha and @crystalshakti, are operated by her "enemies." Each day, Alyce and her several personalities publish waves of scurrilous attacks against the two. The constant battling has disgusted most of the on-line Buddhist community, but it continues day and night, week after week: a constant barrage of threats, vulgarity, and coarse innuendo.

Is this Tibetan Buddhism? As one of Alyce's many on-line critics points out, if you want to confirm whether or not Penor Rinpoche's letter denouncing Alyce is genuine or not, all you have to do is visit her on Twitter. Both she and her students provide ample evidence every day that Penor Rinpoche's letter is absolutely authentic.

Alyce Zeoli has violated the confidence that was once placed in her, twisting the dharma for over twenty years to support a profligate lifestyle that includes sex with her students (male and female), drugs, and alcohol abuse. She has used precious Vajrayana teachings in the manner of a witch, to call down curses upon people she perceives as enemies: people who she fears with testify against her on a witness stand someday soon.

However, according to the very teachings she has so carelessly violated, there is a heavy penalty for such conduct: a descent into madness, as prelude to an eternity in the Vajra Hells.

Because Alyce Zeoli's conduct is so bizarre -- there is reason to believe that she and her followers are at this moment conspiring to commit a kidnapping -- police in at least three different states are investigating: "followers" that may include some of the Twitter personas she singles out for vilification. 

It isn't difficult to earn a display of Alyce Zeoli's gutter tactics.

Just go on Twitter, and tell her she's not a Queen.

Perhaps Alyce Zeoli should connect one of her disconnected thoughts: "I feel she should go for Psych eval and U go with. Or she will in fear act like no problem."

Attorney Charges "Jetsunma" With Child Stealing

An attorney for Gyaltrul Rinpoche has openly charged New Age "Jetsunma" Alyce Zeoli (also known as Catherine Burroughs) with child stealing on a public internet site. We reproduce the relevant page from that site, including a photograph of "Jetsunma" spiriting away the allegedly "stolen baby."

According to the highly respected attorney Charles Carreon, who has represented Gyaltrul Rinpoche and Yeshe Nyingpo Ashland on numerous occasions, "She actually took this baby from one of her devotees, claiming it was her spiritual child."

Reportedly, the devotee in question, Jaylee Fendantz, was thereafter forced by the portly cult leader -- then going by the name of Catherine Burroughs -- to change her name to "Catherine Anastasia." The whereabouts and welfare of "Catherine Anastasia" are unknown. Following numerous, plaintive and heart-wrenching attempts to see the child by both birth parents, Jaylee and Patrick, both have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Later, the child in question began to experience psychological distress occasioned by the early trauma of being taken from her birth parents, and her exposure to the Maryland-based "Jetsunma Cult" (now known as the "New Palyul Lineage"), with its open "celebration" of gay sex and the use of marijuana.

The child was reportedly treated by Tucson-area psychologist Laura Foley.

Desperation and Fraud

At the vicious web site maintained by Alyce Zeoli (the New Age "Jetsunma," and leader of the New Palyul Lineage Cult), they have gone to elaborate lengths to refute the letter Penor Rinpoche wrote to discipline Alyce -- a letter hand-carried from Namdroling Monastery and directly presented to her, which they now claim was "stolen" in order to be reproduced here. This letter was not stolen, nor is it a forgery, although as we shall soon see, it was used as the basis for a forgery. Copies of this letter were made available to several trusted lamas, together with other letters intended to be used to bring "Jetsunma" to heel.

The cult is disingenuously attempting to defuse this inevitability, and their attempts are almost laughable.

In particular, they have singled out the following elements, and we here quote from the numerous posts they have devoted to this subject:

"This letter is on “Charity Foundation Letterhead” which is incongruent for this type of correspondence."

"There are no signatures handwritten or otherwise."

"It is typewritten in English and His Holiness did not speak fluent English."

"The letter is not written in Holiness’ style of writing."

However, elsewhere on the very same site, they reproduce the letter we show above, which they claim is an authentic letter from Penor Rinpoche. What can we say about this letter?

 "This letter is on “Charity Foundation Letterhead” which is incongruent for this type of correspondence."

"There are no signatures handwritten or otherwise."

"It is typewritten in English and His Holiness did not speak fluent English."

"The letter is not written in Holiness’ style of writing."

You cannot have it both ways. 

It is interesting -- the person who bravely exposed the frauds being perpetrated by Alyce Zeoli and the New Palyul Lineage, and the person who has been targeted by this toxic cult with an unprecedented two year campaign of perjury, forgery, slander, stalking, false allegations and harassment -- has no connection or interest in the Palyul lineage, has never met or claimed to meet Penor Rinpoche, and adheres to an entirely different lineage: that much is clear from the open record. 

The frantic cover-up and hysterical spin doctoring now being engaged in by the New Palyul Lineage, and the strident attacks on critics, are eloquent evidence of just how desperate this cult has become as their reign of terror draws to a close. They have even gone so far as to openly attack very senior Palyul lineage holders, and seem to see elaborate conspiracies.

There is no conspiracy. There is only a long-overdue housecleaning.

The investigation ordered by the legitimate Palyul Lineage into the activities of this breakaway cult in the wake of Penor Rinpoche's death has almost concluded. We are reliably informed that its findings do not bode well for Alyce Zeoli and her band of misfits. 

When His Holiness Karma Kuchen, the current Palyul throneholder, visited Alyce last year, he remained polite but did not like what he saw. Returning to Namdroling Monastery, he gave a quiet series of orders.

Those orders are now being carried out by numerous hands and numerous methods.

Alyce Zeoli and her cult have become a legal, financial, and public relations liability to the established Palyul Lineage.

They are on the way out.

The Black Stupa of Poolesville

This is an uncensored photograph of poison oozing from the “Jetsunma Stupa” at Poolesville, Maryland. Lamas who have seen this believe that the stupa is actually producing negative energy. Of interest: crops and animals in the surrounding area have suddenly and unaccountably died.

Who Is "Lay Girl?"

We found the following post in an old internet archive, and reproduce it here as a public service:

Alyce Zeoli's cult regularly solicits money from the general public under a variety of pretexts and for a number of ostensible purposes. One favourite ploy is “Tibetan Refugee Relief.” As we shall see, there is considerable question regarding who is being relieved, and how.

When, in early 2008, investigators found that money was being collected for India  but not being sent to India (it was being used to pay Alyce Zeoli’s personal expenses), the following email was sent by a KPC agent (ever ready to fall on her sword) in an attempt to divert further questions:

“It looks like we need to send $2,041 to Namdroling.
Here is a letter that can accompany the check that
details the recipients and the amounts owed each.
Once I know how much money is in the account, I can
write a check for the rest.  Then we will need to get
a cashier’s check to “Penor Rinpoche Charitable
Foundation.”  Lama Lobsang felt this was the best way
to send the money, although it is very slow.  It would
be faster to send via western union but then there
would be a commission taken out.  Which would you
recommend? I am very sorry that this has lingered so long.  I
hope that I will never be the cause of others to be
without funds in the future.”

Below is the text of letter referenced in the above email:

Lama Drakpa

Penor Rinpoche Charity Foundation Office
Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery
Arlikumari, P.O. Bylakuppe pin 571104
Mysore District, Karnataka State
India

February 22, 2008

Dear Lama Drakpa

Greetings from Kunzang Palyul Choling in Poolesville, Maryland! I spoke with Lama Lobsang about some funds that we have for Tibetan Refugee Sponsorship. He told me to contact you.

As part of the Tibetan Refugee Sponsorship Program, we have collected funds for the following individuals. Lama Lobsang indicated that we should send the funds by certified check to you. We have funds for the following individuals:

Tenzin Silnam
$264

Tennam and Tenzing Paldon
$528

Old Camp No. 1, House #66
Tenzin Wobum
$465

Kalsang Lakyi
$144

Ani Shedra
$264

Tibetan Refugee Sponsorship
$256

For general use
Lay Girl
$120

Total

$2,041

Would it be possible for you to send me an email to let me know that you received this check, and if you have any questions? My email address is: [deleted]

Many thanks!

Sincerely,

Kunzang Palyul Choling

What KPC did not know, when they provided that letter to investigators, is that the ability to follow up on their claims was already in place. On 2/26/08, the following email was sent to a cooperating individual well-placed at Namdroling Monastery:

“See the attachment and check if these people listed actually exist.”

On 3/7/08 came the reply:

“It looks as if those names are more Gelugpa names than Nyingma. Ani Shedra I assume means Ani monastery. As far as I know we do not actually have anything to do with the Tibetan Refugee sponsorship. This handled by Tibetan government in first camp which is also one of the addresses you have there. We have between 600 and 700 nuns in Ani Gompa. What would be this money sent for? They are really odd amounts. Could it be connected with commissions rather than donation? I do not know it to be so and I do not know it not to be so but it is commonly believed that Lobsang has run and may be still running a visa operation. Camp 1 is a Gelugpa camp quite some way from our monastery. I can go and see if House 66 exists tomorrow but we have to be very careful at the moment, over a dozen people got killed here in the last few days with the protector controversy in nearby Sera, the police is all over the place and curfew are in place after 8pm. Today one of our camp people was also killed in front of his house, so we are a little careful about getting out. Dragpa Lama is one of the very ethical older monk who used to take care of finances before Lobsang took over. He was ousted by the latter a couple of years ago and does not have any official duties nor powers anymore as far as I know. I am surprised they would send money via him. They could send a deposit straight into the Charity account too. “Lay Girl” is totally impossible to check of course.. maybe this is somebody’s little joke (somebody's girl is getting laid). Lobsang has not been seen here for a couple of days at least, you may find that he maybe out of the country and heading your way– just a upposition but plausible in view of the circumstances.”

Cover Up Uncovered

Alyce Zeoli, who calls her @ahkonlhamo on Twitter, and "Jetsunma" everywhere else, tries to conceal the fact that she has a criminal record. But, here is the proof:

“State of Maryland vs. Alyce Zeoli”
Criminal case number: 5D00037826
Charge: Battery
The trial took place on November 8th, 1996, at 9:00am at the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery Country.

The Montgomery County Maryland Department of Police: G96228930
Date of original report: September 7, 1996
Investigating Officer: Lt. Jacocks
Statement of charges filed: September 9, 1996
Commissioner: A. Williams, I.D. 6563.
A supplement was added to G96228930 on September 27, 1996, that the case was closed by the arrest of Alyce Zeoli, a/k/a Jetsunma, a/k/a Akhon Lhamo Rinpoche