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Buddhist Union’s Cultural Relativism and Moral Leniency Increase Risk of Long-term Abuse The Dutch Buddhist Union's non-binding stance on sexual abuse is not new, for it has been its go-to approach since the early 1990s. For decades, its members' indifference to abuse and aversion to what they call 'moralism' has led to an entrenched focus on optics that must hide their tolerance of abuse, secrecy and circumvention of its self-imposed rules. https://openbuddhism.org/blog/2024/buddhist-unions-cultural-relativism-and-moral-leniency-increase-risk-of-long-term-abuse/