A new member brought him up as someone he's had personal experience of, the worst kind. The kinds of things he mentioned, fraud, lies, and above all emotional and physical abuse of followers, would normally put someone under Fraud right away.
But Hansard claims to be a Tibetan Buddhist healer, which is something I know little about. For now he'll stay under Research Needed, but will likely get moved to Fraud as soon as we get evidence that confirms the abuse.
There's a blog devoted just to Hansard that sums up quite a bit. At the bottom there's a number of British sources. Could our members over there help us track these down?
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http://christopherhansard.blogspot.com/.....Here are the central points that demolished Hansard's claims.
1) Dur-Bon is an archaic traditional practice which does not involve medicine or healing whatsoever.
2) There, is amongst the traditional and authentic Tibean Bon tradition no recognition or practise of 'Dur-Bon'
3) Written and spoken Tibetan is required to learn, and achieve a full understanding of genuine Tibetan medicine, Hansard is fluent in neither.
4) The so-called 'Tibetan Bon Community', which Hansard claimed predicted his birth, is completely unknown to the actual Tibetan Bon Community.
5) The teacher Hansard claimed came from the remote wilds of Amdo would be most unlikely to have learned sufficient English, to tutor a four-year old New Zealand boy in the complex mysteries of Tibetan medicine.
6) Based upon a reasonable estimation of Hansard's age, his supposed Tibetan 'teacher' would have been required to obtain travel authorization from the Communist Chinese Regime, during a period when Tibet was sealed-off from the outside world, and religious persecution and cultural destruction was being visited upon Tibetans. This is highly unlikely.
7) The 'tribe' Hansard claims his 'teacher' came from, the so-called Ngam, is completely unknown to Tibetan Bon scholars and does not appear as a clan name on authentic Tibetan Bon texts.
The name Hansard gives as his 'teacher', 'Urgyen' is not a Tibetan-Bon name, its is a Tibetan Buddhist name, closely linked to the Nyingmapa tradition.
9) There is no correspondence of "twelve teachings", which Hansard describes, within the traditional and genuine native religion of Tibetan Bon.
10) The so-called 'Northern Treasure School' Hansard claims as his 'lineage' is in fact not a school at all, but is based upon texts found in the Northern part of Tibet.
11) Not a single individual has been able to provide objctive and verifiable information to corroborate any aspect of Hansard's claims. Moreover a number of 'reviewers' of his books have proved to be Hansard's fictitious creations, as demonstrated by the singular lack of proof concerning their claimed identity, career, and location.
12) Hansard's claims to be Physician of Tibetan medicine were exposed (in an affidavit) as completely misleading and baseless, by Doctor Barry Clark an internationally respected and qualified Doctor of Tibetan medicine .
There are many other inconsistencies and troubling questions concerning Hansard's bizarre account, these were publicly challenged by Jeff Bowe, whose research thoroughly exposed the claims and background of Christopher Hansard, as being a cynical and self-serving invention. His misrepresentation and exploitation, of the Tibetan Bon tradition, has been explored in depth elsewhere, details of which may be found in the previous postings on this Blog.
Apart from such a parasitic and systematic distortion, darker concerns were to surface, these centred around his practice, at the thankfully now defunct, ‘Eden Medical Center’. Former clients made allegations of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, these disturbing reports were eventually submitted to London’s Metropolitan Police and the organization Witness Against Abuse.
Following such exposure, public examination via the Internet, and with the concerned attention of authorities, such as London’s Westminster Trading Standards Office, it was perhaps inevitable to note the sudden closure of his former center. The self-styled ‘Master Physician’ had run to ground it seemed. Not quite. A brief attempt to resurrect his reputation, and one imagines lucrative career, was attempted from less glamorous premises in London’s Victoria district, much to the alarm of local traders, who had it seems been notified of the questions surrounding their new neighbor. Despite several visits by a number of officials Chris’s door remained firmly closed, and calls answered with silence....
