For some thirty years, Olivier Raurich was the main interpreter in France for Sogyal Rinpoche, the best-selling author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. In addition to his work in higher education, for over twenty years he chaired the French branch of Rigpa, the association founded by the Tibetan “spiritual master”. Olivier Raurich thus had a front-row seat to witness the gradual drift of this man born and raised in Tibet, educated at Cambridge in England, gifted and an excellent orator, whose extravagances did not hinder his influence, and who even managed to seduce political figures in France, where he set up his main center near Montpellier. The ex-disciple recounts in the first person his discovery of Buddhist wisdom, the initiations he received, his encounters with magnificent Tibetan figures; but he also bears witness to the way in which Sogyal took advantage of his magnetism to string together a string of female adventures and then become an authoritarian, even delusional, sexual abuser. In 2014, Olivier Raurich decided to break with him, and then to publicly break the omerta (for omerta there was, under the benevolent aegis of the Dalai Lama, who would not publicly denounce his “friend Sogyal Rinpoche” until 2017). Today, he analyses without complacency the responsibilities of the various players and witnesses to this human disaster, fostered by the Tibetan tradition of absolute devotion to the “master”. An invaluable document on the process of domination, when it is presented in a “spiritual” light.