More Tyndale Martin and his Greatheart Monastery

  We got a ton of response when discussing Tyndale Martin's Buddhist/Catholic cult.
  As of this Jan. 2015 update Tyndale is still kicking around Montreal after fathering a reported 20 kids.
   One of his sons, John David Ross leaped to his death in 2008 from the 18th floor of the Delta Hotel. Others have done well. They carry their mothers' last names.
   Tyndale Martin reportedly spent 3 1/2 years in prison for bad stuff related to his daughters.
   Martin's rise began in the late 1960s when Tyndale was a poet and beatnik.
   Martin called himself a hippie in 1967, in an article where he addresses the plight of young people. He said that he "failed to set up a mature relationship with his parents."
   He set up his Greatheart Buddhist Monastery in 1969 and received funding from Catholics to set up a sort of school at 3664 Mountain unit 101. (Along with Robert Annechino, George West and Louis Cormier, among others)
   Here is a 1973 ad calling for 42 students to undertake a "full-time study of intelligence (Sutra) research)." According to another article, the Monastery in 1975 was located at the Marie E.C. Boyer house at 3474 Mountain (pictured above).
   According to reports Tyndale Martin's many female followers were required to have sex with him and each other. (see excellent video report here).
   That same article in 1981 claimed that a baby died after being left in a freezing basement but others have vigorously argued that this story is untrue. A baby did indeed die but it was a stillbirth affair with no irresponsible behavior involved..
   His cult combined aspects of five different faiths and received funding from many of them.
   Tyndale started with the Montreal Zen Meditation Centre and became more dominant after declaring himself the Panchen Lama
   He told a journalist: "I believe I have received the responsibility to carry on his work here in Montreal and in the west, I don't enjoy seeing myself as the Panchem Lama, for me it's a very serious responsibility and I have to be very careful in my personal life so that I don't work against the will of the holy spirit of God."
   Local Tibetan Buddhists insisted that Tyndale was not the Panchem Lama.
   By the mid-seventies he had a home in Dorion where he lived with 11 female followers while a dozen male adherents lived elsewhere.
   His movement fizzled after the media exposure. The male members weren't happy with disclosure of Martin's sexual dalliances. By 1977 many of them moved on to Ottawa.
   Eugene Larocque was himself soon after involved in a cover up where he admitted paying off a man with $32,000 who was accusing him of sexual molestation.
   We have another two items on Tyndale Martin, including this one with a photo.

Famous father

   Tyndale Martin's father Harold George Martin was also an evangelist who led the Christian Homes for Children, which was slammed in a 1961 article called "How to Make a Million in the Charity Game."
   After Tyndale grew up and moved out from their West island home, Harold George Martin purchased Singer Castle on Dark Island in the Thousand Islands, which he bought for $1 off of the LaSalle Christian Brothers in 1965.

George and Eloise - Tyndale's parents

   He changed the name to Jorstadt, as his name had originally been Martin-Jorstadt and lived there with wife Eloise Dorsey and conducted religious services there.
   Harold George Martin called himself a doctor but was in fact not really one. Harold and his wife Eloise attempted to sell the property for $5 million 1985 but found no buyers.
   Martin died in November 1999 and his son Wycliffe took over his religious sermons. In July 2002 the family sold the property for $1.8 million and it is now used for public tours, dubbed the Castle of Mystery.

   Harold George Martin previously had a home for orphaned boys and property in the Laurentians which he once rented to David Berg and Children of God. Berg died in 1994. His daughters have accused him of molesting them.

Tyndale Martin's dad lived here

   Now back to Tyndale Martin.
   We found this article from 1967 in which Martin, identified as a "hippie" speaks about the plight of young people and confesses that he "failed to set up a mature relationship with his parents." He set up his Greatheart Buddhist Monastery in 1969 and received funding from Catholics to set up a sort of school at 3664 Mountain unit 101. Here is a 1973 ad calling for 42 students to undertake a "full-time study of intelligence (Sutra) research)." According to another article, the Monastery in 1975 was located at the Marie E.C. Boyer house at 3474 Mountain (pictured above).