[Buddha-l] Oops--Article is from NY Times

[Stuart Lachs]

Dan wrote

> The article appeared on August 20th. It can be found at
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/us/21beliefs.htm

The Times article links to the paper, "The Aitken-Shimano Letters" that Vlad 
K. and I did jointly at the end of last year.
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/CriticalZen/Aitken_Shimano_Letters.html


An article that for fear of lawsuit was never published in the Village Voice 
in 1982 gives
an interesting view of the Zen Studies Society as well as the author's 
personal encounter with Shimano,
which prompted her writing the article.
http://www.shimanoarchive.com/PDF%27s/19820400R_Zen_Seduction.html


What may be of interest is an August 9, 1995 letter to the President of the 
Board of Directors of the Zen Studies Society from Aitken,  Kapleau, and six 
other Zen teachers outlining "three decades" of hearing of
Shimano breaking the trust of his students, manipulative, exploitative, and 
damaging relationsips...
http://www.shimanoarchive.com/PDF%27s/19950809R_ZenTeachers_ZSS.pdf

To date, the archive  goes through 8/02/2010 ending with
Robert Aitken's last interview (audio only), three days before he died with 
excerpts
from his comments on Eido Shimano.

For those interested in following the issue in more depth, the full archive 
of 335 files is avaiable at,
www.shimanoarchive.com/

The article has gone "viral" on the internet, see
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=Sex+Scandal+Has+U.S.+Buddhists+Looking+Within&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=


Stuart