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

[Richard Basham]

Another strong statement:

Lineage Delusions: Eido Shimano Roshi, Dharma Transmission, and American Zen
By Erik Fraser Storlie, SweepingZen.com, Feb 8, 2011

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) -- In August 2010 The New York Times exposed the persistent failure of both the Zen Studies Society of New York and the larger American Zen Buddhist community to address Eido Shimano Roshi’s forty year history of sexual abuse of women – and the desire, even now, to excuse or “explain” him.  Equally distressing were Robert Aitken’s posthumous letters, recently made available, revealing that Aitken, a deeply respected founder in American Zen, had lied for decades about Shimano’s misconduct in order to protect, as Aitken explained it, “the American Dharma.”

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