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In 1972 he received [[Dharma transmission]] from Soen Nakagawa, and is [[abbot]] of the Zen Studies Society, which consists of the [[New York Zendo Shobo-Ji]] and [[Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji]] monastery.<ref name="ford">Zen Master Who?, 113-115</ref><ref>Luminous Passage, 11</ref> In 2004 Eido Shimano Roshi received the Buddhism Transmission Award from the Japan-based Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Foundation given to individuals who have made a significant impact on the dissemination of Buddhism in the West;<ref>Zen Studies Society Newsletter, 2004, p. 22</ref> this same organization produced a two part TV documentary on Eido Shimano Roshi and [[Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji]].<ref>[http://www.dharmanet.org/videobdk.htm DharmaNet International] Retrieved on August 22, 2008</ref>
In 1972 he received [[Dharma transmission]] from Soen Nakagawa, and is [[abbot]] of the Zen Studies Society, which consists of the [[New York Zendo Shobo-Ji]] and [[Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji]] monastery.<ref name="ford">Zen Master Who?, 113-115</ref><ref>Luminous Passage, 11</ref> In 2004 Eido Shimano Roshi received the Buddhism Transmission Award from the Japan-based Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Foundation given to individuals who have made a significant impact on the dissemination of Buddhism in the West;<ref>Zen Studies Society Newsletter, 2004, p. 22</ref> this same organization produced a two part TV documentary on Eido Shimano Roshi and [[Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji]].<ref>[http://www.dharmanet.org/videobdk.htm DharmaNet International] Retrieved on August 22, 2008</ref>


===Abuse Allegations===
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There have been numbers of instances of allegations of sexual and financial improprieties against Shimano.<ref name="isbn0-520-21301-7"/><ref name="isbn0-313-32491-3">{{cite book |author=Morgan, Diane |title=The Buddhist experience in America |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Conn |year=2004 |page= 187 |isbn=0-313-32491-3 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>Tworkov pp. 190-1</ref> Accusations of inappropriate sexual relations with two emotionally vulnerable female Zen students in Hawaii led to a rift with Robert Aitken.<ref name="isbn0-941532-57-7"/><ref name="Tworkov p. 189"/> Further allegations of extra-marital relationships were made in New York in 1975, 1979 and 1982.<ref>{{cite book |author=Connie, PhD. Dawson; Zweig, Connie |title=The Holy Longing: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Yearning |publisher=Jeremy P. Tarcher |location=New York |year=2003 |page = 144 |isbn=1-58542-204-5 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>Tworkov p. 190-91</ref><ref name="isbn0-941532-57-7"/> These led to departures of students and members from the ZSS.<ref name="isbn0-520-21301-7">{{cite book |author=Tanaka, Kenneth Ken'ichi; Prebish, Charles S. |title=The faces of Buddhism in America |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1998 |pages= 239|isbn=0-520-21301-7 |oclc= |url= http://books.google.ca/books?id=t6Y3D4sZ8gQC&pg=PA239 |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>Wilson, 58</ref><ref>Tworkov p. 189-90</ref>
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In July 2010, Eido Shimano and his wife resigned from the ZSS Board of Directors after a "recent inappropriate relationship" between Shimano and one of his female students was revealed.<ref name=nyt/><ref name="The Zen Studies Society">{{cite web |url=http://www.daibosatsu.org/ethical.html |title=The Zen Studies Society |publisher=www.daibosatsu.org |accessdate=2010-08-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tricycle.com/blog/?p=2067 |title= Statement from Zen Studies Society |publisher=Tricycle |accessdate=2010-07-21 }}</ref> Shimano sent a letter of apology to the ZSS community in September 2010, stating that he would retire as abbot of the Zen Studies Society in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tricycle.com/blog/?p=2271 |title= A message from Eido Shimano |publisher=Tricycle |accessdate=2010-09-08 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web

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In July 2010, Eido Shimano and his wife resigned from the ZSS Board of Directors after a "recent inappropriate relationship" between Shimano and one of his female students was revealed.<ref name=nyt/><ref name="The Zen Studies Society">{{cite web |url=http://www.daibosatsu.org/ethical.html |title=The Zen Studies Society |publisher=www.daibosatsu.org |accessdate=2010-08-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tricycle.com/blog/?p=2067 |title= Statement from Zen Studies Society |publisher=Tricycle |accessdate=2010-07-21 }}</ref> The following September, Shimano sent a letter of apology to the ZSS community, expressing "a profound feeling of remorse for my actions" and stating that he would retire as abbot of the Zen Studies Society in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tricycle.com/blog/?p=2271 |title= A message from Eido Shimano |publisher=Tricycle |accessdate=2010-09-08 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
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}}</ref> There had been previous allegations of sexual and financial improprieties.<ref name="isbn0-520-21301-7"/><ref name="isbn0-313-32491-3">{{cite book |author=Morgan, Diane |title=The Buddhist experience in America |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Conn |year=2004 |page= 187 |isbn=0-313-32491-3 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>Tworkov pp. 190-1</ref> Misconduct allegations in Hawaii led to a rift with Aitken.<ref name="isbn0-941532-57-7"/><ref name="Tworkov p. 189"/> Further allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with female students, which he denied, were made in New York in 1975, 1979 and 1982,<ref>{{cite book |author=Connie, PhD. Dawson; Zweig, Connie |title=The Holy Longing: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Yearning |publisher=Jeremy P. Tarcher |location=New York |year=2003 |page = 144 |isbn=1-58542-204-5 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>Tworkov p. 190-91</ref><ref name="isbn0-941532-57-7"/> and led to departures from the Society.<ref name="isbn0-520-21301-7">{{cite book |author=Tanaka, Kenneth Ken'ichi; Prebish, Charles S. |title=The faces of Buddhism in America |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1998 |pages= 239|isbn=0-520-21301-7 |oclc= |url= http://books.google.ca/books?id=t6Y3D4sZ8gQC&pg=PA239 |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>Wilson, 58</ref><ref>Tworkov p. 189-90</ref> In 2010 the New York Times reported that until recently "affairs [between teachers and students] were not always condemned, or even disapproved of" in American Buddhist circles.<ref name=nyt/>



==Dharma heirs==
==Dharma heirs==

Revision as of 19:15, 3 October 2010

Eido Tai Shimano
TitleRoshi
Personal
Born1932
Tokyo, Japan
SchoolRinzai
Senior posting
Based inZen Studies Society
New York Zendo Shobo-Ji
Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji
PredecessorSoen Nakagawa

Eido Tai Shimano (嶋野 栄道, Shimano Eidō, born 1932) is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist master and roshi, the first to establish a Rinzai lineage in the United States. He is the abbot of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery in Catskills.

Biography

Childhood

Eido Shimano was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1932. When he was nine years old and in third grade, the war between America and Japan began. The teacher ordered all children to study, chant and memorize the Heart Sutra. This was his first encounter with a Buddhist scripture. One summer while playing in the temple grounds not far from his house, he saw two Buddhist pilgrims chanting a sutra. When he recognized this was the Heart Sutra that he knew, he was moved to tears and ran home to tell his mother.[1] During the war the Shimano family moved to Chichibu, the mountain city where his mother was born.[2]

Youth and ordination

In his youth Shimano was ordained as unsui by Kengan Goto, the priest of Empuku-ji, the Rinzai temple in Chichibu. Kengan Goto gave him the Dharma name Eido, composed from first characters of Eisai Zenji’s name, who introduced Rinzai Zen to Japan, and Dogen Zenji’s, who introduced Soto Zen. Rev. Goto taught him how to chant sutras, arrange altars and manage the temple. Eido Shimano also gained some experience in construction while Empuku-ji was being renovated.[3]

Later he was trained by Shirozou Keizan Roshi, abbot of Heirin-ji near Tokyo. This was a monastery with authentic Rinzai Zen training and strict discipline. In the spring of 1954 when the old retired abbot passed away, many roshis came for the funeral service. One young roshi, who was a new abbot of Ryutaku-ji, caught Shimano’s attention. That summer, after more than two years in Heirin-ji, Shimano left.[4]

He entered Ryutaki-ji in October 1954 and began practice with Soen Nakagawa Roshi, the young roshi who had caught his attention that spring.[5] The following year Nyogen Senzaki visited the temple from America and left a lasting impression on Shimano.[6] In 1957 Soen Roshi asked Shimano to go to America for one year to attend old Nyogen Senzaki. After much consideration Shimano agreed, but in 1958 in the midst of preparations to leave, the news about Nyogen Senzaki passing away reached Ryutaku-ji.[7]

The shock of Senzaki’s death and years of overly intense practice resulted in illness and Shimano had to spend half a year in hospital, after which he returned to Ryutaku-ji. Soen Roshi again asked him to go to Hawaii to help to lead a small Zen group founded by his lay students, but Shimano lost his enthusiasm about going to America. After Soen Roshi’s persuasion that going to Hawaii would be good for both his on-going recuperation and his academic studies which he could continue at the University of Hawaii, Shimano agreed to go.[8]

Move to America

On August 21, 1960 Shimano boarded the ship for America. His friend Dr. Bernard Phillips, an American Zen scholar, was returning home on the same boat, after doing research in Japan sponsored by the Zen Studies Society. Without any prior arrangements, they ended up in the same cabin.[9]

On August 28, 1960 Shimano arrived to Honolulu, Hawaii to help at the Diamond Sangha founded by Nakagawa students Robert Baker Aitken and his wife, Anne Hopkins Aitken. Shimano later returned to Japan and met Haku'un Yasutani, accompanying him and Nakagawa back to the United States. In 1964, after a rift developed with Aitken,[10][11] he moved to New York. In 1965, he became the abbot of Zen Studies Society with a Manhattan headquarters and a monastery in the Catskills.[12]

Transmission

In 1972 he received Dharma transmission from Soen Nakagawa, and is abbot of the Zen Studies Society, which consists of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery.[13][14] In 2004 Eido Shimano Roshi received the Buddhism Transmission Award from the Japan-based Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Foundation given to individuals who have made a significant impact on the dissemination of Buddhism in the West;[15] this same organization produced a two part TV documentary on Eido Shimano Roshi and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji.[16]

Abuse Allegations

There have been numbers of instances of allegations of sexual and financial improprieties against Shimano.[17][18][19] Accusations of inappropriate sexual relations with two emotionally vulnerable female Zen students in Hawaii led to a rift with Robert Aitken.[10][11] Further allegations of extra-marital relationships were made in New York in 1975, 1979 and 1982.[20][21][10] These led to departures of students and members from the ZSS.[17][22][23]

Retirement

In July 2010, Eido Shimano and his wife resigned from the ZSS Board of Directors after a "recent inappropriate relationship" between Shimano and one of his female students was revealed.[12][24][25] The following September, Shimano sent a letter of apology to the ZSS community, expressing "a profound feeling of remorse for my actions" and stating that he would retire as abbot of the Zen Studies Society in December 2010.[26][27]

Dharma heirs

Bibliography

  • Shimano, Eido (1997). Shōbōgenzō: being-time. Encre marine. ISBN 2909422240. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Shimano, Eido (1999). Shōbōgenzō: only buddha knows buddha, life-death. Encre marine. ISBN 2909422372. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • "Japanese Views of Religion as Opposed to Those of the West". Journal of Japanese trade & industry. 15 (6). Japan Economic Foundation. 1996. ISSN 0285-9556. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Shimano, Eido (2005). The Book of Rinzai: The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Rinzai (Linji). Zen Studies Society Press. ISBN 0976989409. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Shimano, Eido (1992). Zen Word, Zen Calligraphy. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 087773643X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Shimano, Eido (1991). Points of Departure: Zen Buddhism with a Rinzai View. Zen Studies Society Press. OCLC 26097869. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Shimano, Eido (1979). Golden Wind: Zen Talks. Harper & Row. ISBN 0870404490. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Shimano, Eido ed. (1978). Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy. Japan Publications. ISBN 0870404342

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 166
  2. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 170
  3. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 170-171
  4. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 171
  5. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 171
  6. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 172-173
  7. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 176-177
  8. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 180
  9. ^ Senzaki et al. p. 180
  10. ^ a b c Smith, Huston; Harry Oldmeadow (2004). Journeys east: 20th century Western encounters with Eastern religious traditions. Bloomington, Ind: World Wisdom. pp. 298–99. ISBN 0-941532-57-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ a b Tworkov p. 189
  12. ^ a b Oppenheimer, Mark (August 20, 2010). "Sex Scandal Has American Buddhists Looking Within". New York Times. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  13. ^ Zen Master Who?, 113-115
  14. ^ Luminous Passage, 11
  15. ^ Zen Studies Society Newsletter, 2004, p. 22
  16. ^ DharmaNet International Retrieved on August 22, 2008
  17. ^ a b Tanaka, Kenneth Ken'ichi; Prebish, Charles S. (1998). The faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 239. ISBN 0-520-21301-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Morgan, Diane (2004). The Buddhist experience in America. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 187. ISBN 0-313-32491-3.
  19. ^ Tworkov pp. 190-1
  20. ^ Connie, PhD. Dawson; Zweig, Connie (2003). The Holy Longing: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Yearning. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher. p. 144. ISBN 1-58542-204-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Tworkov p. 190-91
  22. ^ Wilson, 58
  23. ^ Tworkov p. 189-90
  24. ^ "The Zen Studies Society". www.daibosatsu.org. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
  25. ^ "Statement from Zen Studies Society". Tricycle. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
  26. ^ "A message from Eido Shimano". Tricycle. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
  27. ^ "The Zen Studies Society". zenstudies.org. Retrieved 8 September 2010.

References

  • Aitken, Robert (1997). Original Dwelling Place. Counterpoint. ISBN 1-887178-41-4. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861715098. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Senzaki, Nyogen; Nakagawa, Soen; Shimano, Eido. Nordstrom, Louis (ed.). Namu Dai Bosa: a transmission of Zen Buddhism to America. Bhaisajaguru. New York: Theatre Arts Books. ASIN B001R6G1X6, LCCN 76-0.
  • Prebish, Charles S. (1999). Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. ISBN 0520216970. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Tworkov, Helen (1989). Zen in America. North Point Press. ISBN 0865473544. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Wilson, Jeff (2000). The Buddhist Guide to New York. Macmillan. ISBN 0312267150. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Yasutani, Hakuun. Jaffe, Paul (1996) Flowers Fall: A commentary on Zen Master Dogen's Genjokoan. Shambala. ISBN 1570621039

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