Eido Shimano Roshi’s Letter to The New York Times
by Danny Fisher
I’ve previously written about the “Shimano Archive”, a collection of letters held at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Library Archives, and the furor surrounding their contents. Al Jigen Billings over at Open Buddha brings us the latest: a copy of Eido Shimano Roshi’s letter to The New York Times news editor in response to their August 20th, 2010, article “Sex Scandal Has U.S. Buddhists Looking Within”, which discussed the whole matter.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should say again that I was interviewed for the Times piece by its author Mark Oppenheimer. Mr. Oppenheimer wanted to talk to me because, apparently, the mention of the Shimano Archive in one of my Shambhala Sun Space posts was the first instance he could find of that specific holding discussed by a mainstream publication. Though I was not quoted in the final article (I’m not close to the situation at all), I was glad to see that Mr. Oppenheimer consulted an important article by Katy Butler that I recommended. (You should all read it too if you haven’t.)
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