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• W348124229 abstract "Introduction Sandra Bell begins her exciting chapter on Scandals in Emerging Western in Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia with a reference to a meeting of twenty-two Western Dharma teachers with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala in the spring of 1993. They gathered to discuss the problems involved in the transmission of the Buddhadharma from East to West, and particularly those focusing on the role and ethical responsibilities of spiritual teachers. The results of that important meeting were captured in a stirring video called the Spirit of Free Inquiry: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Western Buddhist Teachers, produced by Meridian Trust and published by Parallax Press. Clearly, the most significant portions of that video are those that focus on sexual ethics and sexism, with penetrating questions and discussion offered by Tenzin Palmo, Sylvia Wetzel, Martine Batchelor, and other women participants. Bell frames the discussion by declaring early in the chapter: In contemporary Britain and North America, Buddhists are most likely to be well-educated, white, middle-class folk of liberal persuasion who display permissive attitudes toward their teachers' eccentric behavior and minor indiscretions. But events have shown that tolerance breaks down when teachers make persistent use of the power they wield over their followers to obtain material goods and sexual favors. I will argue that scandals resulting from this kind of conduct by teachers are most likely to occur in organizations that are in transition between the pure forms of charismatic authority that brought them into being and more rational, corporate forms of organization. (231) Bell chooses to focus on two particular American Buddhist communities, the San Francisco Zen Center and Shambhala International (which was previously known as Vajradhatu and Nalanda Foundation). She doesn't choose them because they are the worst representations of misconduct, but rather because she was able to fully investigate each. Early in my career I also had the good fortune to visit and spend significant time at each of these Buddhist communities. In 1974 I was invited to teach Sanskrit, and in 1975 a module on Indian Buddhism, at the then-called Naropa Institute (more recently, it has changed its name to Naropa University). During the academic year 1978-79, I spent my first academic sabbatical in Berkeley, California researching American Buddhist communities in the Bay Area. As such, the San Francisco Zen Center was just a short drive from my home base at the Graduate Theological Union. In each case, these highly influential and popular Buddhist communities were in the midst of serious difficulties surrounding the above mentioned behavior of their Buddhist teachers, Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche in the former case and Richard Baker, Roshi in the latter. My style of doing fieldwork research has changed very little in the more than thirty years that has passed since those initial forays into American Buddhist communities. Then and now, I try to be invisible. Instead of appearing as a credentialed Buddhological researcher, filled with questions, inquiries, and opinions, I simply appear and watch, as often as possible. At Naropa Institute, this was quite easy, as I had very few Sanskrit students in 1974, and not many more in my Indian Buddhism module in 1975. I was known to my Buddhological colleagues Reginald Ray, Janice Nattier, and Larry Mermelstein--and of course to Trungpa Rinpoche--but not to many others in the Vajradhatu/Nalanda Foundation community. This gave me immense flexibility and access to lectures, meditation sessions, discussions, parties, and general hanging out. Years later, in San Francisco, I was even less visible; and I doubt that anyone in the SFZC community even knew I had attended events, meditation occasions, or Dharma lectures. My first book on American Buddhism had just been published, and probably was not read by many (if any) community members, and certainly they would not have known me from my quiet work on Indian Buddhist monasticism and sectarianism. …" @default.
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• W348124229 title "Mahayana Ethics and American Buddhism: Subtle Solutions or Creative Perversions?" @default.
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