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References & Footnotes number 801-1000

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[801] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_B._Steger (access 7 Nov 2024)
[802] Baroni, Helen J. Casting IndraÕs Net across the Pacific: Robert Aitken and the Growth of the Diamond Sangha as a Trans-Pacific Zen Movement, Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022, Vol.23(2), about 10,000 words on 20 unnumbered pages. https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.jgb.2022.1994 (access 7 Nov 2024)
[803] https://sites.google.com/site/robertaitkenroshi/ (access 8 Nov 2024)
[804] https://web.archive.org/web/20181228190628/http://princetonzengroup.org/ (access 8 Nov 2024)
[805] https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/besserman-perle-1948 (access 8 Nov 2024)
[806] https://web.archive.org/web/20090105171029/https://princetonzengroup.org/teachers.html (access 8 Nov 2024)
[807] https://web.archive.org/web/20180903104942/http://princetonzengroup.org/teachers.html (access 8 Nov 2024)
[808] https://web.archive.org/web/20150929070610/http://www.princetonzengroup.org:80/teachers.html (access 8 Nov 2024)
[809] https://web.archive.org/web/20180903104942/http://princetonzengroup.org/teachers.html (access 8 Nov 2024)
[810] https://princetonzengroup.org/index.php/teachers (access 9 Nov 2024)
[811] http://www.toshoji.com/masters.htm (access 10 Nov 2024)
[812] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2017/05/introducing-roshi-douglas-keido-sanun-phillips.html (access 10 Nov 2024)
[813] https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-paul-gerstein-yx7q5 [in Nov 2024 dr P. Gerstein was 73yo = DOB 1951?] (access 11 Nov 2024)
[814] https://www.zoominfo.com/c/living-dharma-center-inc/350857389 (access 11 Nov 2024)
[815] "In December of 2010 I designated Paul Gerstein as my first Dharma heir and successor. In 2011 Norma Salter followed Paul as my second Dharma heir. Both Paul and Norma have studied with me approximately 25 years [2011-25?=1986?. 1986? year applies only to Norma Salter as Gerstein was a student of Richard Clarke since 1983, #814 - tmc] and have been cultivating their Awakening through long and devoted Zen training, including the traditional koans. Both are worthy Sensei in our Living Dharma Center." src: https://livingdharmacenter.org/living_dharma_center.html (access 11 Nov 2024)
[816] https://zmc.org/blog/2011/08/training-period-looms/ & https://zmc.org/blog/2011/11/occupy-yokoji/ (access 13 Nov 2024)
[817] "Dear Dr Ciolek, A grateful bow for the work you do maintaining the Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library!
I thought I would submit a couple of updates relating to the branch of the Kapleau line in Sweden.

Updates to existing teacher records:
Odland, Kanja Ð received dharma transmission from Bodhin Kjolhede in 2006 and now has the title Roshi. [1]
Mikael Sante Poromaa Ð received dharma transmission from Bodhin Kjolhede in 2002 and now has the title Roshi. [1]

New teachers in the Odland-Poromaa Line :
Sangen Salo (Sensei) Ð Authorised to teach in 2018. Received dharma transmission in 2022. Teacher at Helsinki Zen Center, Finland. [2]
Dharman …dman (Sensei) Ð Authorised to teach in 2019. Teacher at Gšteborg Zen Center, Sweden. [3]
Mitra Virtaperko (Sensei) Ð Authorised to teach in 2021. Teacher at Tampere Zen Center, Finland. [3]
Kansan Zetterberg (Sensei) Ð Authorised to teach in 2024. [4]

References
[1] https://www.rzc.org/about/50-year-timeline/
[2] https://sanneji.zazen.fi/en/teacher-sangen-salo/
[3] https://www.goteborgzencenter.se/
[4] https://www.instagram.com/p/DAtyJpbuTKL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
I hope this is helpful. Thank you again! Best wishes, Alice", Alice Kelly, email, 18 Nov 2024
[818] https://www.rzc.org/about/50-year-timeline/ (access 19 Nov 2024)
[819] https://sanneji.zazen.fi/en/teacher-sangen-salo/ (access 19 Nov 2024)
[820] https://www.goteborgzencenter.se/ (access 19 Nov 2024)
[821] https://www.instagram.com/p/DAtyJpbuTKL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== (access 19 Nov 2024)
[822] https://fredericklenzfoundation.org/pacific-zen-institute/ (access 19 Nov 2024)
[823] "Hello Mr. Ciolek,
I am on the clergy of the Buddhist Temple of Toledo. Thank you for your American transmission records! If you would kindly update your records, I have a new name to add. Thank you for considering it.
In the John Tarrant line, through James Ishmael ZENŌ MYŌUN Ford, through Jay Ryudo Rinsen Weik.
Weik, Karen Ryudo Do'on received Denbo/Sensei transmission from Jay Ryudo Rinsen Weik in 2022, and Inka Shomei/Roshi in 2024.
"Karen DoÕon Weik Sensei is a Soto Zen priest and co-founder of the Buddhist Temple of Toledo and the Drinking Gourd Institute. Rev. Do'on received Denkai transmission from Rinsen on August 15, 2015, followed by Denbo transmission in April 2022. She is also influenced by the teachings of Gelek Rimpoche. She began her Zen studies while in college in the 1980s. For the first ten years of her practice, her teacher was Richard Clarke. She met her husband, Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik, at the Shobu Aikido of Boston in 1993. By 1994, they were studying Zen together with John Daido Loori, late-Abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskills and then, in 2004, with Bonnie Myotai Treace Sensei, Daido roshiÕs first dharma heir. In 2009, she was confirmed as a Senior Dharma Teacher and ordained as a Zen Buddhist Priest by Melissa Roshi in the Soto lineage in February 2010. Rev. Do-on was acknowledged as Shuso in Feb of 2012."
https://www.buddhisttempleoftoledo.org/teachers
If you need more information, you can let me know and I will be happy to provide it. Thank you! Bows, Anken", Casey Anken Gsell, email, 21 Nov 2024.
[824] https://www.buddhisttempleoftoledo.org/teachers (access 21 Nov 2024)
[825] https://www.chicagozen.org/yusan-graham-sensei (access 21 Nov 2024)
[826] https://www.chicagozen.org/shodhin-geiman-sensei-abbot (access 21 Nov 2024)
[827] https://www.valpo.edu/search/?scope=Geiman (access 21 Nov 2024)
[828] https://philpeople.org/profiles/shodhin-kevin-geiman & https://journals.sagepub.com Ý doi Ý 10.1177 Ý 019145379001600102 (access 31 Nov 2024)
[829] On 5 Apr 2001 on the PZI teachers' web page, Joan Sutherland is referred to as 'Roshi': https://web.archive.org/web/20010516212848/http://www.pacificzen.org/ (version 5 Apr 2001)
[830] https://www.northwestdharma.org/news/Fall10/threetreasures.php (access 22 Nov 2024)
[831] https://second.wiki/wiki/genro_koudela & https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genro_Koudela (access 23 Nov 2024)
[832] In Jan-Feb 1998 California Diamond Sangha's publication, Joan Sutherland is referred to as 'Sensei': https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_california-diamond-sangha-newsletter_january-february-1998 (access 1 Nov 2024)
[833] Habito, Ruben L.F. In Memoriam: Yamada Kōun Rōshi (1907-1989), pp. 231-237 [in:] Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 10 (1990), https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Yamada_Koun.pdf (access 24 Nov 2024)
[834] In Memoriam - Members Who Have Passed: Alfred Jitsudo ANCHETA (1943-2020), Margaret Ne-Eka BARRAGATO (1945-2013), Stefano Mui BARRAGATO (1930-2010), Madeline Koi BASTIS (1940-2007), Charlotte Joko BECK (1913-2011), Raul Etsubai Ensho BERGE (1945-2017), Bruce Seiryu BLACKMAN (1942-2019), Merle Kodo Plum-Dragon BOYD (1944-2022), Malgosia Jiho BRAUNEK (1947-2014), John Daishin BUKSBAZEN (1939-2022), Mitchell Doshin CANTOR (1935-2021), Barbara Shoshin CRAIG (R.S.M., 1932-2022), Rose Mary Myoan DOUGHERTY (1939-2019), Patrick Kundo EASTMAN (1937 - 2023), John Shodo FLATT (1913-1994), Bernie Tetsugen GLASSMAN (1939-2018), Robert Kaku GUNN (1943-2021), Pia Jinji GYGER (1940-2014), Jules Shuzen HARRIS (1939-2023), Lex Jikai HIXON (1941-1995), Sandra Jishu HOLMES (1941-1998), Anjo Koren KASMAN (1956-2016), Philip Sengetsu KOLMAN (1939-2020), Robert Sokan LEE (1926-2018), Marli Jifu Daigen LINDEBOOM (1950-2022), John Daido LOORI (1931-2009), Peter Muryo MATTHIESSEN (1927-2014), Hakuyu Taizan MAEZUMI (1931-1995), Don Ani SINGER (1935-2023), Ann Ankai WAGNER (1937-2023), Sydney Musai WALTER (1935-2019). https://whiteplum.org/in-memoriam/ (access 25 Nov 2024)
[835] https://zenpeacemakers.org/zpi-publishing/remembrance-sandra-jishu-angyo-holmes/ (access 25 Nov 2024)
[836] Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle Open Letter To John Tarrant
"December 16, 1999
Dear John,
We are writing out of our various relationships with you [...]
Over the past three years [= 1996-1999 - tmc], we have received from your aggrieved members of your sangha numerous, unsolicited complaints of misconduct on your part. [...]
Several of us have received your private acknowledgement that there is substance to at least some of the complaints and that you feel remorse for some of youre actions. Others of us have been rebuffed, criticized, or ignored. [...]
At this point, we have seen and heard enough to know that you stand accused of serious, persistent abuses of power and boundary violations by a significant number of former ifficers and members of CDS, many of whom regarded themselves as dear friends of yours. This is not simply an in-house problem [....]
Many of us feel we have waited far too patiently already, giving too much heed to your needs, too little heed to the needs of those who left the CDS bitter and agonised, in some cases emotionally or psychologically devastated [...]
In particular, we ask that you commit yourself genuinely and publicly to [...] examining how your words or actions might have caused or occasioned their suffering, and - where warranted and desired - embarking with them on a course of restorative justice [...]
With gassho, Robert Aitken, Augusto Alcalde, Subhana Barzaghi, Gillian Coote, Jack Duffy, Nelson Foster, Pat Hawk, Danan Henry, Leonard Marcel, Marian Morgan"
Src: Sydney Zen Center Newsletter, Feb-March 2000, pp. 4-5. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/DOCS/szc-newsletter-feb-mar-2000.pdf
[837] Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker, Feb 2011,
An Open Letter on Journalistic Integrity and the Shambhala Sun [re. J. Tarrant's eulogy of the late Robert Aitken (1917-2010), the November 2010 Shambhala Sun magazine] "[...] Dr. Tarrant's relationship with Aitken Roshi ruptured in the late 1990s and never recovered. Concerned that Dr. Tarrant's approach to Zen had gone seriously awry, for a year Aitken Roshi discreetly pressed him to pull his group out of the Diamond Sangha. This unhappy separation finally took place in 1999 but turned out to be a prelude to an even more painful break: when repeated and persuasive allegations of misconduct on Dr. Tarrant's part -- professional (in his work as a psychotherapist), sexual, and organizational -- came to light, after private efforts to encourage resolution proved unsuccessful, Aitken Roshi and ten other Diamond Sangha teachers issued [in 2000] an open letter [see the link at #836], urging their former colleague to mend his ways. Dr. Tarrant reacted angrily. Communication between the two men came to an end. [...]"
Nelson Foster, Ring of Bone Zendo, Dharma heir of Aitken Roshi and
Jack Shoemaker, Editorial director, Counterpoint Press Literary Executor for Robert Aitken
https://thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Miscellaneous/Journalistic_Integrity_and_the_Shambhala_Sun.html
[838] J. Tarrant's Nov 2010 obituary of Robert Aitken; https://thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Miscellaneous/Robert_Aitken_Amazing_Life.html
[839] On 172 pages of the Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life (2004) Tarrant's book that "offers an unusual path into happiness" (2004, p.11) there are only three mentions of the word "religion", four mentions of "Buddhism", two mentions of "Christianity", one of "Hinduism", zero of "Judaism", zero of "Islam" zero mentions of "moral" or "morality", zero mentions of "ethical" or "ethics", zero mentions of "precepts" and 164 mentions of the word "koan"- tmc, 25 Nov 2024.
[840] xxxxx (access 1 Nov 2024)
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