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The Mind-Body Problem
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
November 25, 2001| Author:
Reviewed by David Tuller
| Copyright 2001 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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SHOES OUTSIDE THE DOOR
Desire, Devotion, and Excess
At San Francisco Zen Center
By Michael Downing
Counterpoint. 385 pp. $26
In the 1960s and 1970s, San Francisco Zen Center played a pivotal
role in nurturing the blossoming American romance with Buddhism. But
the religious institution, founded almost 40 years ago by Shunryu
Suzuki, a renowned Japanese teacher, practically imploded in 1983
when charges of sexual, psychological and financial abuse engulfed
Abbo...
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