Buddhist communities have responded to power abuse issues in a variety of ways. One helpful reaction has been moving away from authority structures in which a single male teacher is...
Although these issues [related to abuses of power] exist in Buddhist history, the early decades of the twenty-first century, along with the rise of the #MeToo movement, have brought more...
‘Everybody knows, yet no one … has ever publicly spoken out…’ Ann Gleig began her paper with these words, spoken by the Canadian Zen teacher Eshu Martin. And just a...
One of the key insights of the [Heartwood-Northwestern Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism: Centering Survivor’s Voices] was that sexual abuse is an international problem that affects women and men,...