Today the Zen Studies Society (ZSS) publicly announced on its website that Eido Shimano Roshi and his wife, Aiho-san Shimano, resigned last month from ZSS’s board of directors amid allegations of an “inappropriate relationship” between Eido Roshi and a student. The ZSS says it is “committed to fully investigating, clarifying and bringing resolution to this matter.” Eido Roshi will stay on as abbot until he retires in April 2012; however, he will not be seeing new students for dokusan. Shinge Roshi Roko Sherry Chayat will be installed as Vice Abbot on Dec. 31, 2010, and will begin offering dokusan in January. Click here to read the full announcement, including the ZSS’s newly revised ethical guidelines.
