UNITED STATES
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
By Sara Malm
A 105-year-old Zen Buddhist master has been accused of sexually assaulting his female students during private teaching sessions.
Joshu Sasaki, best known for being the teacher of artist Leonard Cohen, has allegedly groped and sexually harassed women across the U.S. for over 50 years.
An independent council of Buddhist leaders recently admitted to ignoring years of accusations against the famously charismatic ‘roshi’.
Last month, a ‘witnessing council’ of senior teachers of Mr Sasaki’s Zen Buddhist community published a statement, admitting that the have ‘struggled with our teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi’s sexual misconduct for a significant portion of his career in the United States’.
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