“I was dumbfounded,” Chodron wrote. In a statement to The Washington Post on Friday, the Shambhala board did not comment on the sakyong’s upcoming public role. In two letters he wrote in 2018 addressed to the Shambhala community, the sakyong apologized to anyone he hurt and said he accepts responsibility for the pain he had caused. AD“The seemingly very clear message that we are returning to business as usual distresses me deeply,” Chodron wrote. ADIn 2018, Chodron publicly apologized for dismissing a woman who accused a different Shambhala director of rape.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2020 19:30 UTC