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Friday, August 6, 2010

Robert Aitken (1917-2010)


Robert Aitken, one of American Zen’s great pioneers, has died.

Aitken was brought to Zen in great part thanks to time detained in Japanese internment camps (due to his presence as a worker in Guam at the start of World War II). In one such camp he met R.H. Blyth, whose presence and scholarly work would have a life-changing influence on Aitken..... continued on Shambhala SunSpace

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