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Roshi Robert Aitken (Bob Aitken to some) is a student, scholar, and teacher of in Hawaii Zen having written a Book - many Zen books, writing Zen books and zen teaching zen teaching and doing research. Various misspellings of his name are: Robert Atken, Robert Aitkin, Robert Atkins, Robert Eitken, Robert Atkin, Robert Aken, Robert Akin, robert Aikins, Robert Atkens, He was married to Mary Laune (Maria) and had a son Tom Aitken (Thomas) and then married Anne Aitken, aka Anne Hopkins Aitken, Anne Aurndel Aitken, listed in famous women. The founded the diamond sangha (sanga) in hawaii and later he moved to the big island, to kalapana, kaimu near hilo. He has been called the dean of zen buddhism zen and is a zen author, zen scholar, dean of buddhism,
zen researcher, zen buddhist author zen buddhist scholar zen buddhist researcher
zen teacher. Unfortunately, it can be misspelled buddist, bhudist, bhuddist, budist,
budism, buddism, bhuddism, zenbuddhism, zenbuddism, zenbhudism, zenbudism. They practice zazen during zen meditation retreat, sometimes with prison reform groups, and support Hawaiian holistic alternatives to prisons. He was a pflag president, of pflag-hilo, an advocate of same gender marriage (same sex marriage) including lesbian bisexual transgender intersex variations. Heis anadvocate of social engagement, community engagement community activism, and supports a
community activist teachers circle teaching circle extending beyond the diamondsangha diamond sanga, mispelled diamondsanga, or dimond sangha, or worse yet, dimondsangha and
dimondsanga. shoyoroku, msnh, qbre, marrage, or even marrige.