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    The Minnesota Zen Meditation Center (Kounzan Ganshoji, "Cultivating Clouds Mountain, Living in Vow Temple") is an urban, non-residential, Sōtō Zen practice...
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    Dainin Katagiri (category San Francisco Zen Center)
    1, 1990), was a Sōtō Zen priest and teacher, and the founding abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served from...
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    Dharma Field Zen Center (Dharma Field Meditation and Learning Center) is a Zen Buddhist community that offers daily meditation, sesshins, Sunday morning...
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    Zen Centers: Berkeley Zen Center Brooklyn Zen Center Chapel Hill Zen Center Hartford Street Zen Center Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center Santa Cruz Zen...
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    Zen for an overview of Zen, Chan Buddhism for the Chinese origins, and Sōtō, Rinzai and Ōbaku for the three main schools of Zen in Japan Japanese Zen...
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  • as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center amidst controversy 1984: Katagiri Roshi, abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, agrees to serve as interim...
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    Robert M. Pirsig (category Military personnel from Minnesota)
    follows on from where Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance left off. Pirsig was vice-president of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center from 1973 to 1975...
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    Shohaku Okumura after serving as the interim abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center since 1992. He chose the name sanshin (三心, sanshin), meaning...
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  • The Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique is that associated with Transcendental Meditation, developed by the Indian spiritual figure Maharishi Mahesh...
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    Jisho Warner (category Soto Zen Buddhists)
    by then the head of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, and trained under him at Hokyoji, a residential center in Minnesota. She completed the certification...
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    Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Santa Rosa Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Carmel Valley Walnut Grove Buddhist Church, Walnut...
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    Sōtō (redirect from Soto Zen)
    inherited from Sung China, and ultimately from India. The Sōtō Zen style of group meditation on long platforms in a sangha hall, where the monks also took...
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    Steve Hagen (category Zen Buddhism writers)
    the founder and former head teacher of the Dharma Field Zen Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a Dharma heir of Dainin Katagiri-roshi. Additionally...
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    Shōhaku Okumura (category Zen Buddhism writers)
    Kyoto Sōtō Zen Center. After returning to the United States, Okumura was a teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1993...
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    Reb Anderson (category San Francisco Zen Center)
    a Zen teacher in the Sōtō Zen tradition of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Senior Dharma teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center and at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center...
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  • practices, late in his life he was influenced by Buddhist meditation, particularly as found in Zen. He became a friend of Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh, praised...
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  • at the University of Minnesota before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley where he taught courses on meditation-the first in the country...
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    Yvonne Rand (category San Francisco Zen Center)
    from Dainin Katagiri Roshi at the Minnesota Zen Center in 1989, she strengthened her understanding of her Soto Zen heritage by studying with many teachers...
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    ISBN 978-0-486-23058-0. Karmokar, G. (2006). Kundalini – From Hell to Heaven. Zen Way Center. ISBN 978-0-9777456-0-9. Kripananda, S. (1995). The Sacred Power: A...
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    Jiko Linda Cutts (category San Francisco Zen Center)
    (born 1947) is a Sōtō Zen priest practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, a Senior Dharma Teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center. Cutts is a Dharma...
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    Mysticism (category Meditation)
    the Japanese Rinzai Zen tradition, emphasize sudden insight, but nevertheless also prescribe intensive training, including meditation and self-restraint...
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  • Knute Stiles (category Artists from Minnesota)
    training in Zen meditation with Shunryū Suzuki. Suzuki later founded the San Francisco Zen Center, where more East-West House residents trained in Zen. In addition...
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  • Elizabeth Erickson (category Artists from Minnesota)
    composition. (...) [This painting] evolved out of years of quiet meditation at the Minnesota Zen Center." At the same time, Erickson's preoccupation with the grid...
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  • the various centers. The prototype of these is Kopan Monastery's annual month-long meditation course, offered since 1971. Many FPMT centers have adopted...
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    Dhamma (Oregon), Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Santa Cruz, and the Common Ground Meditation Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Thai Forest Tradition...
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  • Garden". Carleton College. Retrieved 16 July 2016. "Japanese Garden". Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Retrieved 17 July 2016. "Japanese Garden of Peace"...
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  • Stuart Davis (musician) (category Musicians from Minnesota)
    First, he was introduced to Zen Buddhism by his drummer Dave King, and became a practitioner of zazen, or sitting meditation. The second was his discovery...
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    Taoism (section Meditation)
    practices within the Taoist tradition and beyond, including forms of meditation, astrology, qigong, feng shui, and internal alchemy. Common goals of Taoist...
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  • Patricia Monaghan (category University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni)
    za-zen and several other forms of meditation, Patricia collaborated with yoga teacher Eleanor (Teri) Viereck to write the encyclopedic Meditation: The...
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  • forms in India, 1977, Yoga, Zen and Psychotherapy: Their relevance for Pastoral Counselling, 1979, Mental Health and Meditation, 1990 (with Christoffer Grundmann...
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