Richard Dudley Baker (born March 30, 1936) is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists...
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writer Richard H. Baker (bishop) (1897–1981), Episcopal bishop of North Carolina Richard Baker (Zen teacher) (born 1936), American Zen Buddhist teacher Richard...
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Tassajara Bakery was a Zen Center venture promoted by Richard Baker as an extension of the baking practices at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Tassajara...
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in Ch'an /Zen Buddhism in America, archived from the original on 19 March 2022, retrieved 18 February 2022 Lachs, Stuart (2002), Richard Baker and the Myth...
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Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Rōshi (June 19, 1917 – August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He co-founded the Honolulu...
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within some Zen schools in Japan, the United States and Europe. "Sensei" (simply "teacher") is often applied in addressing the Zen teacher or "master"...
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Reb Anderson (category Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers)
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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Sanbo Kyodan (redirect from Sanbo Kyodan Zen)
Yasutani's teacher Harada Daiun Sogaku, a Sōtō priest who also studied with Rinzai priests. Both Harada Roshi and Yasutani Roshi were strong promoters of Zen practice...
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Zen was introduced in the United States at the end of the 19th century by Japanese teachers who went to America to serve groups of Japanese immigrants...
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Zen institutions have an elaborate system of ranks and hierarchy, which determine one's position in the institution. Within this system, novices train...
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Hierarchy in Ch'an /Zen Buddhism in America Lachs, Stuart (2002), Richard Baker and the Myth of the Zen Roshi Lachs, Stuart (2006), The Zen Master in America:...
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Blanche Hartman (category San Francisco Zen Center)
a Soto Zen teacher practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. From 1996 to 2002 she served two terms as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center....
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Zen training program, the center also manages an organic farm and gardens. Founded in 1972 by the San Francisco Zen Center and Zentatsu Richard Baker...
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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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1984: Zentatsu Richard Baker resigns as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center amidst controversy 1984: Katagiri Roshi, abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center...
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Shunryū Suzuki (category Zen Buddhism writers)
1971) was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Zen Buddhist monastery...
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Mel Weitsman (category Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers)
the founder, abbot and guiding teacher of Berkeley Zen Center located in Berkeley, California. Weitsman was a Soto Zen roshi practicing in the lineage...
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Buddhism in the United States (redirect from Zen Buddhism in the United States)
(2002), Richard Baker and the Myth of the Zen Roshi, archived from the original on 2012-02-05, retrieved 2012-06-29 Lachs, Stuart (2006), The Zen Master...
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Zoketsu Norman Fischer (category Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers)
as Zen priests by Zentatsu Richard Baker, from whom Fischer received the dharma name Zoketsu Rinsho. In 1981, they moved to Green Gulch Farm Zen Center...
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Jakusho Kwong (category San Francisco Zen Center)
is a Chinese-American Zen Buddhist teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He serves as head abbot of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, of which he is founder...
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Rōshi (category Zen)
(Japanese: "old teacher"; "old master") is a title in Zen Buddhism with different usages depending on sect and country. In Rinzai Zen, the term is reserved...
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Alan Watts (category Zen in the United States)
archivist for the San Francisco Zen Center, and Suzuki and my father had been good friends, and Richard Baker, rōshi Baker, had presided over my father's...
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Tarrant, was the first dharma heir to Robert Baker Aitken, in the line of the Sanbo Kyodan school of koan Zen. Tarrant has creatively developed ways of teaching...
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Zen lineage charts depict the transmission of the dharma from one generation to another. They developed during the Tang dynasty, incorporating elements...
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Dainin Katagiri (category San Francisco Zen Center)
January 19, 1928 – March 1, 1990), was a Sōtō Zen priest and teacher, and the founding abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
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Turning the light around (category Zen)
translated as “tracing back the radiance,” or “counter-illumination,” is a Zen Buddhist expression referring to turning attention from outward phenomena...
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Dharma transmission (category Zen Buddhist philosophical concepts)
Chan and Zen Buddhism, dharma transmission is a custom in which a person is established as a "successor in an unbroken lineage of teachers and disciples...
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Bernie Glassman (category Zen Buddhism writers)
1939 – November 4, 2018) was an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization...
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