• Shunryu Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆, often called Suzuki Roshi; May 18, 1904 – December 4, 1971) was a Sōtō Zen monk...
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    and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. The sangha was incorporated by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and a group of his American students in 1962. Today SFZC is the largest...
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    Center One of the largest American Sōtō Zen centers, founded by Shunryū Suzuki Roshi and his American students in 1962. SF Zen Center's Tassajara Zen...
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    American Dharma heir to Shunryu Suzuki, Baker assumed abbotship of the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) shortly before Suzuki's death in 1971. He remained...
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  • teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi. He has taught poetry, writing and creativity workshops and seminars...
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  • Including Memories of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi". Retrieved 29 October 2011. Otogawa Roshi, Kobun Chino. "Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi". Retrieved 29 October...
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  • Rōshi (老師) (Japanese: "old teacher"; "old master") is a title in Zen Buddhism with different usages depending on sect and country. In Rinzai Zen, the...
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    University Suzuki took up Zen practice at Engaku-ji, one of Kamakura's Five Mountains, first studying with Kosen Roshi. After Kosen's 1892 passing, Suzuki continued...
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    had also been of great service to Shunryu Suzuki at the San Francisco Zen Center, particularly from 1969 until Suzuki's death in 1971. Katagiri was important...
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    of Zen in America; the others teachers were Shunryu Suzuki, Eido Shimano, Taizan Maezumi. All but Suzuki were involved with widely publicized scandals...
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  • and Jane Schneider were early students of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi in the 1960s. Both served as Suzuki-roshi's jisha (personal attendant) in the early years...
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    completed Dharma transmission with Hoitsu Suzuki, Shunryu Suzuki's son and first dharma heir, in keeping with Suzuki-roshi's intention. In 1973, with Laura (ordination...
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    war, the Zen Mission took back ownership of the building. In 1959 Shunryu Suzuki Roshi arrived at Sokoji to minister to the congregation. He initiated the...
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    (teacher) or roshi (master), came to San Francisco, California, United States, from Japan in 1967 in response to an invitation from Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, serving...
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    communal center for those interested in Asian studies, and studied with Shunryū Suzuki Roshi at the Sokoji Temple in Japantown. On January 30, 1960, Kyger left...
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    precedents. Trungpa Rinpoche was deeply influenced by his friend Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, a Japanese Zen master who was among the first teachers to present...
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    ISBN 978-0972804943 Suzuki, Shunryū (2011). Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Shambhala Publications. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-159030849-3. "Sotan Tatsugami Roshi Dogen". web...
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  • Buddhism and its Teachers Shunryu Suzuki lineage Chinese Zen Masters T'ang Dynasty Masters, Rinzai Line (from Hui Neng to Hakuin), Roshi Joshu Sasaki lineage...
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    Kyōkun (Instructions to the Chief Cook); as does 20th-century Zen master Shunryu Suzuki in talks collected in the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Negative:...
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    Taizan Maezumi (redirect from Maezumi roshi)
    Francisco State University.The same year he met Shunryū Suzuki for the first time and occasionally visited Suzuki's temple, Sokoji, for ceremonies. Early in...
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    Weitsman was a Soto Zen roshi practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, having received Dharma transmission in 1984 from Suzuki's son Hoitsu. He was also...
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    Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1972 from SFAI. He also studied with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi at the San Francisco Zen Center. He taught classes at San Francisco...
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    – May 13, 2016) was 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...
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  • seeker of great Truth, Do not waste time. Toward the end of his life Shunryu Suzuki Roshi gave a series of lectures on the Sandokai. These have been published...
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    East and West. Price took the writings of Nyanaponika Thera and Zen Roshi Shunryū Suzuki, abbot of the nearby Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, as sources of...
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  • Richard Langlois, Roshi. He returned to Chicago in 1995, where he died in 1998. Sōtō Zen Priest Shunryu Suzuki (no relation to D.T. Suzuki) arrived in San...
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    Gerry Shishin Wick (category Rōshi)
    for 24 years he underwent Zen training with Maezumi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Sochu Suzuki Roshi. He remained the president of White Plum Asanga, a Zen...
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    American Buddhist who is 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...
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  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a book of teachings by Shunryu Suzuki, a compilation of talks given to his satellite Zen center in Los Altos, California....
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    contemporary Japanese Zen teachers, such as Harada Daiun Sogaku and Shunryū Suzuki, have criticized Japanese Zen as being a formalized system of empty...
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