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...

writer Richard H. Baker (bishop) (1897–1981), Episcopal bishop of North Carolina Richard Baker (Zen teacher) (born 1936), American Zen Buddhist teacher Richard...

within some Zen schools in Japan, the United States and Europe. "Sensei" (simply "teacher") is often applied in addressing the Zen teacher or "master"...

Tassajara Bakery was a Zen Center venture promoted by Richard Baker as an extension of the baking practices at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Tassajara...

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...

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...

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...

meaningless or absurd statement. However, in Zen practice, a kōan is not meaningless, and not a riddle or a puzzle. Teachers do expect students to present an appropriate...

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...

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...

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:...

Zen institutions have an elaborate system of ranks and hierarchy, which determine one's position in the institution. Within this system, novices train...

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...

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...

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....

Sōtō Zen or the Sōtō school (曹洞宗, Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku)...

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...

(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...

1984: Zentatsu Richard Baker resigns as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center amidst controversy 1984: Katagiri Roshi, abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation 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...

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...

school, many Zen communities use both methods depending on the teacher and students. Zazen is considered the heart of Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist practice...

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...

Helen (1989). Zen in America : profiles of five teachers : Robert Aitken, Jakusho Kwong, Bernard Glassman, Maurine Stuart, Richard Baker. San Francisco:...

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...

(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...

as secretary for the San Francisco Zen Center. In 1973 Jane received priest ordination from Zentatsu Richard Baker-roshi. Currently she is studying with...

his life. Peter Coyote (1941– ), American actor and author (Zen, ordained priest) Richard Gere, American actor. He began in films in the 1970s, playing...

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...

the founder, abbot and guiding teacher of Berkeley Zen Center located in Berkeley, California. Weitsman was a Soto Zen roshi practicing in the lineage...