Bassis, Kinrei
12.22.2009Reverend Master Kinrei Bassis is a Soto Zen priest and Abbot of the Berkeley Buddhist Priory (an affiliate of Shasta Abbey), which he began leading in 1997. A Dharma successor of the ... Continue Reading »
Jiyu Kennett Lineage
Blacker, Melissa Myozen
12.22.2009Melissa Myozen Blacker (born March 19, 1954) is a Zen priest with Boundless Way Zen, a Dharma heir of James Ishmael Ford. Melissa was born in Boston, Massachusetts to secular Jewish parents. From ... Continue Reading »
Burk, Domyo
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Carlson, Gyokuko
12.23.2009Gyokuko Carlson is a Soto Zen Roshi and co-abbot of the Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon, sharing the position with her husband and fellow Roshi Kyogen Carlson. Ordained and transmitted by ... Continue Reading »
Carlson, Kyogen
12.23.2009Abbot Kyogen Carlson is a Soto Zen priest. He was ordained by Houn Jiyu-Kennett Roshi in 1972 at Shasta Abbey, where he trained as a monk for five years before receiving full certification ... Continue Reading »
Elbert, Meian Sara
12.23.2009Reverend Master Meian Sara Elbert, O.B.C., is currently head abbess of Shasta Abbey Buddhist Monastery in Mt. Shasta, California. She began her practice in 1977 and became a dharma successor of Houn Jiyu ... Continue Reading »
Florence, Alan Jakuan Gensho
06.30.2011Alan Jakuan Gensho Florence is a dharma successor of the late Houn Jiyu Kennett roshi in the Soto Zen tradition. He began practicing with Kennett roshi in Toronto in May of 1970—Kennett was delivering ... Continue Reading »
Ford, James Ishmael
12.23.2009James Zeno Myoun Ford (born July 17, 1948) is a Soto Zen teacher in the lineage of the late Houn Jiyu Peggy Kennett, with inka from John Tarrant in the Harada-Yasutani tradition. As ... Continue Reading »
Kennett, Houn Jiyu Peggy
12.23.2009Houn Jiyu Peggy Kennett (法雲慈友ケネット,☸ January 1, 1924—November 6, 1996) was a Soto Zen roshi and founder of Shasta Abbey and the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives. Biography Peggy Kennett was born in Hastings, Sussex, England ... Continue Reading »
Little, Eko
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MacPhillamy, Daizui
06.28.2011Reverend Master Daizui MacPhillamy (☸ 1945—April 4, 2003), O.B.C., was a Soto Zen priest and dharma successor of the late Houn Jiyu Kennett roshi. He was elected head of the Order of Buddhist ... Continue Reading »
Oberholtzer, Edward
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Perry, Jisho
06.28.2011Reverend Master Jisho Perry O.B.C. is a Soto Zen priest and dharma successor of the late Houn Jiyu Kennett roshi. Ordained as a Soto Zen monk in 1971 by Kennett roshi, he received ... Continue Reading »
Swann, Chosei
06.28.2011Reverend Master Chosei Swann O.B.C. is a Soto Zen priest and a dharma successor of the late Houn Jiyu Kennett roshi. Ordained a monk in 1974 he received dharma transmission in 1976. He ... Continue Reading »
Tisdale, Sallie Jiko
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Weik, Jay Rinsen
10.08.2010Rev. Jay Ryudo Rinsen Weik (M.M.) (january 1, 1969) is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, an Aikido Sensei, and a professional guitarist and music teacher. He is the founder of the Toledo Zen ... Continue Reading »
Weik, Karen Do’on
10.08.2010Rev. Karen Do'on Weik is a Zen priest with the Toledo Zen Center in Toledo, Ohio. She began her Zen studies while in college in the 1980s. For the first ten years of ... Continue Reading »
Yalon, Daishin
06.28.2011Reverend Master Daishin Yalon O.B.C., is a Soto Zen priest and dharma successor of the late Houn Jiyu Kennett roshi. Reverend Daishin was ordained a monk in 1974 and received Jiyu Kennett roshi's ... Continue Reading »