Jikai Dainin Katagiri (片桐 大忍, ☸ January 19, 1928—March 1, 1990), aka Hojo-san Katagiri, was a Japanese-born Soto Zen priest who established the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1972. Katagiri ... Continue Reading »
Les Kaye (born June 14, 1933) is a Soto Zen priest. He started work in 1958 for IBM in San Jose, California, and over thirty years held positions in engineering, sales, management, and ... Continue Reading »
Robert Kennedy, S.J., Roshi, (born June 20, 1933) is a Jesuit priest and Zen teacher in the White Plum Asanga. He studied with Yamada Koun Roshi in Kamakura, Japan, with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi ... Continue Reading »
Houn 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 »
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Master Kusan (☸ 1909—1983) was a Korean Zen master who served as abbot of Songgwang-sa from 1969 until his death in 1983. From about 1975 until his final year he also trained a ... Continue Reading »
Jakusho Kwong-roshi (born November 14, 1935) is a California-based Soto Zen teacher and the founder and guiding teacher of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center in Sonoma County, California. In 1995 he received the title ... Continue Reading »
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Parang Geri Larkin is a Dharma teacher and prolific author of several books relating to Zen practice. Born in Indiana, Larkin spent much of her early years moving from one place to another, ... Continue Reading »
Taigen Dan Leighton (born 1950) is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage. Taigen first studied Buddhist art and culture in Japan in 1970, and began formal everyday ... Continue Reading »
Eihei Peter Levitt has been practicing Zen since the late 1960’s, and is a lay Zen teacher in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, having received Entrustment from Zoketsu Norman Fischer. He is the author of ... Continue Reading »
John Daido Loori (☸ June 14, 1931—October 9, 2009) was a prominent American Zen teacher, prolific author and avid photographer who established the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen. A Dharma heir of ... Continue Reading »
Albert Low is a Zen teacher based in Canada in the Philip Kapleau lineage. Authorized to teach Zen by Philip Kapleau in 1986, Low is director and guiding teacher of the Montreal Zen ... Continue Reading »
David R. Loy (born July 27, 1947) is a Buddhist philosopher who writes on the interaction between Buddhism and modernity. He has been practicing Zen since 1971 and is an authorized teacher in ... Continue Reading »
Paul Lynch (born May 28, 1957), aka Dochong, JDPSN, is a Korean Zen Sensei in the Seung Sahn lineage of Zen Buddhism, formerly a student of Ji Bong Robert Moore, now engaged in ... Continue Reading »
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Hakuyū Taizan Maezumi (前角 博雄, ☸ February 24, 1931—May 15, 1995), aka Hirotaka Kuroda, was a Japanese-born Soto Zen priest with dharma transmission in both the Rinzai Zen school and the Harada-Yasutani ... Continue Reading »
Barry Magid (born December 19, 1949) b. is a Soto Zen teacher of the Ordinary Mind Zen School and is also a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. He received his M.D. ... Continue Reading »
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