Bishop, Frances Mitra
12.22.2009Ven. Frances Mitra Bishop-sensei is a Zen teacher and Dharma heir of Ven. Philip Kapleau-roshi (who she trained with beginning in 1976). In 1996, Lola Lee, Osho, who passed away in 1997, ... Continue Reading »
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Gally, Gerardo
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Gifford, Dane Zenson
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Goldmann, Robert
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Graef, Sunyana
10.18.2010Sensei Sunyana Graef (May 29, 1948) is the founder and teacher of the Vermont Zen Center. She began her practice of Zen Buddhism in 1969 as a disciple of Roshi Philip ... Continue Reading »
Harada, Daiun Sogaku
12.23.2009Daiun Sogaku Harada (☸ October 13, 1871—December 12, 1961) is the ancestral forefather to the Sanbo-Kyodan lineage. The Sanbo Kyodan is a lay organization of Zen practice combining elements of the Soto Zen ... Continue Reading »
Henderson, Taigen
12.26.2009Sensei Taigen Henderson (born 1949) is a Dharma heir of Sensei Sunyana Graef and continues to practice with her. His first taste of Buddhism came in Sri Lanka as he was growing up ... Continue Reading »
Henry, Michael Danan
12.23.2009Michael Danan Henry (born 1939) is a retired Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage who was spiritual director at the Zen Center of Denver in Colorado. He began his spiritual training in 1965 ... Continue Reading »
Kapleau, Philip
12.23.2009Philip Kapleau (☸ August 12, 1912—May 06, 2004) was an important Zen teacher to the West despite his having lacked any Dharma transmission. It should be noted, however, that he had trained with ... Continue Reading »
Kempe, Karin
05.08.2010Karin Ryuku Kempe Sensei is one of the three Spiritual Directors at the Zen Center of Denver and received dharma transmission in 2010 from the founder of the DZC, Danan Henry ... Continue Reading »
Kjolhede, Bodhin
12.23.2009Bodhin Kjolhede Roshi has devoted himself to the Rochester Zen Center full-time since 1970. Prior to coming to the Center he received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan. ... Continue Reading »
Kjolhede, Sonja Sunya
12.23.2009Sensei Sunya Kjolhede began practicing Zen with Roshi Philip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center in 1970, becoming a formal student and later a disciple. She continued her formal training with her teacher ... Continue Reading »
Low, Albert
12.23.2009Albert 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 »
Odland, Kanja
10.23.2010Kanja Odland Sensei (born 1963) is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher, in the Philip Kapleau lineage. She was born in Stockholm 1963. She started her Zen training in 1984, as a student ... Continue Reading »
Packer, Toni
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Poromaa, Sante
11.18.2010Sante Poromaa Sensei is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher, in the lineage of Harada-Yasutani. He was born in 1958 in Kiruna, Sweden, and commenced his Zen training in the early eighties, as ... Continue Reading »
Sachter, Lawson David
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Wrightson, Amala
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Yasutani, Haku’un Ryoko
12.24.2009Haku'un Ryoko Yasutani (安谷 白雲, ☸ 1885-1973) was the first abbot of the Sanbō Kyōdan (or, Fellowship of the Three Treasures) based in Kamakura, Japan – an independent lay organization of Zen practice ... Continue Reading »