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Dennis Hirota is a professor in the Department of Shin Buddhism at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He was born in Berkeley, California in 1946 and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, he was a visiting professor of Buddhism [1] at Harvard Divinity School where his studies focused on the Buddhist monk Shinran. [2]
Issan Dorsey (March 7, 1933 — September 6, 1990), born Tommy Dorsey Jr., was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher, Dharma heir of Zentatsu Richard Baker and onetime abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center (HSZC) located in the Castro district of San Francisco, California.
Achan Sobin S. Namto (born 1931), taught Vipassana meditation and Buddhist psychology in Southeast Asia and North America for over 50 years; Gudo Wafu Nishijima (1919–2014) Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), major revivalist of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhism through a Westernized lens
Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson (born 1943) is an 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 Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, California, where he lives.
The Thubten Dhargye Ling Buddhist Center was founded in 1978 by Geshe Gyeltsen at the "urging of his students," according to the Los Angeles Times. [2] The center, which was originally located in Los Angeles, relocated to its present location in Long Beach, California, in 1996. [2] Geshe Gyeltsen died at the center in February 2009 at the age ...
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: first Western woman to be recognized as an incarnate lama [1]. Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC) is an organization for Buddhist study and practice in the Nyingma tradition (Palyul lineage) that is located in Poolesville, Maryland and Sedona, Arizona, with smaller groups in Santa Barbara, California and across Australia.
Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organization founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai.. It is run by two vice-presidents, including Hiromasa Ikeda, son of the founder.
Larry Rosenberg (1932–), American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center [7] Peter Coyote (1941–), American actor and author [8] Surya Das (1950–), lama who founded Dzogchen Foundation and Centers [9] [10] Tetsugen Bernard Glassman (1939–2018), American Zen Buddhist roshi and co-founder of the Zen ...