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2. Zen in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Matsuoka-Roshi was born in Japan into a family of Zen priests dating back six hundred years. In the 1930s he was sent to America by Sōtōshū, the Sōtō Zen Buddhist authority in Japan, to establish the Sōtō Zen tradition in the United States. He founded Sōtō Zen temples in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also furthered his ...

3. Joko Beck - Wikipedia

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   She began Zen practice in her 40s with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in Los Angeles, [3] and later with Hakuun Yasutani and Soen Nakagawa. [3] Beck received Dharma transmission from Taizan Maezumi Roshi in 1978, [ 3 ] but broke with Maezumi over his actions and opened Zen Center San Diego in 1983, [ 3 ] serving as its head teacher until July 2006.

4. Sokei-an - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (佐々木 指月 (曹渓庵); March 10, 1882 – May 17, 1945), born Yeita Sasaki (佐々木 栄多), was a Japanese Rinzai monk who founded the Buddhist Society of America (now the First Zen Institute of America) in New York City in 1930. Influential in the growth of Zen Buddhism in the United States, Sokei ...

5. Richard Baker (Zen teacher) - Wikipedia

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   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 of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum[1] (Johanneshof) in Germany 's Black Forest. [2] As the American Dharma heir to Shunryu Suzuki ...

6. Soyen Shaku - Wikipedia

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   Soyen Shaku (釈 宗演, January 10, 1860 – October 29, 1919; written in modern Japanese Shaku Sōen or Kōgaku Shaku Sōen) was the first Zen Buddhist master to teach in the United States. He was a rōshi of the Rinzai school and was abbot of both Kenchō-ji and Engaku-ji temples in Kamakura, Japan. Soyen was a disciple of Imakita Kosen.

7. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism - Wikipedia

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   e. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism is a 1934 book about Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. First published in Kyoto by the Eastern Buddhist Society, it was soon published in other nations and languages, with an added preface by Carl Jung. The book has come to be regarded as "one of the most influential books on Zen in the West".