Zoketsu Norman Fischer

Zoketsu Norman Fischer

male, 62 years old
"Zoketsu Norman Fischer" (1946 - present) is a Jewish-American Soto Zen Buddhist priest. Norman practiced at San Francisco Zen Center for three... More
Search For: abbot retreat retreats Mountain Rain Zen Community zen buddhism Buddhist … San Francisco Zen Center
Paul Haller

Paul Haller

male, 61 years old
Ryushin Paul Haller Roshi is a Soto Zen Buddhist teacher and the current Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center in the U.S. state of California. He... More
Search For: Buddhism Falls Road southeast asia From Belfast Richard Baker Alumni of Queen's University Belfast … San Francisco Zen Center
Upload_no_text

Blanche Hartman

female
Zenkei Blanche Hartman is a former abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center. She began practicing Zen in 1969 at the Berkeley Zen Center with Sojun... More
Search For: Dharma transmission American Buddhist Suzuki-Roshi San Francisco Zen Center Zen Buddhist monk
Tenshin Reb Anderson

Tenshin Reb Anderson

male
Tenshin Reb Anderson is a noted American Zen Buddhist priest and teacher in the Soto school. He was abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1986... More
Search For: Buddhism Green Gulch Farm Buddhist San Francisco Zen Center Japanese Dharma transmission
Mel Weitsman

Mel Weitsman

male
Sojun Mel Weitsman (1929 - present) was born in Los Angeles, CA and is a Soto Zen priest who received Dharma transmission from the son of Shunryu... More
Search For: Tassajara Buddhist Green Gulch Farm San Francisco Zen Center Dharma transmission Hoitsu Suzuki
David Chadwick

David Chadwick

male, 63 years old
David Chadwick (born 1945) grew up in Texas and moved to California to study Zen as a student of Shunryu Suzuki in 1966. Chadwick was ordained as a... More
Search For: Buddhism Crooked Cucumber Buddhist San Francisco Zen Center From Manhattan American spiritual writer
Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal

male
Gil Fronsdal is a Buddhist who has practiced Zen and Vipassana since the 1970s, and is currently a Buddhist teacher who lives in the San Francisco... More
Search For: San Francisco Bay Area dharma American Buddhist vipassana Stanford University … San Francisco Zen Center
Philip Whalen

Philip Whalen

male, deceased (2002)
Philip Whalen was a poet and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat generation. Born in Portland, Oregon, Whalen served in the... More
Search For: Enough Said 1974-1979 Wesleyan University Six Gallery reading Beat writer Two Novels US Army Air Forces … San Francisco Zen Center
Upload_no_text

Thomas Cleary

male
Thomas Cleary (b. 1949) is a prolific, and somewhat reclusive, author and translator of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian and Muslim religious... More
Search For: Spirituality Buddhism islam East Asian languages Sunzi Bingfa Taoist alchemy … San Francisco Zen Center
Issan Dorsey

Issan Dorsey

male
Issan ("Lone Mountain") Tommy Dorsey (1933-1997) was a Zen Buddhist monk, associated with the San Francisco Zen Center, and founder of the Hartford... More
Search For: Maitri AIDS Hospice Buddhist bhikkhu San Francisco Zen Center Buddhism in the United States dharma