Zoketsu Norman Fischer

Zoketsu Norman Fischer

male, 63 years old
Buddhism in the United States, Buddhist, abbot, retreat, priest, zen buddhism…SanFranciscoZenCenter, Zen Buddhist monk, Soto Zen, Bellingham Zen Practice Group, Mountain Rain Zen Community
"Zoketsu Norman Fischer" (1946 - present) is a Jewish-American Soto Zen Buddhist priest. Norman practiced at San Francisco Zen Center for three...
Paul Haller

Paul Haller

male, 62 years old
German, Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Ryushin Paul Haller Roshi, Falls Road, Richard Baker…Zen Buddhist monk, SanFranciscoZenCenter, zen
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...

Blanche Hartman

female
Buddhist, American, SanFranciscoZenCenter, Zen Buddhist monk, Dharma transmission, Berkeley Zen Center
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...
Tenshin Reb Anderson

Tenshin Reb Anderson

male
Buddhist, zen, Buddhism, soto, American, Japanese…SanFranciscoZenCenter, Zen Buddhist monk
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...
Mel Weitsman

Mel Weitsman

male
Buddhist, American, SanFranciscoZenCenter, Zen Buddhist monk, Dharma transmission, Green Gulch Farm…Soto Zen, Berkley Zen Center
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...
David Chadwick

David Chadwick

male, 64 years old
Buddhist, zen, American spiritual writer, Buddhism, From Manhattan, SanFranciscoZenCenter
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...
Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal

male
San Francisco Bay Area, vipassana, Buddhist, zen, Stanford University, American…SanFranciscoZenCenter, Berkeley Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Center
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...
Philip Whalen

Philip Whalen

male, deceased (2002)
poet, World War II, Beat Generation, Beat writer, Reed College alumni, Wesleyan University…SanFranciscoZenCenter, Zen Buddhist monk, Zen Buddhist, San Francisco Renaissance
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...

Thomas Cleary

male
Spirituality, spiritual, enlightenment, SanFranciscoZenCenter, Qur'an, Avatamsaka Sutra…zen
Thomas Cleary (b. 1949) is a prolific, and somewhat reclusive, author and translator of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian and Muslim religious...
Issan Dorsey

Issan Dorsey

male
monk, Hartford Street Zen Center, Issan ("Lone Mountain") Tommy Dorsey, Richard Baker, bhikkhu, Zen Buddhist monk…SanFranciscoZenCenter, zen
Issan ("Lone Mountain") Tommy Dorsey (1933-1997) was a Zen Buddhist monk, associated with the San Francisco Zen Center, and founder of the Hartford...