Taisen Deshimaru

Taisen Deshimaru

male
Taisen Deshimaru (birth name: Yasuo Deshimaru) (1914-1982) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu, Deshimaru...
Kodo Sawaki

Kodo Sawaki

male
Kodo Sawaki is considered by some to be the most important Japanese Zen master of the 20th century. His parents died early and he grew up being...
Brad Warner

Brad Warner

male, 45 years old
Brad Warner is a Zen Buddhist priest, ordained in the Sōtō school by Gudo Wafu Nishijima. He is also a published author, musician, film maker, an...
Kosho Uchiyama

Kosho Uchiyama

male, deceased (1998)
Kosho Uchiyama roshi (1912-1998) was a Soto Zen priest who served as head abbot of Antai-ji temple, a Soto Zen monastery established in 1923 by Oka...
Gudo Wafu Nishijima

Gudo Wafu Nishijima

male, 90 years old
Gudo Wafu Nishijima (born November 1919 in Yokohama) is a Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and teacher. As a young man in the early 1940s, Nishijima...
Natalie Goldberg

Natalie Goldberg

female, 61 years old
Natalie Goldberg (b. 1948) is an American author and teacher of creative writing. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as...

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

male
Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin was a German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen-Master.

Arthur Braverman

male
Arthur Braverman is an American born author and translator of works from Japanese to English. A Zen Buddhist practitioner who lived in Japan for...

James H. Austin

male
James H. Austin is Clinical Professor of Neurology, University of Missouri Health Science Center, and Emeritus Professor of Neurology, University...
Ruben Habito

Ruben Habito

male, 62 years old
Ruben L.F. Habito (1947 - present) was born in the Philippines and is a former Jesuit priest turned Zen Buddhist master practicing in the Sanbo...