David Brazier

male
British, Psychotherapist, writer, zen, psychotherapy, American…zen buddhism
David Brazier is a British author and psychotherapist known for his writings on Zen Buddhism and psychotherapy.
Ingen

Ingen

male, deceased (1673)
Qing Dynasty Buddhist, zen, Ming Dynasty Buddhist, Chen Xian, Ōbaku, Obaku no Sanpitsu…Zen Buddhist monk
Ingen Ryuki was a Chinese Linji Chan Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. Ingen's father disappeared when he was five. At age 20, while searching...

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

male
zen, Psychotherapist, tao te ching, reich, kiel, diplomat
Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin was a German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen-Master.

Steven Heine

male
Florida International University, Journal of Asian Studies, Japanese culture, Buddhism in Japan, United States Department of Education, Japanese Buddhism…zen buddhism, zen
Steven Heine, Ph.D., is a Professor of Religion and History as well as Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Florida International...

John Blofeld

male
World War II, University of London, Downing College, Haileybury College, School of Oriental and African Studies, Old Haileyburian…zen
John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld (Born Anthony, April 2, 1913-June 7, 1987) was a British scholar of Asian thought and religion, especially Taoism and...
Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Ekaku

male, deceased (1769)
Religious leader, Zen Buddhist monk, Rinzai Zen, Japanese, meditation, koan…zen
Hakuin Ekaku was undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism. He transformed the Rinzai school from a declining...
Dennis Genpo Merzel

Dennis Genpo Merzel

male
judaism, inka, Zen Buddhist monk, Dharma transmission, Zen Buddhist, Voice Dialogue…Zen Center of Los Angeles, Kanzeon Zen Center, zen, zen buddhism
Dennis Genpo Merzel (1944 to present) was born in Brooklyn, NY and is a Zen Buddhist teacher as well as a Dharma heir to Taizan Maezumi. As a young...
David Chadwick

David Chadwick

male, 64 years old
Buddhist, zen, American spiritual writer, Buddhism, From Manhattan, San Francisco Zen Center
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...
Ashikaga Yoshimasa

Ashikaga Yoshimasa

male, deceased (1490)
Samurai, zen, shogun, Buddhism, sado, Japanese tea master
was the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1449 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimasa was the son of the sixth...

Hanshan

male
Shide, Tang Dynasty poet, 9th century, Taoism, Bodhisattva, zen…Zen Buddhist monk
Hanshan (fl. 9th century) was a mythological figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and Zen...