Mel Ash

male
Mel Ash is a Zen teacher, writer, artist, and performer with a lifelong passion for transformative experience and cultural change. Previously...
Paul Haller

Paul Haller

male, 62 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...
Soen Nakagawa

Soen Nakagawa

male, deceased (1984)
"Sõen Nakagawa" was a Japanese teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Rinzai tradition. An enigmatic figure, Soen's life can be told in a number of ways d...
Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

male, deceased (2007)
Peter Tuddenham was a British actor who provided the voices of "Zen", "Orac" and "Slave", computers on the science fiction TV show "Blake's 7". He...

Seongcheol

male
Seongcheol is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Hangul: 선, Hanja: 禪) Master (Zen Master). He was a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, being resp...
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...
Shubun

Shubun

male, deceased (1463)
Tensho Shubun (周文)(1414 - 1463) was a Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk, and - for some time - abbot at the Shok...
John Crook

John Crook

male, 79 years old
Dr. John Crook is a British teacher of Chán and "huatou" (Japanese: "wato"). From the community of practitioners who attended retreats with Crook t...
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...

Nasreddin

male
Nasreddin was a satirical sufi figure who lived during the Middle Ages (around 13th century), somewhere in Greater Khorasan. Many nations of the...