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Genjo Marinello, Roshi
Genjo Marinello began his Zen training in 1975 sitting his first sesshin in the summer of 1977. He began the formal process of ordination 1980 in Seattle and trained at Ryutaku-Ji in Japan in 1981-82. In 1999, Genjo...
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Kathy Park, JDPSN
Kathy Park, JDPSN, began practicing Zen in 1999 while living in London. And began studying with the Kwan Um School after visiting the Zen Center in Paris. Over the following 20 years she lived in Zen centers and...
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Santikaro
Santikaro moved to Thailand with the Peace Corps in 1980 and ordained as a Theravada monk in 1985. He trained at Suan Mokkh with Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a leading Thai teacher, scholar, and reformer of Theravada Buddhism....
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Gesshin Claire Greenwood
Gesshin Claire Greenwood has been practicing Vipassana and Zen for over 12 years. Sheās an ordained Zen priest and spent over 5 years in Japan, training in monasteries, studying, and teaching. Gesshin is involved with...
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Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi
Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi, is a Guiding Teacher of Boundless Way Zen, a multi-lineage school of Zen Buddhism with practice sanghas in New England, New York, and Copenhagen, Denmark. She began studying Zen in 1981...
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Zen Master Bon Shim
Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter) is the Regional Zen Master for the Kwan Um School of Zen in Europe. As a young girl growing up in Cracow, Poland she gravitated to the contemplative atmosphere and the smell of...
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Taigen Dan Leighton
Taigen Dan Leighton is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He first studied Buddhist art and culture in Japan in 1970, and began formal everyday zazen and Soto practice in...
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James Ford, Roshi
James Ishmael Ford, Roshi, was ordained a Soto Zen priest in 1969. He received dharma transmission from Jean Kennet, Roshi, in 1971. For many years he studied with John Tarrant and received Inka from hi in 2005. Today...
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Florence Caplow
Zenshin Florence Caplow is a Soto Zen priest and Unitarian Universalist minister. For 25 years she worked as a conservation biologist specializing in endangered plants in the American West. She is widely published and...
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Jason Quinn, JDPSN
Jason Quinn, JDPSN, began practicing Zen in 1997 with the Dharma Sound Zen Center in Seattle. In 1999, feeling ready for a deeper commitment, he moved into the Providence Zen Center to train as a monk where he lived...
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Leigh Brasington
Leigh Brasington began practicing meditation in 1985. And is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994 and began leading retreats on his own in 1997. Today...
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Zen Master Soeng Hyang
Zen Master Soeng Hyang, Barbara Rhodes, or Bobby, as she is known to many people, was one of Zen Master Seung Sahn's first American students and began studying with him in 1972. She was given inka, or permission to...
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