Jay Rinsen Weik interview
This interview was conducted in 2011. Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, an Aikido Sensei, and a professor of Guitar. He is co-founder of the Buddhist Temple of Toledo, the...
View ArticleJames Daikan Bastien interview
James Daikan Bastien began his Zen training under the direction of senior monastic students of Dainin Katagiri Roshi at the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha, Nebraska in 1979. In 1990, Daikan began...
View ArticleKyogen Carlson Interview
Kyogen Carlson is a Soto Zen priest and abbot of Dharma Rain Zen Center. He was ordained by Houn Jiyu-Kennett Roshi in 1972 at Shasta Abbey, where he trained as a monk for five years before receiving...
View ArticleKoshin Christopher Cain interview
Koshin Christopher Cain is Abbot of the Puget Sound Zen Center. Koshin was born in 1965 and grew up in London, England, and Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina,...
View ArticleMitra Bishop interview
If you find a grammatical error in today’s interview transcript, please let me know. Thanks! Frances Mitra Bishop Sensei is a Zen teacher and Dharma heir of Ven. Philip Kapleau-roshi (with whom she...
View ArticleDavid Rynick interview
David Dayan (or, Dae En) Rynick (born 1952) is a Zen teacher with the Boundless Way Zen school, a Dharma heir of Bo Mun George Bowman. David Rynick was born in 1952, in Houston, Texas. He grew up in...
View ArticleZenshin Greg Fain interview
Zenshin Greg Fain is a disciple of Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi, Abbot of Berkeley Zen Center in Berkeley, California in the Soto Zen tradition. He was ordained by Sojun Roshi in April 2002 and was shuso...
View ArticleBon Hae Judith Roitman interview
Zen Master Bon Hae (Judith Roitman) is a Zen teacher with the Kwan Um School of Zen. She began practicing Zen with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1976 at the Cambridge Zen Center. She was one of the founders...
View ArticleGuo Gu interview
Guo Gu (born August 24, 1968) is one of the late Master Sheng Yen’s senior lay teachers and translators, assisting with and leading activities at the Chan Meditation Center, Dharma Drum Retreat Center,...
View ArticleKoun Franz interview
Koun Franz is a Sōtō Zen priest born in Helena, Montana. He was ordained in 2001, then trained at Zuiōji and Shōgōji monasteries. From 2006 to 2010, he served as resident priest of the Anchorage Zen...
View ArticleDaigan Gaither interview
Daigan Vince Gaither (b. April 3, 1966) began Buddhist practice in 1995 as an Vipassana practitioner, and began to study Zen in 2003 with Ryushin Paul Haller. He received Lay Ordination in 2006 and...
View ArticleTozen Akiyama interview
Tozen Akiyama is a Soto Zen priest. He was born in Takasaki City, Gumma Prefecture, Japan in 1936. He started Zen sitting under the guidance of Tosui Ohta Roshi in 1972 and was ordained by Ohta Roshi...
View ArticleMushim Patricia Ikeda Interview
Mushim (Patricia) Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher, writer, diversity consultant, and community activist living in Oakland, California. She is a core teacher at East Bay Meditation Center...
View ArticleJohn Gendo Wolff Interview
John Gendo Wolff, Sensei, has been a Zen practitioner for over 30 years and teacher at Great Wave Zen Sangha in Ludington, Michigan. He received Jukai (lay ordination) from Dennis Genpo Merzel on...
View ArticleJohn Daishin Buksbazen Interview
Sensei Daishin was born in London, England, to a Jewish-Christian family of Eastern European backgrounds. He began Zen practice in Philadelphia in 1967, receiving both lay and Priest ordination in the...
View ArticleZen master Bon Yeon (Jane Dobisz) Interview
Zen Master Bon Yeon (Jane McLaughlin-Dobisz) is the guiding teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center. Having practiced both in the Tibetan and Vipassana traditions previously, she became a student of Zen...
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