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Dan Myoen Birnbaum is the teacher of the Bay Zen Center in Oakland, CA. He is a lay teacher who received Dharma Transmission from Diane Eshin Rizzetto in 2019. He …

Barbra Baccei is a senior Zen student under Soto Zen priest Valorie Beer. She is currently in preparation for Lay Dharma Entrustment and is a teacher of sewing the Buddha’s …

Genryo Jones Osho is the instructor of Iron City Rinzai in Pittsburg, PA.  He is a senior student and Osho under Meido Moore Roshi, abbot of Korinji in Wisconsin.  He …

Kyosho Valorie Beer has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1991. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2005 and received Dharma Transmission in 2013 from her teacher, Edward Brown. She …

So-on Jim Hare serves as Tanto, or head of practice at Valley Streams Zen Sangha in Sacramento. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, …

Jamie Howell is a lay Zen Teacher in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Tradition. After many years of practice he received the precepts in a jukai ceremony in 2000. He was …

Laurie Senauke started formal Zen practice in 1980 at San Francisco Zen Center; she worked at Greens Restaurant back in the day and lived at Tassajara for three years. In …

Rinzan Pechovnik is a Rinzai Zen priest and is the teacher at No Rank Zendo in Portland Oregon.  Rinzan began his training with the Zen Community of Oregon in 2003, …

Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She is the author of a number of books about Buddhism, including the humor book “The …

James Ishmael Ford is a Zen teacher and semi-retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He has dharma transmission from Houn Jiyu Kennett and Inka Shomei from John Nanryu Ji’un-ken Tarrant. He is …