Ryushin Zendo Paul Haller Roshi
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Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi

Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi

Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman began practice at the old Sokoji Temple in San Francisco in 1964 with Suzuki-roshi. 

Sojun received priest ordination from Suzuki-roshi in 1969 at Berkeley Zendo which he founded in 1967 with Suzuki-roshi's blessing.

He was shuso at Tassajara in 1970 with Tatsugami-roshi, and director of Tassajara in 1972-1973.

In 1984, he received dharma transmission from Suzuki-roshi's son Höitsu Suzki Roshi.

In 1985, he was installed as abbot of Berkeley Zen Center; in 1988 he was installed as co-abbot of San Francisco Zen Center. His tenure as abbot of SFZC ended in January 1997. He is currently a senior dharma teacher there and remains Abbot of BZC. 


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Höitsu Suzuki Roshi

Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi

Gyugaku Höitsu Suzuki Roshi received dharma transmission from his father Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

Höitsu is the abbot of Rinsoin in Yaizu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan.
At the end of 2005 he was named the tanto of Eiheiji, Soto Zen's most important training temple where his father, he, and his son all studied. At Eiheiji, Höitsu will be a principle influence on a whole new generation of priests and monks.
Höitsu has developed a reputation of his own in the Soto Zen world and is expected to bring with him to those hallowed halls of Eiheiji, an unexpected and subtle gift.

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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the Japanese Abbot of the Soto temple Rinso-in, received dharma transmission from Gyokujun So-on Roshi.

Suzuki Roshi went to San Francisco in 1959 at the age of fifty-four.

Already a respected Zen master in Japan, he was impressed by the seriousness and quality of "beginner's mind" amongst westerners he met who were interested in Zen, and decided to settle there.

As more and more people of non-Japanese background joined him in meditation, Zen Center came into being and he was its first abbot. Under his tutelage, Zen Center grew into City Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery.

He was undoubtedly one of the most inspiring and influential Zen teachers of his time. Suzuki-roshi died in 1971.

Some of his edited talks have been collected in the books 'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind', 'Not Always So' and 'Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai'.

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