Maurine Stuart
Maurine Stuart | |
|---|---|
| Title | Haku'un Yasutani |
 |
| Part of a series on |
| Zen Buddhism |
|---|
 |
| Part of a series on |
Buddha in the Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco |
|---|
Maurine Stuart (3 March 1922 – 26 February 1990), a.k.a. Ma Roshi or Mother Roshi, was a Canadian Rinzai Zen rōshi who was one of the first female Zen masters to teach in the United States. She became president and spiritual director of the Cambridge Buddhist Association in 1979.
Stuart was granted her teaching title during an informal ceremony in 1982 held by her teacher Soen Nakagawa. Nakagawa, who had given Dharma transmission previously to five individuals (all male), granted Stuart the title in defiance of convention. While she had accepted the roshi title, she never declared to be a Dharma heir or lineage holder. The title was conferred upon her independent of her previous Zen practice and 1977 ordination as a Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano.[1]
Biography
Stuart was born in Keeler, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1922.[2] She studied music and graduated from the University of Manitoba.
Stuart moved to
In 1966, Stuart joined the
Stuart is featured in Zen in America: Five Teachers and the Search for American Buddhism by Helen Tworkov. Tworkov reports that Stuart left the Shimano lineage in 1977 because of his mistreatment of women.
In 1979, Stuart became president and spiritual director of the Cambridge Buddhist Association.
In 1985, Stuart ordained Sherry Chayat as a Zen priest.[3] In 1988, Stuart ordained Susan Jion Postal as a Zen priest. (See Empty Hand Zen Center site - emptyhandzen.org)
Death
Stuart died of
Bibliography
- Stuart, Maurine; OCLC 34545428.
See also
- Buddhism in the United States
- List of Rinzai Buddhists
- Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States
Notes
- ^ Prebish, p. 11
- ^ Krátky, Martin (March–April 2005). "Seeds of Zen in the Prairies: Introducing Maurine Stuart". WHOLifE Journal. 10 (6). Wholeness & Wellness Journal of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ Ford, p. 119
- ^ Oldmeadow, p. 298
- ^ Ford, p. 109-110
- ISBN 0807073059. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
References
- ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
- Oldmeadow, Harry (2004). Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions. World Wisdom, Inc. OCLC 54843891.
- Prebish, Charles S. (1999). Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21697-0.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-86547-354-4.