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Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman (July 20, 1929 – January 7, 2021), born Mel Weitsman, was an American Buddhist who was the founder, abbot and guiding teacher of
Shunryu Suzuki, having received Dharma transmission in 1984 from Suzuki's son Hoitsu. He was also a co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, where he served from 1988 to 1997. Weitsman was also editor of the book Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai, based on talks given by Suzuki on the Sandokai
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Biography
Mel Weitsman was born in
Lineage
- Josho Pat Phelan (?—present)[web 1]
- Mary Mocine (?—present)
- Myoan Grace Schireson (born 1946)
- Jane Myokaku Schneider (?—present)
- Myosho Baika Andrea Pratt (born 1960)
- Shinshu Roberts (?—present)
- Daijaku Judith Kinst (?—present)
- Soshin Teah Strozer (?—present)
- Chikudo Lew Richmond (?—present)
- Peter Yozen Schneider (?—present)
- Shosan Victoria Austin (?—present)
- Dairyu Michael Wenger (born 1947)
- Darlene Su Rei Cohen (☸ 1942—2011)
- Susan Ji-On Postal (?—present)
- Myozan Dennis Keegan (?—present)
- Horyu Ryotan Cynthia Kear (?—present)
- Sarita Tamayo-Moraga (?—present)
- Susan Ji-On Postal (?—present)
- Mark Lancaster (?—present)
- Darlene Su Rei Cohen (☸ 1942—2011)
- Hozan Alan Senauke (born 1947)
- Maylie Scott (☸ 1935—2001)
- Fran Tribe (☸)
- Gil Fronsdal (born 1954)
- Edward Espe Brown (born 1945)
- Ryushin Paul Haller (born 1947)
- Myogen Steve Stucky (?—2014)[web 2]
- Steve Weintraub (?—present)
- Zoketsu Norman Fischer (born 1946)
- Do-An Robert Thomas (?—present)
- Shokan Jordan Thorn (?—present)
- Ingen Breen (?—present)
- Bruce Fortin (?—present)
- Arlene Lueck (?—present)
- Daigan Lueck (☸ ?—2015)[web 3]
- Shinko Rick Slone (?—present)
- Gloria Ann Lee (?—present)
- Myphon Hunt (?—present) retired
- Gyokujun Teishin Layla Smith (born 1946)
- Zenkei Blanche Hartman (?—present)
- Kosho McCall (born 1946)
- Seirin Barbara Kohn (?—present) retired
- Gengetsu Jana Drakka (born 1952)
- John Daniel King (☸ 1935—2001)
- Ryumon Hilda Guitierrez Baldoquin (?—present)
See also
- Sōtō Zen
- Shunryu Suzuki
- San Francisco Zen Center
- Berkeley Zen Center
- Soto Zen Buddhist Association
- American Zen Teachers Association
- Zen in the United States
- Buddhism in the United States
- Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States
References
Written references
Web-references
- ^ Sweeping Zen, "Shunryu Suzuki lineage"
- ^ "Myogen Steve Stücky, San Francisco Zen Center's First Central Abbot, Dies at 67". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. January 10, 2014. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
- Shambhala Sun. April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
Sources
- ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
- Downing, Michael (2002). Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center. Counterpoint. ISBN 1-58243-254-6.
- Gach, Gary (1998). What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop. Parallax Press. ISBN 0-938077-92-9.
- Prebish, Charles S.; Kenneth Kenʼichi Tanaka (1998). The Faces of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. OCLC 37782936.
- Skinner Keller, Rosemary; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Marie Cantlon (2006). The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press. OCLC 61711172.
- "Lineage, San Francisco Zen Center: About Us". San Francisco Zen Center. Archived from the original on October 14, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2009.