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Profile: San Francisco Zen Center

By David Chadwick — 2002

n 1959, a Zen priest named Shunryu Suzuki was sent from Japan to take over Sokoji. While he didn’t deny the significance of intellectual study, his constant teaching was to sit down and follow the breath—to do zazen—and to bring the practice of awakening into one’s daily life.

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Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra

Jan Willis was among the first Westerners to encounter exiled Tibetan teachers abroad in the late sixties, instantly finding her spiritual and academic home.

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Jan Willis, Charles Johnson (foreword), Janet Gyatso (foreword)
2020
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Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing

"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of life in this country.

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Charles Johnson
2007
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