Sherry Chayat
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Shinge-shitsu Roko Sherry Chayat is the former abbot of the Zen Studies Society, based at the International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji monastery, outside Livingston Manor, NY, and at the New York Zend
Chayat in 2012
Japanese Gardens Buddha
Hakuun Yasutani
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Hakuun Yasutani was a Sōtō Zen priest and the founder of the Sanbo Kyodan, a lay Japanese Zen group. Through his students Philip Kapleau and Taizan Maezumi, Yasutani has been one of the principal forc
Sherry Chayat
…at the New York Studio School for Drawing and Painting. In 1967 she joined the Zen Studies Society in New York City, training under Eido Tai Shimano, Haku'un Yasutani and Soen Nakagawa—and was married to Lou Nordstrom by Shimano and Yasutani. She received the Dharma name Roko (meaning sparkling dew). The couple moved…
Yasutani Rōshi and Brigitte D'Ortschy
Hakuun Yasutani and Phillip Kapleau