The Issue at Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice
Insight Meditation Center (Redwood City) · 2008
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Gil Fronsdal
Gil Fronsdal
1954 CE · Modern · San Francisco Zen Center
b. 1954 (living)
Gil Fronsdal (b. 1954) is a Norwegian-born American Buddhist teacher and scholar trained in both Japanese Sōtō Zen and Theravāda insight meditation. Ordained as a Sōtō Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center and later a Theravāda monk in Burma, he holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford and is the guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. He is known for his accessible dharma talks and a widely used translation of the Dhammapada. He continues to teach.
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San Francisco Zen Center
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DOCUMENTED: ordained as a Sōtō Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982; also practiced as a Theravāda monk in Burma in 1985.
About San Francisco Zen Center
The San Francisco Zen Center, in San Francisco, California, is one of the largest Sōtō Zen organisations outside Japan. It was established in 1962 by the Japanese Sōtō priest Shunryū Suzuki and his American students; Suzuki's talks there became the basis of the influential book 'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.'
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Gil Fronsdal’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Works(2)
The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
Insight Meditation Center (Redwood City) · 2005