Los Angeles, CA
California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA, was an early West Coast centre of American Zen. The pioneer Japanese teacher Nyogen Senzaki opened a meditation 'zendo' there from the 1920s, and the Sōtō priest Taizan Maezumi founded the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1967, training a generation of Western teachers.
2 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Nyogen Senzaki
Nyogen Senzaki (1876–1958)
Yaakov Moshe Feldman
Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Feldman (1895–1981)
death 1930–1981
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Persian Chief Rabbi
R. Yedidya Shofet (1908–2005)
Chief Rabbi of Iranian-American Jewry 1979–1995
Charlotte Joko Beck
Charlotte Joko Beck (1917–2011)
Taizan Maezumi
Taizan Maezumi (1931–1995)
Bernie Glassman
Bernie Glassman (1939–2018)
Works composed here
- 1953
Buddhism and Zen
- 2001
Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice