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Zen Peacemakers: Who We Are

  • Founder: Bernie Glassman
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Bernie Glassman

Zen Master Bernie Glassman is a world-renowned pioneer in the American Zen Movement. He is a spiritual leader, published author, accomplished academic and successful businessman with a PhD in Applied Mathematics. Glassman currently teaches and travels, giving talks and workshops on spiritual practice, socially responsible business and international peacemaking. He is the founder and spiritual director of the Zen Peacemakers.

Personal and Education

Bernie Glassman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and he grew up in a Jewish family with a strong socialist orientation. After graduating from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, he went to work for McDonnell-Douglas in California in 1960 as an aeronautical engineer, concentrating on interplanetary flights. He also obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UCLA in 1970. Currently Bernie has two grown children and one grandson.

Zen Training and Teaching

In 1967, Bernie began his Zen studies with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He became a Zen teacher--Sensei Glassman--in 1976. In 1980 he founded his own Zen Community of New York in the Bronx, New York. He started the Greyston Bakery, at first staffed by Zen students, as a livelihood for the Community, and then made it a vehicle for social enterprise in Yonkers, 3 miles north (see below). In 1995 Bernie Glassman received inka, or the final seal of approval, from his teacher and became known as Roshi Glassman. During that year and in 1996 he served as Spiritual Head of the White Plum Lineage, comprising hundreds of Zen groups and centers in the US, Latin America and Europe, as well as the first President of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of America. His Dharma Family includes dharma teachers, zen priests, zen preceptors, zen entrepreneurs, Christian clergy, Rabbis, Sufi Sheiks and multi-faith peacemakers.

Social Enterprise

Bernie became a social entrepreneur in 1982, articulating a vision that socially responsible businesses can have a double bottom line: generating profits and serving the community. The Greyston Bakery was the first such venture, but it was merely one piece of a larger socially responsible business model which he developed, known as the Greyston Mandala (the Sanskrit mandala can be loosely translated as circle of life), a network of for-profits and not-for-profits working together to improve the lives of individuals and the larger inner city community of southwest Yonkers. Greyston, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on June 11, 2007 (during which time it will honor its founder), provides permanent housing, jobs, job training, child care, after-school programs and a host of other supportive services to a large community of formerly homeless families, advancing the principles of empowerment, empathy, and responsible action. Its main components are:

  • Greyston Bakery. Founded in 1982 in the southwest corner of Yonkers, a poor neighborhood beset by high unemployment, violence and drugs, the bakery began to hire people that conventional businesses had deemed unemployable It trained its employees in bakery crafts and soon they were producing some of New York's most expensive, high-end cakes and tarts sold in the city's fanciest eateries. In 1990 it began to produce brownies for Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and its revenues shot up dramatically. Since its humble founding, the bakery grew into a successful $6 million business with more than 75 employees. Its hiring remains to this very day "First come, first served," and much of its profits are recycled into seed money for its sister not-for-profits, thus making the entire network more sustainable and financially independent.
  • Greyston Family Inn. This is Greyston's housing and support services arm. Since 1986 it has developed hundreds of low-cost permanent apartments for homeless families, a large child care center, and tenant support services as well as after-school programs, providing wraparound support to families trying to come out of the cycle of unemployment, homelessness, and public assistance.
  • Maitri Center and Issan House. Opened in 1997, Maitri is a medical center serving 150 people with AIDS-related illnesses. It was among the first facilities in the country to provide alternative care therapies to people with HIV/AIDS. Issan House provides housing for many of Maitri's patients.

The entire Greyston Mandala (as of 2007) hires 175 people and serves at least 1200 men, women and children annually in southwest Yonkers. Its model of integrating for-profits, not-for-profits, and spirituality has been studied by many other nonprofits and cities across the country as well as in universities. Bernie Glassman served as Founder and President/CEO of Greyston from 1982 till he left it in 1996.

Spiritually-Based Social Action and Peacemaking

In January of 1994, while leading a bearing witness retreat in Washington, DC, on the occasion of his 55th birthday, Bernie decided to create the Zen Peacemaker Order, for Zen practitioners dedicated to the cause of peace and social justice. Subsequently, the concept was broadened to become an international, interfaith network called the Peacemaker Community, stressing the integration of spiritual practice and social action through Three Tenets:

     

  • Not-knowing, thereby giving up fixed ideas about ourselves and the universe;
  • Bearing witness to the joy and suffering of the world; and
  • Loving action for ourselves and the world.

Together with his wife and co-founder, Sandra Jishu Holmes, Bernie left Greyston in the end of 1996 and became President of this large community of spiritually-based activists. He took a leave when his wife died in 1998, but from 2000 till 2004 he continued serving as President, devoting his energy to developing the Peacemaker Community and supporting various social action and peacemaking projects in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. This organization is now known as Zen Peacemakers.

In 2004 Bernie Glassman began to develop a training campus to teach people the skills of spiritually-based social enterprise and peacemaking called the Maezumi Institute, in Western Massachusetts.

Awards

Bernie was awarded the Ethics in Action Award by the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester and the E-chievement Award by Toms of Maine. He was named Man of the Year by the Westchester Coalition of Food Pantries and Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Business Week in 1993. He is a founding board member of the Social Ventures Network, a network of businesses committed to social change, and continues to serve as one of its spiritual leaders. In 2007, he was honored as a Purpose Prize Fellow given to those over 60 with the passion and experience to discover new opportunities, come up with new solutions, and make lasting changes

Publications

Bernie is the co-author, with Rick Fields, of Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Masters Lessons in Living a Life that Matters (Bell Tower, April 1996), and the author of Bearing Witness: A Zen Masters Lessons in Making Peace (Bell Tower, May 1997) and Infinite Circle: Studies in Zen (Shambhala Publication, 2002).

For more information on his books and on films made about him, please link here.

Photo History of Bernie Glassman

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Video of Bernie Glassman

genki

Zen Master (Roshi) Paul Genki Kahn is President and Vice-Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemakers. He has been selected by Zen Master Bernie Glassman to succeed him as Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemakers after a four-year transition period.

He is focussing on the Zen House Seminary for Socially Engaged Buddhism, the development of Dharma Centers (Zen Houses) in impoverished areas to serve the local population and in the formation of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha, an international network of over 60 centers affiliated with the Zen Peacemakers. He also leads the efforts to develop the Maezumi Institute which is the training and study center of the Zen Peacemakers.

He is also Spiritual Director of High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community in Wyckoff, NJ, which is led by Head Teachers Sensei Bill Jikai Greenberg and Sensei Ann Ankai Wagner.

He is a Dharma Successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman, Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemakers and first successor of Taizan Maezumi, Roshi. Genki was ordained by Maezumi Roshi as a Novice Soto Zen Buddhist priest in 1975, and received Final Vows as a Priest from Roshi Dennis Genpo Merzel.

Genki began dedicated yoga and meditation practice in the 1960s. In 1970 he entered residential Zen training with Aitken Roshi in Hawaii. He transferred to the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1972 to become a monk and priest under Maezumi Roshi, served as his personal attendant, and was the Director of Training there. In 1980 he came to New York with Roshi Bernie to establish the Zen Community of New York and what has become the Greyston Mandala.

For the past 25 years Genki has had a private psychotherapy practice and has designed and administered public and private mental health programs for disadvantaged people in New York and New Jersey. All of these programs have included yoga and meditation. He has served on state and county mental health committees. He pioneered quality treatment for persons with severe and persistent mental illness who also had drug and alcohol addictions. During the crack wars in the South Bronx in the early '90s, he created the MICA Program at Fordham Tremont Community Mental Health Center, that today still treats over 100 people daily.

He is married to Jocelyn Myoen Kahn and has two children, Langston Shodo Kahn and Nia Merica Kahn.

By clicking on the Director's name you can see their full bio.

Founder and Spiritual Director: Roshi Bernie Glassman

Bernie Glassman

Bernie Glassman is a world-renowned pioneer in the American Zen Movement and a leading creative figure in socially engaged Buddhism. He is the founder and co-spiritual director of the Zen Peacemakers. He has extended Dharma practice from the meditation hall to the arenas of social service, business, environmental stewardship and conflict resolution. He has been honored with numerous ethics, service and achievement awards.

 

Chairperson and Tresurer: Dharma Holder Chris Panos

Chris Panos

Chris Panos, a Dharma Holder in the Zen Peacemakers, is currently a founder and principal of Fundamental Investment Advisors. Over the past 25 years, he has founded several other successful businesses. Chris founded the Bay Area Peacemaker Circle, has been extensively involved with Tibetan refugees, and serves as Board President of Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco.

 

Vice Spiritual Director and President: Roshi Paul Genki Kahn

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Paul Genki Kahn began Zen training with Aitken Roshi. He transferred to the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1972 to become a priest under Maezumi Roshi, served as his personal attendant, and was the Director of Training there. In 1980 he came to New York with Roshi Bernie to establish the Zen Community of New York. He is also Spiritual Director of High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community in Wyckoff, NJ,

For the past 25 years Genki has had a private psychotherapy practice and has designed and administered public and private mental health programs for disadvantaged people in New York and New Jersey. He has served on state and county mental health committees. He pioneered quality treatment for persons with severe and persistent mental illness who also had drug and alcohol addictions.

 

Secretary: Sensei Eve Myonen Marko

Sensei Myonen

Eve Myonen Marko is a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and currently the resident teacher at the Montague Farm Zendo, the Motherhouse Zendo of the Zen Peacemakers. With her husband and teacher, Roshi Bernie Glassman, she co-founded Peacemaker Circle International, which linked and trained spiritually-based social activists and peacemakers around the world. During that time she helped develop coalitions of Civil Society activists in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. During the 1980s she worked in the Greyston Mandala, a Buddhist-inspired network of for-profits and not-for-profits in Yonkers, New York.

She was a long-time member of the Zen Community of New York, which founded the Greyston Mandala organizations in Yonkers, New York. She was critical in the organization’s progress and developed resources and funding for Greyston Family Inn and Greyston Foundation. Marko was also Executive Director for the Music For the World Foundation, which funds and advocates on behalf of music education programs in American schools.

 

Dharma Holder James Daikan Bastien

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Jim worked for 17 years at Father Flanagan’s Girls and Boys Town, in Boys Town, Nebraska. In 1990, Jim founded Girls and Boys Town of New England. Jim has served as the Director of Child and Adolescent Residential Services for McLean Hospital, Director of Family-Based Services for the Northeast Center for Youth and Families,

Executive Director of the Kolbourne School, Senior Administrator at Alternative Behavioral Services, and Vice President of Residential Services at Brightside for Families and Children.

He has published numerous research articles, has presented at national, regional and local human service conferences, and has served on numerous child welfare, mental health and educational boards.

 

Sensei Merle Kodo Boyd

kodo

Kodo began sitting in 1985. After a few years of practicing alone at home with the guidance of Dharma books, she ventured out and found a sitting group led by Sister Richardson. She received Jukai in 1994 and Priest Ordination in 1996 from Roshi Jishu Holmes. After Jishu's death, Kodo continued her practice with Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, from whom she received Preceptor Transmission in 2002 and Dharma Transmission in March 2006.

Kodo is African-American and was raised in the deep South. She has worked most of her life as a clinical social worker practicing psychotherapy and is now retired from that profession.

 

Dr. Cheryl Giles

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Cheryl A. Giles is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling at Harvard Divinity School Dr. Giles is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in providing culturally competent care to underserved populations. She has extensive experience in the treatment of children, adolescents, and families with significant mental illness, high risk behaviors, and traumatic stress. Her primary research interests are identifying the role that trauma and health care disparities play in developing healthy adolescents, and exploring the spirituality of GLBT youth. She is a past member of the Massachusetts Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. Currently, she is member of the Board of Directors of Greater Boston PFLAG.

Dr. Giles has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1996. She teaches courses in Buddhist Ministry at HDS where she is actively involved in mentoring students who are interested in socially engaged Buddhism.

 

Sensei William Jikai Greenberg

greenberg

Bill is a Zen Teacher and Priest and President of the Board of Directors of High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community.

He is a psychiatrist, a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Medical School (1978) and Psychiatry Residency Training Program (1982). He has had an active career in clinical, academic and research psychiatry, the Training Director of the Bergen Pines Psychiatry Residency Program from 1997-2000, has authored scholarly publications and been the recipient of several awards, including the 1996 Psychiatrist Recognition Award from the New Jersey Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He is the leader of a Spirituality and Psychotherapy Study Group, a member of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on Religion, Spirituality and Psychotherapy, and the Immediate Past President of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the NYU School of Medicine, and Director of the Outpatient Research Program at Nathan Kline Psychiatric Research Institute in Orangeburg, New York, and maintains a private practice in Bergen County.

 

Sensei Sheila Jinen Hixon

Sheila Hixon

Sheila Jinen Hixon is a Zen Teacher and a Founding Multi-Faith Peacemaker in the Zen Peacemakers. She has been a guiding force in the Zen Peacemakers and has played a major role in the development and planning for the House of One People in Montague Massachusetts.

She serves on the board of Tricycle and her family’s charitable foundation.

 

Sensei Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña

Paco

Francisco "Paco" Genkoji Lugoviña is a Buddhist priest and founder of the Hudson River Peacemaker Center - House of One People in Yonkers.

Paco has launched several successful housing development businesses since 1968. Paco served as Chairman of the State of New York Mortgage Agency, was Bank Regulator on the New York State Banking Board for nine years, and was Chairman of the National Hispanic Housing Coalition. He is a founder of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and served on numerous business, philanthropic, arts and service organization Boards.

 

Sensei Fleet Ryushin Maull

Fleet Maull

Fleet Maull, M.A., Ph.D. candidate, was a senior student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and is an ordained priest and Sensei (Zen Teacher) in the Zen Peacemakers. Fleet currently serves as the Director for Peacemaker Community Colorado and Co-Director of Colorado Peacemaker Institute.

Fleet is the founder of the Prison Dharma Network and the National Prison Hospice Association, which promote contemplative spirituality and compassionate end-of-life care for inmates. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Naropa University. In addition, he works as a management consultant and executive coach.

 

Kathe McKenna

mckenna

Kathe McKenna is Executive Director of Haley House, Boston, which has been serving the poor and indigent for 40 years. Haley House has a residential staff and provides free food at its South End soup kitchen, and operates low-income housing, a quality bakery and a café.

 

Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara

Enkyo O'hara

Pat Enkyo O'Hara is the Co-Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha and Abbot of Dotoku-ji / Village Zendo. Enkyo's focus is on true self-expression, peacemaking and HIV/AIDS activism. She holds a Ph. D. in Media Ecology and taught Multi-media at New York University for over 20 years.

 

Christopher Queen

chris_queen

Christopher S. Queen, PhD is Lecturer on the Study of Religion and the Dean of Students and Alumni Relations for Continuing Education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He earned degrees in the history and phenomenology of religion from Oberlin College, Union Theological Seminary, and Boston University. His publications include Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, with Charles Prebish and Damien Keown), Engaged Buddhism in the West (Wisdom, 2000); American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship (Curzon, 1999, with Duncan Ryuken Williams); and Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia (SUNY, 1996, with Sallie B. King). He is working on a book profiling the Indian Dalit ("untouchable") followers of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, who have converted to Buddhism since 1956, and a critical study of Ambedkar and the sources of socially engaged Buddhism.

 

Sensei Alan Hozan Senauke

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Alan is a Soto Zen priest and teacher in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He was ordained by Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1989. Alan is Vice-Abbot of Berkeley Zen Center in California. From early 1991 through the end of 2001, Alan was Executive Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Alan is one of the founders of Think Sangha, a group of Buddhist-activist intellectuals and writers. He continues to work as a social activist around national and international issues of peace, human rights, structural violence, and the development of a Socially Engaged Buddhism. In another realm, Alan has been a student and performer of American traditional music for nearly 40 years.

 

Standing Committees:

Bernie Glassman

Roshi Bernie Glassman
Founder
Spiritual Director

 

Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara
Co-Spiritual Director:
Zen Peacemakers Sangha
Zen Peacemakers Order

Enkyo O'hara
genki

Roshi Paul Genki Kahn
President:
Vice-Spiritual Director
Co-Spiritual Director:
Zen Peacemakers Sangha
Zen Peacemakers Order

 

Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Head Teacher
Mother House Zendo
Montague Farm Zendo

Sensei Myonen
seiki

Laurie Smith
Maezumi Institute
Program Manager

 

Rev. Catherine Anraku Hondorp
Head Priest
Mother House Temple
Essence of Zen Temple

anraku

Jessica Bruno
Bookkeeper

 

Tim Raines
Caretaker

tim

Maezumi Institute Faculty Biographies

Upcoming Faculty

Click on a faculty name for their biography.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A
B

Nancy Mujo Baker

James Daikan Bastien

Merle Kodo Boyd

Jeff Bridges

Ellen Burstyn

Mirabai Bush

Ken Tetsuji Byalin

 
C

Michele Cassou

Andrew Cohen

Moshe "Mr. YooWho" Cohen

Peter "Kuku Sama" Cunningham

 
D

Krishna Das

Michel Engu Dobbs

 
E
   
F

Fariha al Jerrahi Friedrich

     
G

Alisa Glassman

Bernie Glassman

Joseph Goldstein

Marguerite Teido Gregory

H

Joan Halifax

     
I
J
K

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Paul Genki Kahn

Byron Katie

Robert Jinsen Kennedy

Larry Shubalananda Kopp

 
L
   
M

Eve Myonen Marko

Peter Muryo Matthiessen

Fleet Shinryu Maull

Bonnie Mennell

Mark Mininberg

     
N

Bill Waji Nagahiro

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

 
O

Pat Enkyo O'Hara

     
P

Sr. Helen Prejean

Q

Christopher Queen

     
R

Ali Rahman

Jeff Roth

   
S

Sharon Salzberg

Alan Senauke

Don Ani Shalom Singer

John Sprague

   
T

Kazuaki Tanahashi

Bruce Teague

Robert Thurman

Nur Habib Tiven

June Tanoue

U
V

Tony Vacca

W

Margaret Wheatley

Paul Winter

   
X
Y
Z

Zuleikha

     

Maezumi Institute Faculty Photos

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To see the whole set of Faculty Photos, please click on any photo.

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You can use the list below to link to a given Empowerment.
(Seniors are listed alphabetically within each Empowerment Grouping.)

Spiritual Directors      ZPS Elders      Dharma Center Elders      Roshis      Senseis      Dharma Holders
Circle Path      Social Action Path      Entrepreneur Path      Multi-Faith Path     
Preceptors      Abbots      Priests (Denkai)      Full Priests (new ceremony)
Buddha Seat Holders      Circle Stewards      Dummy Holders of OD
Preceptors      Zen Entrepreneurs      Multi-Faith Peacemakers

Enkyo and Bernie
Roshi Enkyo and Roshi Bernie

Spiritual Directors

Blessed by Elder Robert Sokan Lee

  1. Bernie Glassman

  2. Pat Enkyo O'Hara







ZPS Elders

Bob Sokan Lee, the Elder
Bob Sokan Lee, The Elder






Dharma Center Elders

Roshis (Zen Masters)

Empowered by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi

  1. Bernie Glassman

Empowered by Bernie Glassman

  1. Niklaus Jinshu Brantschen, s.j. (Jan. 17, 1999)

  2. Pia Jinji Gyger, StKW (Jan. 17, 1999)

  3. Joan Jiko Halifax (Jan. 17, 1999)

  4. Lex Nur Jikai Hixon (1941-1995)

  5. Sandra Jishu Holmes (1941-1998)

  6. Robert Jinsen Kennedy, s.j. (Jan. 17, 1999)

  7. Peter Muryo Matthiessen

  8. Wendy Egyoku Nakao (Jun. 2004)

  9. Pat Enkyo O'Hara (Jun. 2004)

  10. Janet Jinne Richardson, csjp (Jan. 17, 1999)

  11. Anne Seisen Saunders (Feb. 17, 2007)

  12. Gerry Shishin Wick (Jan. 18, 2006)

Empowered by Bernie Glassman and Junyu Kuroda

  1. Coen de Souza (Oct. 12, 2007)

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Senseis (Zen Teachers)

Empowered by Bernie Glassman

  1. Alfred Jitsudo Ancheta (Jan. 17, 1999)

  2. Nancy Mujo Baker

  3. Stefano Mui Barragato

  4. Ken Tetsuji Byalin (Feb. 18, 2007)

  5. Fariha al Jerrahi Koji Friedrich (Apr. 20, 2008)

  6. Grover Genro Gauntt (Jan. 17, 1999)

  7. Sheila Jinen Hixon Multi-Faith Path (Feb. 25, 2007)

  8. Paul Genki Kahn (Feb. 18, 2007)

  9. Robert Sokan Lee (Feb. 25, 2007)

  10. Francisco Genkoji "Paco" Lugoviña Social Action Path (Feb. 25, 2007)

  11. Eve Myonen Marko (Jan. 17, 1999)

  12. Fleet Shinryu Maull Social Action Path (Feb. 25, 2007)

  13. Don Ani Shalom Singer

Empowered by Peter Muryo Matthiessen

  1. Michel Engu Dobbs

  2. Dorothy Daien Friedman

Empowered by Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  1. Barbara Joshin O'Hara

  2. Barbara Joshin O'Hara

  3. Jules Shuzen Harris

Empowered by Wendy Egyoku Nakao

  1. Merle Kodo Angyo Plum Dragon Boyd

  2. Kipp Ryodo Solitary Heart Hawley

  3. John Daishin Plum-Mountain Buksbazen

Empowered by Robert Jinsen Kennedy, s.j.

  1. Ray Ryuzan Cicetti

  2. Kevin Jiun Hunt, oc

  3. Paul Shoju Schubert

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  Fr. Hunts Dharma Transmission Ceremony photoset

Empowered by Janet Jinne Richardson, csjp

  1. Bruce Seiryu Blackman (July 1, 2004)

  2. Rose Mary Myoan Dougherty, ssnd (July 12, 2006)

  3. Rosalie Jishin McQuaide, csjp (Jan. 17, 1999)

  4. Barbara Soshin Craig, rsm (June 21, 2002)

Empowered by Stefano Mui Barragato

  1. Margaret Ne-Eka Barragato

Empowered by Niklaus Jinshu Brantschen, s.j. and Pia Jinji Gyger, StKW

  1. Anna Myoan Gamma, StKW

Empowered by Niklaus Jinshu Brantschen, s.j.

  1. Erwin Mu-I no shinnin Egloff

Empowered by Pia Jinji Gyger, StKW

  1. Peter Ki-Gen Widmer

Empowered by Gerry Shishin Wick

  1. Ilia Shinko Peréz (April 7, 2004)

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  ZPS Senseis photoset

Dharma Holders

    Empowered by Bernie Glassman

    Empowered by Sandra Jishu Holmes

    Empowered by Wendy Egyoku Nakao

    • Raul Ensho Angyo Berge (Aug 6, 2006)

    • Gary Koan Janka (Aug 6, 2006)

    • Patricia Shingetsu Faith-Sword Guzy (Aug 6, 2006)

    Empowered by Robert Jinsen Kennedy, s.j.

    1. Michael Holleran

    Empowered by Pat Enkyo O'Hara

    Empowered by Paul Genki Kahn

    Empowered by Bruce Seiryu Blackman

    1. Ed Sullivan

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  ZPS Dharma Holders photoset

Circle Path

Empowered by Bernie Glassman as Dharma Holders

Buddha Seat Holders

Sheila Hixon
Sheila Hixon

  1. Grover Genro Gauntt

  2. Bernie Glassman

  3. Marguerite Teido Gregory

  4. Sheila Jinen Hixon

  5. Paul Genki Kahn

  6. Robert Sokan Lee

  7. Francisco Paco Genkoji Lugoviña

  8. Eve Myonen Marko

  9. Fleet Shinryu Maull

  10. Wendy Egyoku Nakao

  11. Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  12. Christopher Panos

  13. Merrinell Jinen Phillips

  14. Noemi Koji Santana

  15. Paul Shoju Schwerdt

  16. Barbara Salaam Wegmüller

  17. Roland Yakushi Wegmüller

  18. Mark Sando Mininberg

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  ZPS Buddha Holders photoset

Circle Stewards

  1. Brendan Breen

  2. David Mokusui Bruner

  3. Reuven Goldstein

  4. Marguerite Teido Gregory

  5. Ed Knight

  6. Robert Sokan Lee

  7. Andreas Leszkovsky

  8. Francisco Paco Genkoji Lugoviña

  9. Christopher Panos

  10. John Richardson

  11. Cynthia Roderick

  12. Noemi Koji Santana

  13. Trudy Schoepko

  14. Paul Shoju Schwerdt

  15. Zang Starbuck

  16. Jose Ovidio C. Waldemar

  17. Barbara Salaam Wegmüller

  18. Roland Yakushi Wegmüller

Social Action Path

Empowered by Bernie Glassman as Senseis

Empowered by Bernie Glassman as Dharma Holders

Entrepreneur Path

Empowered by Bernie Glassman as Dharma Holders

  1. Mark Mininberg (Jan. 19, 2008)

  2. Christopher Panos

  3. Brent Shigeoka

Multi-Faith Path

Empowered by Bernie Glassman as Sensei

Empowered by Bernie Glassman as Dharma Holder

Preceptors

Empowered by Bernie Glassman

  1. Joan Jiko Halifax

  2. Paul Genki Kahn

  3. Wendy Egyoku Nakao

  4. Pat Enkyo O'Hara

Empowered by Bernie Glassman and Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  1. Nancy Mujo Baker

  2. Grover Genro Gauntt

  3. Eve Myonen Marko

Empowered by Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  1. Catherine Eishun Anraku Hondorp (Aug 4, 2007)

  2. Sinclair Mokushin Shinryu Thomson (Aug 4, 2007)

Empowered by Paul Genki Kahn

  • William Jikai Greenberg (Feb 2008)

Empowered by Eve Myonen Marko

  1. Barbara Salaam Wegmüller (May 11, 2008)

  2. Roland Yakushi Wegmüller (May 11, 2008)

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  First Lay Preceptors Ceremony photoset

Abbots

  1. Joan Jiko Halifax

  2. Wendy Egyoku Nakao

  3. Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  4. Anne Seisen Saunders

  5. Beate Genko Stolters

Fully Ordained Zen Priests (Denkai)

Ken, Paco and Dianne
Ken, Paco and Dianne

Empowered by Bernie Glassman

  1. Stefano Mui Barragato

  2. Joan Jiko Halifax

  3. Sandra Jishu Holmes

  4. Sally Sonen Kealy

  5. Francisco Genkoji "Paco" Lugoviña

  6. Michael Daigu O'Keefe

  7. Peter Muryo Matthiessen

  8. Wendy Egyoku Nakao

  9. Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  10. Anne Seisen Saunders

  11. Dianne Soshin Shainberg

Empowered by Peter Muryo Matthiessen

  1. Michel Engu Dobbs

  2. Dorothy Daien Friedman

  3. Dennis Ryugin Snyder (Dec 8, 2006)

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  Dennis Snyder's Denkai photoset

Empowered by Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  1. Trudi Jiji Jinpu Hirsch

Empowered by Wendy Egyoku Nakao

  1. Maggie Jifu Gower (Mar 25, 1998)

  2. Merle Kodo Boyd (Dec 6, 2002)

  3. Raul Ensho Angyo Berge (Dec 6, 2003)

  4. John Daishin Plum-Mountain Buksbazen (Dec 6, 2003)

  5. Gary Koan Janka (Jul 28, 2006)

  6. Patricia Shingetsu Faith-Sword Guzy (Jul 28, 2006)

Empowered by Stefano Mui Barragato

  1. Margaret Ne-Eka Barragato

  2. Linda Abhaya Paquin

Ordained Zen Priests (Final Vows as Full Priest)

Empowered by Pat Enkyo O'Hara

  1. Catherine Eishun Anraku Hondorp (Aug 12, 2005)

  2. Sinclair Mokushin Shinryu Thomson (Aug 12, 2005)

  3. Julie Kirin Myoko Terestman (Aug 9, 2007)

  4. Randall Chijo Ryotan Eiger (Aug 9, 2007)

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  ZPS Priests photoset

Dummy Holders in the Order of DisOrder

KuKu Sama getting friends to pose
KuKu Sama getting friends to pose.

Graphic depiction of the House of One People
Mother House of the Zen Peacemakers

Bambushain
Spiritual Director: Dharma Holder Paul Shoju Schwerdt
Aachen, Germany

Boulder Peacemaker Institute
Spiritual Director: Sensei Fleet Shinryu Maull
Boulder, CO

Clare Sangha/Zen Community of Baltimore
Spiritual Director: Sensei Bruce Seiryu Blackman
Baltimore, MD

Clear Mind Zen Sangha
Spiritual Director: Rev. So Daiho Hilbert-roshi
Las Cruces, NM

Empty Bowl Zen Community
Spiritual Director: Sensei Raymond Ruzan Cicetti
Morristown, NJ

Flowing River Sangha
Spiritual Director: Sensei Barbara Shoshin Craig
Wilkes-Barre, PA

Glassman-Lassalle Zenlinie
Spiritual Director: Roshi Niklaus Brantschen and Roshi Pia Gyger
Edlibach/Zug, Switzerland

Great Mountain Zen Center
Spiritual Leader: Roshi Gerry Shishin Wick
Lafayette, CO

High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community
Spiritual Director: Roshi Paul Genki Kahn
Wyckoff, NJ

High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community Peacemaker Circle
Spiritual Director: Dharma Holder David Mokusui Bruner
Wyckoff, NJ

Hudson River Peacemaker Center
Spiritual Directors: Sensei Paco Genkoji Lugoviña and Sensei Grover Genro Gauntt
Yonkers, NY

Lassalle Kontemplationsschule
Founders: Roshi Niklaus Brantschen and Roshi Pia Gyger
Edlibach/Zug, Switzerland

Light Within Light
Spiritual Director: Shaykha Amina Al Jerrahi
Mexico City, Mexico

Lincroft Zen Sangha
Spiritual Director: Sensei Merle Kodo Angyo Plum Dragon Boyd
Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Maezumi Institute
President: Roshi Paul Genki Kahn
Montague, MA

Montague Farm Zendo
Spiritual Director: Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Montague, MA

Morning Star Zendo
Spiritual Director: Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy, s.j.
Jersey City, NJ

No Traces Zendo
Spiritual Director: Sensei Nancy Mujo Baker
New York, NY

Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order
Spiritual Director: Shaykha Fariha al Jerrahi Friedrich
New York, NY

Ocean Zen Center
Spiritual Director: Roshi Peter Muryo Matthiessen
Sagaponeck, NY

Order of DisOrder
Coordinator: Sensei Michel NoCanDo Engu Dobbs
Wizard Land

Order of Minstrels
Coordinator: Dharma Holder John Sprague
Montague, MA

Peacemaker Institute
Spiritual Director: Sensei Fleet Shinryu Maull
Boulder, CO

Shir-Hadash Contemplative Community
Spiritual Director: Sensei Rabbi Don Ani Shalom Singer
LA, CA

Silver Spring Zendo/ One Heart Sangha
Spiritual Director: Sensei Rose Mary Myoan Dougherty, SSND
Silver Spring, MD

Soji Zen Center
Spiritual Director: Sensei Jules Shuzen Harris
Lansdowne, PA

Sweetwater Zen Center
Spiritual Director: Roshi Anne Seisen Saunders
National City, CA

Taikozan Tenzui Zenji - Comunidade Zen Budista Zendo Brasil
Spiritual Director: Roshi Coen de Souza
São Paulo, Brazil

Upaya Zen Center
Spiritual Director: Roshi Joan Jiko Halifax
Santa Fe, NM

Via Integralis
Founders: Roshi Niklaus Brantschen and Roshi Pia Gyger
Edlibach/Zug, Switzerland

Via Zen
Steward José Ovidio C. Waldmar
Porte Alegre, Brazil

Village Zendo
Spiritual Director: Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara
Manhattan, NY

Zen Center of Los Angeles
Spiritual Director: Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao
Los Angeles, CA

Zen Center on Main Street
Spiritual Director: Dharma Holder Catherine Eishun Anraku Hondorp
Northampton, MA

Zen Community of Staten Island
Spiritual Director: Sensei Ken Tetsuji Byalin
Staten Island, NY

Zen Peacemaker Circle Germany
Director: Steward Paul Shoju Schwerdt
Aachen, Germany

Zen Peacemakers Circles - Europe
Spiritual Director: Circle Dharma Holder Barbara Salaam Wegmüller
Bern, Switzerland

Zen Peacemakers Circles - International
Co-Coordinators: Circle Dharma Holder Barbara Salaam Wegmüller
and Circle Dharma Holder Margi Teido Gregory

Zen Peacemakers Circles - USA
Spiritual Director: Circle Dharma Holder Margi Teido Gregory
Northampton, MA

Zen Zentrum Basel
Spiritual Director: Sensei Peter Ki-Gen Widmer
Basel, Switzerlanddd

In 1997 a group gathered together to develop the ZPO Precepts. This group was called the Founding Teachers and consisted of Grover Genro Gauntt, Joan Jiko Halifax, Eve Myonen Marko, Wendy Egyoku Nakao, and Pat Enkyo O'Hara.

The ZPO Co-Founders, Sandra Jishu Holmes and Bernie Glassman along with the Founding Teachers spent about one year refining the Precepts and creating the ZPO Rule. Jishu and Bernie decided to create a role within the Zen Peacemaker Family for Preceptors (lay or clergy.) These Preceptors would put extra effort into the study and actualization of the Rule.

Grover Genro Gauntt

Sensei Genro
Sensei Genro Gauntt

Sensei Grover Genro Gauntt, is a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and a dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman. He started studying with Maezumi Roshi at the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1971 serving as Board Chairman there from 1987 to 1997. After the passing of Maezumi Roshi in 1995, he worked closely with Bernie and started serving full time as Executive Director of the Peacemaker Community in early 1997. He studied at the University of Southern California and at the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA in finance. Feeling that his path was to unfold from a lay perspective, he pursued a professional career in real estate and finance forming Western Property Research, a real estate consulting firm that operated from 1984 to 1997. He has two sons, John and Parker. Baptized as a Congregationalist and raised as a Presbyterian., his interfaith studies have led him to explore Native American traditions and Sufi Muslim practices. Further interfaith plunges will include Jewish and Catholic retreats.

Joan Jiko Halifax

Roshi Jiko
Roshi Joan Halifax

Roshi Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

She has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty years and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying.

For the past twenty-five years, she has been active in environmental work. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism.

In May, 2005 she became a Spiritual Director, in Training with Roshis Bernie Glassman and Pat Enkyo O'Hara, of the Zen Peacemakers.

She is Founder and Director of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners.She is founder of the Ojai Foundation, was an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University, and has taught in many universities, monasteries, and medical centers around the world.

She studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman.

Eve Myonen Marko

Sensei Myonen
Sensei Eve Marko

Sensei Eve Myonen Marko is a dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman and a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Through her numerous writings and her role as one of the leaders of the Order’s annual bearing witness retreats at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she has made the teachings of Zen in the areas of peacemaking and love accessible to a broad audience.

Eve has written and edited numerous articles about the Zen Peacemakers and its member activists, and also collaborated with Roshi Bernie Glassman in the writing of Bearing Witness: A Zen Master’s Instructions on Making Peace, which was published by Random House in 1998. She has also written biographies and mystery books for children, published by Waldman Publishing.

She was a long-time member of the Zen Community of New York, which founded the Greyston Mandala organizations in Yonkers, New York. She was critical in the organization’s progress and developed resources and funding for Greyston Family Inn and Greyston Foundation. Marko was also Executive Director for the Music For the World Foundation, which funds and advocates on behalf of music education programs in American schools.

 

Wendy Egyoku Nakao

Roshi Egyoku
Roshi Egyoku Nakao

Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, was born Wendy Lou Nakao in Honolulu, Hawaii, around the middle of the last century. Of Japanese-Portuguese ancestry, she grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii. She attended the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where she received a BA in East Asian Studies and an MA in Librarianship. In Seattle in 1975, she began sitting on a dare. "Somebody bet me fifty dollars that I couldn't sit still and keep quiet for a week. I accepted the challenge and did a seven-day Zen sesshin. It was absolutely horrible, but I was hooked."

After three years of zazen in Seattle, Egyoku moved to the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1978 to study with Taisan Maezumi Roshi. She was ordained by him in 1983, and served as his Head Monk in 1988. During her training at ZCLA, she served in various capacities, including as Editor of The Ten Directions and the Center's Chief Administrator. She was Maezumi Roshi's personal assistant at the time of his death, in 1995.

In 1996, she received Dharma Transmission from Roshi Bernie Glassman, Maezumi Roshi's first dharma successor, in Yonkers, New York. At Roshi Glassman's request, she returned to ZCLA as the Head Priest and Teacher in 1997, and was installed as the third Abbot of ZCLA in 1999.

Both Roshi's temple and teaching lineage comes through Maezumi Roshi, whose background was unusual in that he was a Soto priest who studied a Rinzai koan system. The orientation of her Dharma Transmission teacher Roshi Glassman in social action and peacemaking is also a major factor in her evolving teaching style.

A founding member of the Zen Peacemaker Order, Roshi has a strong commitment to rooting practice in our flesh and bones and the myriad forms of our contemporary culture.

Pat Enkyo O'Hara

Enkyo O'hara
Roshi Enkyo O'Hara

Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara is the Abbot of Dotoku-ji / Village Zendo.

Roshi Enkyo is a Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in the Soto tradition. She studied with John Daido Loori Roshi of Zen Mountain Monastery and Taizan Maezumi Roshi of the Zen Center of Los Angeles/Zen Mountain Center. She is a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order.

In 1997 she received Shiho (dharma transmission) from Roshi Bernie Glassman and in June, 2004, she received inka from him in an empowerment ceremony held at the Mother House of the Zen Peacemaker Family in Montague, Ma.

Bernie and Enkyo
ZP Co-Spiritual Directors Roshi Enkyo and Roshi Bernie

In May, 2005 she became Co-Spiritual Director, with Bernie Glassman, of the Zen Peacemakers.





Enkyo's focus is on true self-expression, peacemaking and HIV/AIDS activism. She holds a Ph. D. in Media Ecology and taught Multi-media at New York University for over 20 years.