IMPORTANT NAMES IN THE HISTORY OF ZEN IN AMERICA

D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966):   student of Soyen Shaku
	1897	came to to work with Paul Carus (LaSalle, Ill.)
	1907	back to Japan
	1911	married Beatrice Lane
	1936	lectured in England, met Alan Watts
	1939	came to (Hawaii, California)
	1951	moved to New York, began seminars at Columbia (until 1957); students included Philip Kapleau, Erich Fromm, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
	1957	helped establish Cambridge Buddhist Association

Nyogen Senzaki:   student of Soyen Shaku
	1905	came to U.S. with Soyen (SF, LA); established Mentorgarten and "floating zendo
	1955	returned to Japan, died 195

Sokei-an:	1906	came to U.S. with Sokatsu Shaku (another student of Soyen Shaku)
	1916	moved to New York
	1931	established Buddhist Society of America (later First Zen Institute)
	1944	married Ruth Fuller Everett, Alan Watts' mother-in-law (she then became Ruth Fuller Sasaki

Alan Watts (1915-1973)
	1938	came from England to New York with wife and mother-in-law, Ruth Fuller Everett; all three worked closely with Sokei-an
	1940s	became Episcopal minister
	1957	published The Way of Zen; became as well-known as D.T. Suzuk

Ruth Fuller Sasaki:  1944  married Sokei-an
	1949	moved to Kyoto (Daitokuji), organized Rinzai translation project (translators included Philip Yampolsky, Seizan Yanagida, Burton Watson, Gary Snyder)

Shunryu Suzuki:

1959  came to U.S. as priest of Sokoji, or Soto Zen Mission, SF; founded Zen Center of San Francisco; died 1971

Taizan Maezumi:    1956  came to U.S.
	1968	founded Zen Center of Los Angeles
	1995	died; successors founded White Plum Sangha (network of Zen centers)

Hakuun Yasutani:

Sanbo Kyodan school of Zen (combines Soto and Rinzai methods); trained Kapleau, Eido and Maezumi

Philip Kapleau: early 1950s: attended D.T. Suzuki's lectures at Columbia
	1953	moved to Japan for Zen training, studied with Yasutani
	1965	published The Three Pillars of Zen
	1966	founded Rochester Zen Center
	2004	died

Robert Aitken: 1942   met R.H. Blyth in POW camp in Japan
	1950s	studied with Nakagawa Soen and Yasutani-roshi in Japan and Nyogen Senzaki in LA
	1959	founded Diamond Sangha, Honolulu

Gary Snyder:    1951    read D.T. Suzuki's Essays in Zen Buddhism
	1952-	studied Chinese and Japanese at UC Berkeley; met Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
	1956-65	studied Zen at Daitokuji, Kyoto (with short U.S. interlude in 1958)
	1975	won Pulitzer Prize for Turtle Island

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg	1951-	attended D.T. Suzuki's talks at Columbia
		met Gary Snyder
	1969	Kerouac died
	1997	Ginsburg died

Eido Tai Shimano:   Roshi of Zen Studies Society, New York City

Thich Thien-an:

Vietnamese Rinzai master; founded International Buddhist Meditation Center (LA, late 1960s), and University of Oriental Studies (LA, 1973); died 1980

Thich Nhat-hanh:

Founded Tiep Hien ("Interbeing") Order in Vietnam; "engaged Buddhism;" now based in Plum Village, near Bordeaux, France

Richard Baker:

1971    succeeded Shunryu Suzuki as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center; forced out in 1983

Dainin Katagiri:

Assistant to Shunryu Suzuki at SFZC: founded Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, 1970; died 1990

Sheng Yen:

1976

Came to New York from Taiwan; founded Chan Meditation in Elmhurst, Queens (American branch of Dharma Drum Mountain in Taiwan)

Bernard Tetsugen Glassman:

First dharma successor to Maezumi Roshi, ZCLA; founded Zen Community of New York and Zen Peacemaker Order