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John Daido Loori

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John Daido Loori (June 14, 1931 – October 9, 2009) was a Zen Buddhist rōshi who served as the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order and CEO of Dharma Communications. [1]

52 relations: Abbot, American Civil Liberties Union, American Museum of Natural History, Aperture (magazine), Audiovisual, Bonnie Myotai Treace, Buddhism, Buddhism in the United States, California, Catholic Church, Chemist, Chief executive officer, Columbia University Press, Darkroom, Dōgen, Dharma transmission, Food industry, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Japan, Jersey City, New Jersey, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, List of Rinzai Buddhists, Lung cancer, Magazine, Manhattan, Middletown, Orange County, New York, Minor White, Mount Tremper, New York, Mountain Record, Mountains and Rivers Order, Naropa University, Nature photography, New York (state), Random House, Rōshi, Rinzai school, Sanbo Kyodan, Sōtō, Shihō, Shinji Shōbōgenzō, Soen Nakagawa, Taizan Maezumi, The New York Times, Time Life, Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States, United States, University of California Press, White Plum Asanga, Zen, ..., Zen Mountain Monastery, Zen ranks and hierarchy. Expand index (2 more) »

Abbot

Abbot, meaning father, is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.

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Aperture (magazine)

Aperture magazine, based in New York City, is an international quarterly journal specializing in photography.

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Audiovisual

Audiovisual (AV) means possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, church services and live theater productions.

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Bonnie Myotai Treace

Bonnie Myotai Treace is the founder and teacher of Hermitage Heart; she leads a program of training in Garrison, New York and Asheville, North Carolina.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Buddhism in the United States

Buddhism, once thought of as a mysterious religion from the East, has now become very popular in the West, and is one of the largest religions in the United States.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chemist

A chemist (from Greek chēm (ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchimista) is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Darkroom

A darkroom is a workshop used by photographers working with photographic film to make prints and carry out other associated tasks.

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Dōgen

Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; 19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), or Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師), was a Japanese Buddhist priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.

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Dharma transmission

In Zen-Buddhism, Dharma transmission is a custom in which a person is established as a "successor in an unbroken lineage of teachers and disciples, a spiritual 'bloodline' (kechimyaku) theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself."Haskel, 2 The dharma lineage reflects the importance of family-structures in ancient China, and forms a symbolic and ritual recreation of this system for the monastical "family".

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Food industry

The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world population.

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold is Rōshi of the Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) founded by John Daido Loori, from whom Shugen received shiho, or dharma transmission, in July 1997.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.

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Kazuaki Tanahashi

is an accomplished Japanese calligrapher, Zen teacher, author and translator of Buddhist texts from Japanese and Chinese to English, most notably works by Dogen (he began his translation of Shobogenzo in his twenties).

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Konrad Ryushin Marchaj

Konrad Ryushin Marchaj was from October 2009 to January 2015 abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, the main house of the Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) of Zen Buddhism, founded by John Daido Loori, Roshi, from whom Marchaj received shiho in June 2009.

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List of Rinzai Buddhists

Founder.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.

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Magazine

A magazine is a publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published (sometimes referred to as an online magazine).

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Middletown, Orange County, New York

Middletown is a city in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Minor White

Minor Martin White (July 9, 1908 – June 24, 1976) was an American photographer, theoretician, critic and educator.

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Mount Tremper, New York

Mount Tremper is a hamlet in the Town of Shandaken in Ulster County, New York, United States.

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Mountain Record

Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioners' Journal a quarterly journal is a record of the sayings and doings of the Mountains and Rivers Order, its main house Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York, and its affiliated temples and sitting groups.

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Mountains and Rivers Order

The Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism (MRO) is an organization of associated temples, practice centers and sitting groups in the United States and abroad.

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Naropa University

Naropa University is a private liberal arts college in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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Nature photography

Nature photography is a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural scenes and textures.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Rōshi

(Japanese: "old teacher"; "old master"; Chinese) is a title in Zen Buddhism with different usages depending on sect and county.

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Rinzai school

The Rinzai school (Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: 临济宗 línjì zōng) is one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (with Sōtō and Ōbaku).

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Sanbo Kyodan

is a lay Zen sect derived from both the Soto (Caodong) and the Rinzai (Linji) traditions.

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Sōtō

Sōtō Zen or is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku).

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Shihō

refers to a series of ceremonies in Sōtō Zen Buddhism wherein a unsui receives Dharma transmission, becoming part of the dharma lineage of his or her teacher.

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Shinji Shōbōgenzō

The Shinji Shōbōgenzō or True Dharma Eye 300 Cases (Shōbōgenzō Sambyakusoku), or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Mana Shōbōgenzō), compiled by Eihei Dōgen in 1223-1227, was first published in Japanese in 1766.

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Soen Nakagawa

was a Taiwanese-born Japanese rōshi and Zen Buddhist master in the Rinzai tradition.

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Taizan Maezumi

Hakuyū Taizan Maezumi (前角 博雄 Maezumi Hakuyū, February 24, 1931–May 15, 1995) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and rōshi, and lineage holder in the Sōtō, Rinzai, and Sanbo Kyodan traditions of Zen.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Time Life

Direct Holdings Global LLC, through its subsidiaries StarVista Live, Lifestyle Products Group and Time Life, is a creator and direct marketer that is known for selling books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products.

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Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

Below is a timeline of important events regarding Zen Buddhism in the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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White Plum Asanga

White Plum Asanga, sometimes termed White Plum Sangha, is a Zen school in the Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi lineage, created by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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Zen Mountain Monastery

Zen Mountain Monastery (or, Doshinji, meaning Temple of the Way of Reality) is a Zen Buddhist monastery and training center on a forested property in the Catskill Mountains in Mount Tremper, New York.

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Zen ranks and hierarchy

Zen institutions have an elaborate system of ranks and hierarchy, which determine one's position in the institution.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Daido_Loori

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