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.
4 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Nyogen Senzaki
Nyogen Senzaki (1876–1958)
Solomon M. Neches
Solomon M. Neches (1891–1954)
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)
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman (1918–1988)
Ali Javan
Ali Javan (1926–2016)
Taizan Maezumi
Taizan Maezumi (1931–1995)
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016)
Bernie Glassman
Bernie Glassman (1939–2018)
Works composed here
- 1953
Buddhism and Zen
- 2001
Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice