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Richard Baker (Roshi) Esalen CTR Conference Affiliation(s): general Richard Baker Roshi is Abbot, Head Teacher, and founder of the Dharma Sangha centers in Europe and the United States. In the U.S., he lives at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado; and in Germany, at the Schwarzwald (Buddhist Study Center at Johanneshof in the Black Forest). He is the Dharma Successor of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, the first Zen Master to establish residential and monastic practice for lay people and monks in the West. In 1966, with and for Suzuki-roshi, Baker-roshi co-founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California, the first traditional Zen monastery outside of Asia. From 1968 to 1971, he studied in Japan at Antaiji, Eiheiji, and Daitokuji Zen monasteries. He became Suzuki-roshi’s Dharma Heir in 1969 and was installed by Suzuki-roshi as the second Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971. Baker-roshi subsequently founded the Green Gulch Zen Practice Community and Farm in Marin County in California in 1972. His upcoming book is entitled Original Mind: The Practice of Zen in the West, to be published by Putnam, Riverhead Press.
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