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Richard Baker-roshi
Richard Baker-roshi is
Abbot, Head Teacher, and founder of the
Dharma Sangha centers in Europe and the
United States. In the United States he
lives at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center
in Colorado; and in Germany, at the 'Buddhistisches
Studienzentrum im Johanneshof' (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 laypeople 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. During the '70s, he pioneered a number of businesses related to Zen practice. In 1983, he founded the Dharma Sangha. He is currently finishing a book, Original Mind, the Practice of Zen in the West, to be published by Putnam, Riverhead Press.
Koyo
Welch-roshi
Koyo Welch-roshi is Baker-roshi’s Dharma
heir and Crestone Mountain Zen Center’s
Assistant Abbot.
Koyo-roshi developed an interest in Zen Buddhism
while in high school in Stockton, California in
1960. After a year of residential apprentice training
at the Koko-an Zendo in Hawaii he was accepted
to practice as a layman at Ryutaku-ji in Japan
under Soen Nakagawa-roshi from 1962 to 1964. From
1967 to 1972 he helped to open and develop Tassajara
Zen Mountain Center.
In 1970 he received the Bodhisattva
Vows and Precepts (priest ordination) from Shunryu
Suzuki-roshi. In 1999 he assumed the responsibilities
of Assistant Abbot at Crestone Mountain Zen Center.
Zenki Christian Dillo
Zenki Christian Dillo is the
Director and Assistant Teacher at Crestone Mountain
Zen Center.
Zenki began practicing Zen at
the San Francisco Zen Center in 1996. He has been
Baker-roshi's student since 1997.
From 2000-2003 he lived and practiced at Johanneshof,
Dharma Sangha's Buddhist Study Center in the Black
Forest, Germany. In 2003 he received monk
and priest ordination from Baker-roshi and became
a full-time resident at Crestone Mountain Zen
Center. In 2005 he was Shuso (head monk) during
the annual Crestone Mountain Zen Center practice
period.
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