Jan Chozen Bays
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Jan Chozen Bays, MD (1945 - ), is a pediatrician and Zen teacher practicing in Oregon. With her husband Laren Hogen Bays, since 1985 she has been a teacher at the Zen Community of Oregon, a Zen center or sangha in Portland, Oregon.[1] Chozen and her husband are also co-founders of the now defunct Larch Mountain Zen Center as well as the Great Vow Zen Monastery of Clatskanie, Oregon, which opened in 2002 and where she is now co-abbot. She was a student of Venerable Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, from whom she is one of twelve students to have received dharma transmission, hers being received in 1983. Since Maezumi Roshi's death in 1995 she has continued her training with Shodo Harada Roshi, an Rinzai Zen teacher.[2][3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ Haught, Nancy. "Karma: Buddhism's most misunderstood concept", Amarillo Globe News, January 11, 2001.
- ^ Kosho Uchiyama, Thomas Wright, Jisho Cary Warner, Shohaku Okumura (2004). Opening the hand of thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861713575.
- ^ Lives of Gratefulness. Lulu Press, Inc.. ISBN 1411632672.
- ^ James William Coleman (2002). The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195152417.
