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Charlotte Joko Beck (b. 1917) is a Zen teacher in the United States and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen. Born in New Jersey in 1917, she studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and worked for some time as a pianist and piano teacher. She married and raised a family of four children, then separated and worked as a teacher, secretary, and assistant in a university department. She began Zen practice only in her 40s with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in Los Angeles, and later with Yasutani Roshi and Soen Roshi. She commuted for years from San Diego to the Zen Centre of Los Angeles. Having received Dharma transmission from Taizan Maezumi Roshi, she founded the Ordinary Mind School of Zen and opened the San Diego Zen Center in 1983, serving as its head teacher until July of 2006. She now lives in Prescott, Arizona, where she teaches part-time.
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An account of Joko Beck's unique role and influence on the development of Zen in America can be found in Zen Master Who? by James Ishmael Ford, Wisdom Publications, Boston 2006.
An in-depth interview with Charlotte Joko Beck appears in Meetings With Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by Lenore Friedman, Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1987. ISBN 087773366X. A revised and updated version of the book came out in 2000. ISBN 1570624747.
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