Roshi

Roshi Kipp Ryodo Hawley

Roshi Ryodo entered formal studies at the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1980, working directly with Charlotte Joko Beck and Genpo Merzel Roshi as well as Taizan Maezumi Roshi, the founding Abbot of ZCLA. He received Dharma Transmission from Roshi Egyoku Nakao, in 2007, empowerment as lay preceptor in 2015, and inka shomei in 2019. […]

Rōshi Mark Kizan Shōgen Angyo Bloodgood

Raised in the Episcopal Church, Rōshi Shōgen aspired to become an Episcopal priest in his youth. But in the late 1960s and early '70s, a “subtle feeling” nudged him toward the spiritual teachings of the East. This quiet shift began with Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, and deepened through the writings of Shunryū Suzuki, Philip Kapleau, Huston […]