About Kurt Kankan Spellmeyer

Kurt Spellmeyer is a Zen teacher and professor in the English Department at Rutgers University.
Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, Asalha Puja 2014

The most prominent American Zen Buddhists

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May
2022
Biography, Zen
was introduced in the United States at the end of the 19th century by Japanese teachers who went to America to serve groups of Japanese immigrants and become acquainted with the American culture. Though its origins are distant, today there are plenty of prominent American Zen .
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Parliament of the World's Religions

Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers from America

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May
2022
Biography, Zen
Although it is difficult to trace the precise moment when America first became aware of as a distinct form of Buddhism, the visit of Soyen Shaku, a Japanese Zen monk, to Chicago during the World Parliament of Religions in 1893 is often pointed to as an event that enhanced the profile of Zen in the Western world. It was during the late 1950s and the early 1960s that the number of Westerners other .
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