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John Daido Loori (1931-2009)
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John Daido Loori
is Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery (ZMM), the founder and leader of the
Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO), and the CEO of Dharma Communications.
He began to practice Zen meditation in 1968, having served in the navy,
worked in the natural products industry, and led arts organizations in New
York State. From 1972 to 1976, he studied with Soen Nakagawa and then with
Taizan Maezumi, founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He received
denkai (priestly transmission) from Maezumi in 1983 and shiho (dharma
transmission) from him in 1986. In 1994, he received Dendokyoshi Certification,
formal recognition by the Japanese Soto school of his status as a foreignborn
Zen master and teacher. In 1997, Loori also received dharma transmission
in the Harada-Yasutani and Inzan lineages of Rinzai Zen, making him
one of three Western dharma-holders in both the Soto and Rinzai schools.
Loori has transmitted the dharma to two students—Bonnie Myotai Treace
Sensei in October 1996 and Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei in July 1997.
In ZMM and the MRO, Loori has created institutions highly respected for
their careful yet creative adaptation of Asian Buddhism to the American context.
In ZMM, he trains and teaches monastics and several thousand lay students
through a network of temples, practice centers, and sitting groups both
in this country and in New Zealand. As CEO of Dharma Communications,
he has established one of the leading vehicles for Buddhist education and outreach
in the United States. He is the author of a dozen books related to Zen
practice, including well-known titles such as Still Point: A Beginner’s Guide to
Zen Meditation and The Eight Gates of Zen: Spiritual Training in an American
Zen Monastery. Dharma Communications also produces Mountain Record, a
Buddhist quarterly, and Buddhist audio-visual materials.
The social services and arts are major elements of study and practice at
ZMM. Community members engage in social work ranging from wilderness
preservation to Buddhist prison missions. Loori continues to teach creative
photography, based on the traditional Zen arts and aesthetics, at colleges and
universities in week-long and month-long workshops. Over the past thirty
years, he has exhibited his photography in more than thirty one-person
shows and some fifty group shows both in the United States and overseas.
His work has been published in Aperture and Time-Life magazines. Loori
and Zen Mountain Monastery have been featured by leading media such as
ABC Nightly News and Newsweek, Tricycle, and Utne Reader magazines; and
in publications and television productions in Russia, Japan, and Korea.
Richard Hughes Seager - Buddhism in America, Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series, 2000. pp. 257-258.
Wikipedia in PDF: John Daido Loori
PDF: Straight Ahead: An Interview with John Daido Loori
Interview by Jeff Zaleski
Books
Photos from Zen Mountain
In loving memory of John Daido Loori Roshi the founder and Abbot of Zen Mt Monastery
Married to Daido in the years before his passing in October, 2009, Rachael Loori Romero captured the daily life at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt Tremper, NY, continuing her pursuit of the extraordinary within the ordinary.
http://www.granitemountainzen.co.uk/index.html
Dharma Lineage
Ōsaka's lineage
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Kuroda's lineage |
Harada-Yasutani's lineage |
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John Daido Loori (1931-2009); Dharma name: 大道 Daidō
