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Gerry Shishin Wick
Dharma name: 獅心 Shishin
Gerry Shishin Wick is a Zen priest and member of the White Plum Asanga, a Dharma heir of the late Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi. He is President and Spiritual Teacher of Great Mountain Zen Center located in Lafayette, Colorado and is currently President of the White Plum Asanga (an organization of some in the Maezumi lineage). Before this he was an administrator for the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values for several years. Wick holds a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley and has held a variety of secular positions as a journalist, university professor, software developer, and oceanographer. Until 2007 he was Director of electronic publishing for Merriam-Webster.
Wick is currently an adjunct professor at Naropa University and he has authored several books, including The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans (Wisdom, 2006).
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Gerry Shishin Wick is a Soto Zen roshi, author, oceanographer and abbot of Great Mountain Zen Center which he founded in 1996—one of twelve Dharma Successors of the late Taizan Maezumi (receiving Dharma transmission and a Denkai (precept transmission) from him in 1990). He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held a variety of jobs in the scientific community as well as an adjunct teaching position at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He is currently president of White Plum Asanga, an organization which acknowledged him as a roshi in 2000. In 2006, Wick received inka from Bernard Glassman.
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Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi is President and Spiritual Leader of Great Mountain Zen Center. He is a Dharma Successor of Taizan Maezumi Roshi having studied in both major lineages of Zen. He received transmission from Maezumi Roshi in 1990 after 24 years of Zen training under Maezumi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Sochu Suzuki Roshi. He administered the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values for 8 years from 1978 to 1986. He founded the Great Mountain Zen Center in 1996.
Shishin Roshi received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967, has worked as University Professor, science writer, journalist, oceanographer, software developer, and technical manager. He retired as the Director of Electronic Publishing for Merriam-Webster, Inc. in May 2007. He was an adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Naropa University, where he lead frequent classes and retreats. He is the author of books and numerous articles on Buddhism, physics and oceanography.
In January, 2006 he received Inka from Roshi Bernie Glassman in the Zen Peacemaker Order. In May 2007, he was elected President of the White Plum Asanga, the organization of Zen teachers in the lineage of Maezumi Roshi. In 2014 when Shishin Roshi stepped down as President of White Plum Asanga, he was acknowledged as an Elder in the organization.
The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans
Translated by Gerry Shishin Wick,
Wisdom Publications, 2005, 320 pages
Versions of the koans based on Maezumi Taizan's translations, with commentaries by Gerry Shishin Wick
PDF: The great heart way: how to heal your life and find self-fulfillment
by Ilia Shinko Perez & Gerry Shishin Wick
Great Mountain Zen Center, 2006
Dharma Talks
A selection of Shishin Roshi's dharma talks.
Dharma Lineage
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梅庵白純 Baian Hakujun (黒田 Kuroda, Maezumi's father, 1898-1978)
佛心大山 Busshin Taizan (1931-1995) [前角博雄 Maezumi Hakuyū]
梅仙徹玄 Baisen Tetsugen (1939-2018) [Bernard Glassman]
獅心 Shishin [Gerry Wick]
