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Tensho David Schneider (1951-)
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Born in 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky, Tensho David Schneider was the first child of Marc, a Jew and engineer and Georgia, his southern Baptist sociologist mother. David rapidly acquired three sisters, the rudiments of a standard boomer education, and a bi-religious, Southern upbringing, involving. Saturday School and Sunday School. He grew up in Pittsburgh, PA .
He began to practice Zen meditation with a local group at Reed College, in Portland, OR and attended sesshins with Joshu Sasaki Roshi in 1970 and 71. In January, 1971, he met Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and he says, that did it. In April of the same year, he saw Suzuki Roshi and Trungpa Rinpoche together at the San Francisco Zen Center, and that really did it
David dropped out of Reed College to move into Zen Center. He took up studies under Richard Baker Roshi, and in 1977, he received ordination as unsui or “cloud-water person.” He did many academic and practical jobs as part of community life there, which ran from 1972-85. The 1983 scandal at SF Zen Center led to the departure of Baker Roshi. In 1984, in the formal shuso ceremony, David was ordained as a head monk at the Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.
In 1985 David was formally accepted by Trungpa Rinpoche as a student. He attended Vajradhatu Seminary in 1986 and staffed Seminary again in 1988.
David wrote Street Zen, a biography of Issan Dorsey, published in 1993 by Shambhala Publications, and again in 2000 by Marlowe. Street Zen won several prizes, included “Best Buddhist Book of the Year” in 1993. In 1994 he co-edited with Kazuaki Tanahashi a collection of zen stories, titled Essential Zen.
In 1995, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche appointed David Director of Shambhala Europe by, a position he held until 2003. David now works for Vajradhatu Publications Europe; he continues as well to pursue writing projects – currently, a biography of Beat poet and zen master Zenshin Philip Whalen – as well as calligraphy exhibitions. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche appointed David to the post of acharya in 1996.
He lives in Cologne, Germany.
Reed oral history interview with David Schneider (PDF)
He is coeditor with Kazuaki Tanahashi of Essential Zen, 1995
and The Teacup & the Skullcup: Chogyam Trungpa on Zen and Tantra. 2007.
Author of Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen, 2015
https://thenewblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2020/10/15/in-close-proximity-part-one/
https://thenewblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/in-close-proximity-part-two/
https://thenewblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/philip-whalen-beset-by-irony/and Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey. 1993, 2000.
https://tricycle.org/magazine/street-zen/
https://en.calameo.com/read/000039257475a81e80987
https://archive.org/details/streetzenlifewor0000schnand Goods: Short Stories, 2021.
davidschneider216@gmail.com
PDFs
It has come to may attention that my published books can be found on your website, in PDF format. I am going to presume you had positive motivations for posting them there, but I must insist that you take them down immediately. PDF's posted in this way—without permission from me or from my publishers—are illegal. It also feels disrespectful of the publishers and me, since it robs us the very modest amounts of money we might make through legitimate sales of the books.
You would be welcome to keep the list of my books on your site, together with links taking a person to the publishers' websites, or other sites where the books can be purchased legally.
If you become aware of potential readers of my books who are in financial difficulties, you could give them my contact information, and if I can donate a text, I will be happy to do so.
In the meantime, I must reiterate my request for you to immediately remove the PDFs of my books and any associated links. David Schneider
