Sentence examples for zen teacher from inspiring English sources

"He's like a Zen teacher," Storr said.

She began studying seriously with a Zen teacher in 2001 and was ordained in 2010.

He became a monk in 1981 and a Zen teacher in 1990.

Peter Matthiessen, a National Book Award winner, Zen teacher and a founder of The Paris Review, has written a new novel, his publisher said on Tuesday.

Paul Karsten, a board member of the Rinzai-ji Zen Center, said the intense relationship between Zen teacher and student can be trouble.

An unworldly Zen teacher with a touch of very earthly cruelty, there's authority to her screen presence that gives weight to Strange's spiritual journey.

Soon thereafter, the independent "witnessing council" of noted Zen teachers began interviewing 25 current or former students of Mr. Sasaki.

Zen teachers typically assert rather that all of these practices must be performed correctly as authentic expressions of awakening, as exemplified by previous generations of Zen teachers.

This weekend, Zen teachers ordained by Joshu Sasaki, the semiretired abbot of the Rinzai-ji Zen Center in Los Angeles, are holding a retreat to discuss sexual harassment accusations against Mr. Sasaki.

This genealogical ethos confers religious authority on present-day Zen teachers as the legitimate heirs and living representatives of all previous Buddhas and patriarchs.

A council of senior Zen teachers from the Rinzai-ji Zen Centre in Los Angeles, ordained under Sasaki, admitted that they had known of the accusations but had not acted.