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The '''Pacific Zen Institute''' ('''PZI'''), is a [[Zen Buddhist]] practice center in [[Santa Rosa, California]]. Established in 1999, it has several affiliate centers in the lineage of John Tarrant, a dharma heir of [[Robert Baker Aitken]], and formerly of the [[Sanbo Kyodan]] school of Zen.<ref name="ford">Ford, 178-179</ref>
The '''Pacific Zen Institute''' ('''PZI'''), is a [[Zen Buddhist]] practice center in [[Santa Rosa, California]]. Established in 1999, it has several affiliate centers in the lineage of John Tarrant, a dharma heir of [[Robert Baker Aitken]], and formerly of the [[Sanbo Kyodan]] school of Zen.{{sfn|Ford|2006|pp=178–179}}


==History==
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Students and teachers at PZI work with [[Zen koan]] as the primary tool for transforming the mind and finding freedom, According to the PZI Web Site,
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PZI was previously known as the California Diamond [[Sangha]] and was affiliated with [[Robert Baker Aitken]]'s original [[Diamond Sangha]] in Hawaii. According to writer Michelle Spuler:{{sfn|Spuler|2003|pp=xiv, 6}}
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{{quote|...in 1999 a decision was made for his organization, the California Diamond Sangha, and its affiliated groups, to formally separate from the Diamond Sangha and start a new organization, the Pacific Zen Institute.}}
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That transition happened, in part, due to accusations by the Diamond Sangha Teachers' Circle. In the March–February 2000 issue of the Sydney Zen Centre newsletter, the Diamond Sangha Teachers' Circle publicized an open letter to Tarrant with their concerns regarding "numerous, unsolicited complaints of misconduct", which they said they had received about him in the preceding three years. The letter was signed by Tarrant's former teacher Aitken and ten other teachers.<ref name="Sydney Zen Centre Newsletter">{{cite journal |editor1-last=McLean |editor1-first=Chris |title=Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle open letter to John Tarrant |journal=Sydney Zen Centre Newsletter |date=February–March 2000 |pages=4–5 |ref=http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/DOCS/szc-newsletter-feb-mar-2000.pdf}}</ref>

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Students and teachers at PZI work with [[Zen koan]] as the primary tool for transforming the mind and finding freedom. According to the PZI website:
{{quote|Zen koans are a key part of what we do in PZI, although there is no requirement that anyone work with koans to practice with PZI. For a long time PZI has been exploring different ways of working with koans to expand the ways that koans can be helpful.<ref name="PZI_Koans">{{cite web| url=https://pacificzen.org/start/koans/ | title=PZI Koans |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref>}}
{{quote|Zen koans are a key part of what we do in PZI, although there is no requirement that anyone work with koans to practice with PZI. For a long time PZI has been exploring different ways of working with koans to expand the ways that koans can be helpful.<ref name="PZI_Koans">{{cite web| url=https://pacificzen.org/start/koans/ | title=PZI Koans |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref>}}


The Pacific Zen Institute offers multi-day retreats in several California Locations including [[Santa Rosa, California]], and [[Bolinas, California]] as well as one-day workshops in the San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Oakland and Berkeley areas.<ref name="retreats">{{cite web| url=https://pacificzen.org/pzi-events/ongoing-events-and-center-schedules/ | title= PZI Retreats |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref>
The Pacific Zen Institute offers multi-day retreats in several California locations including [[Santa Rosa, California]], and [[Bolinas, California]] as well as one-day workshops in the San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Oakland and Berkeley areas.<ref name="retreats">{{cite web| url=https://pacificzen.org/pzi-events/ongoing-events-and-center-schedules/ | title= PZI Retreats |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref>


==Affiliates==
==Affiliates==
* Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center<ref name="santarosazen">{{cite web| url=http://www.santarosazen.org// | title=PZI Affiliates: Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[Santa Rosa, Ca]])
* Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center<ref name="santarosazen">{{cite web| url=http://www.santarosazen.org// | title=PZI Affiliates: Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[Santa Rosa, CA]])
*Desert Lotus Zen Sangha<ref name="desertlotuszen">{{cite web| url=http://www.desertlotuszen.org/ | title=PZI Affiliates: Desert Lotus Zen |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[Chandler, AZ]])
*Desert Lotus Zen Sangha<ref name="desertlotuszen">{{cite web| url=http://www.desertlotuszen.org/ | title=PZI Affiliates: Desert Lotus Zen |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[Chandler, AZ]])
*London Zen Centre<ref name="PZI_London">{{cite web| url=http://pacificzen.org/locations/london-zen-centre/ | title=PZI Affiliates: London Zen Center |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[London ON]])
*London Zen Centre<ref name="PZI_London">{{cite web| url=http://pacificzen.org/locations/london-zen-centre/ | title=PZI Affiliates: London Zen Center |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[London ON]])
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*Santa Barbara Group<ref name="SantaBarbara">{{cite web| url=http://www.pacificzen.org/locations/alllocations/#santabarbara | title=PZI Affiliates: Santa Barbara Group |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[Santa Barbara, California]])
*Santa Barbara Group<ref name="SantaBarbara">{{cite web| url=http://www.pacificzen.org/locations/alllocations/#santabarbara | title=PZI Affiliates: Santa Barbara Group |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> (in [[Santa Barbara, California]])


==John Tarrant Biography==
==Tarrant biography==


[[James Ishmael Ford]] says of Tarrant,
[[James Ishmael Ford]] says of Tarrant,
{{quote|He is known for pushing the boundaries of Zen institutions, introducing and dropping liturgical experiments—such as allowing Zen sutras to be set to Cajun tunes or passing out grapes during the service—just to see what happens. Today the Pacific Zen Institute is marked by its willingness to innovate and creatively explore the range of Zen disciplines."<ref name="ford"/>}}
{{quote|He is known for pushing the boundaries of Zen institutions, introducing and dropping liturgical experiments—such as allowing Zen sutras to be set to Cajun tunes or passing out grapes during the service—just to see what happens. Today the Pacific Zen Institute is marked by its willingness to innovate and creatively explore the range of Zen disciplines.{{sfn|Ford|2006|pp=178–179}}}}


John Tarrant<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio">{{cite web| url=http://sweepingzen.com/john-tarrant-bio/ | title=John Tarrant Biography |publisher=Sweeping Zen }}</ref> (born 1949) is a Western Zen teacher who explores koans as a way to discover freedom and unexpected openings.<ref name="PZI_Koans"/> Tarrant is the founder and director of the Pacific Zen Institute (PZI). PZI has large centers in California, Arizona, and Canada as well as "Small Groups" in many states throughout America. Tarrant teaches and writes about the transformation of consciousness through the use of the [[Zen koan]] and trains koan meditation teachers. John grew up in the [[City of Launceston]] on [[Bass Strait]].
John Tarrant<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio">{{cite web| url=http://sweepingzen.com/john-tarrant-bio/ | title=John Tarrant Biography |publisher=Sweeping Zen }}</ref> (born 1949) is a Western Zen teacher who explores koans as a way to discover freedom and unexpected openings.<ref name="PZI_Koans"/> Tarrant is the founder and director of the Pacific Zen Institute (PZI). PZI has large centers in California, Arizona, and Canada as well as "small groups" in many states throughout America. Tarrant teaches and writes about the transformation of consciousness through the use of the [[Zen koan]] and trains koan meditation teachers. Tarrant grew up in the [[City of Launceston]] on [[Bass Strait]].


Tarrant was born in Australia and came from an old Tasmanian family. He was influenced early in his life by English literature, especially poetry, the Latin Mass, the Tasmanian bush, and [[Australian Aboriginal culture]]. Tarrant worked at many jobs, ranging from working as a laborer in an open-pit mine, to commercial fishing the Great Barrier Reef. Eventually he also worked as a lobbyist for the [[Australian Aboriginal land rights]] movement. Tarrant attended the University of Tasmania and then the Australian National University,<ref name="john-tarrant">*{{cite web| url=https://pacificzen.org/teachers-2/john-tarrant/ | title=John Tarrant DIRECTOR OF PACIFIC ZEN INSTITUTE |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> where he earned a degree in Human Sciences and English Literature. He later earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. He wrote his doctoral thesis on “The Design of Enlightenment in Koan Zen”<ref name="thesis">*{{cite book |last= Tarrant |first=John |authorlink= John Tarrant (Zen Buddhist) |title= The design of enlightenment in koan Zen |year= 1987 |url= http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3282860| id =3282860 }}</ref> and for twenty years was a Jungian psychotherapist working on dream analysis at the same time as he developed his teaching of koans.
Tarrant was born in Australia and came from an old Tasmanian family. He was influenced early in his life by English literature, especially poetry, the [[Latin Mass]], the Tasmanian bush, and [[Australian Aboriginal culture]]. Tarrant worked at many jobs, ranging from laboring in an open-pit mine, to commercial fishing the [[Great Barrier Reef]]. Eventually he also worked as a lobbyist for the [[Australian Aboriginal land rights]] movement. Tarrant attended the [[University of Tasmania]] and then the [[Australian National University]],<ref name="john-tarrant">{{cite web| url=https://pacificzen.org/teachers-2/john-tarrant/ | title=John Tarrant Director of Pacific Zen Institute |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref> where he earned a degree in Human Sciences and English Literature. He later earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from [[Saybrook University|Saybrook Institute]] in San Francisco. He wrote his doctoral thesis on "The Design of Enlightenment in Koan Zen"<ref name="thesis">{{cite book |last= Tarrant |first=John |authorlink= |title= The design of enlightenment in koan Zen |year= 1987 |url= http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3282860| id =3282860 }}</ref> and for twenty years was a Jungian psychotherapist working on dream analysis at the same time as he developed his teaching of koans.


Tarrant’s first Buddhist studies, in the early 1970s, were with Tibetan Lamas who visited Australia. He discovered koans (stories sometimes given to Zen practitioners to hasten and refine insight and enlightenment) and, lacking any teachers in the southern hemisphere, worked on them by himself for a number of years. Later in the United States he passed his first koans with Korean teacher [[Seung Sahn]]. He studied with [[Robert Baker Aitken]] in Hawaii for 9 years and was Aitken’s first [[dharma heir]]. According to Tricycle Magazine, a Buddhist quarterly, Aitken later "disowned John Tarrant for what Aitken considered credible allegations of sexual indiscretions with students, and also criticized Tarrant's teaching style and conduct as a therapist." <ref>https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/sex-sangha-apparently-we-still-havent-had-enough/</ref>He also did advanced koan work with [[Koun Yamada]]. He began teaching in 1983. In 1987 he founded the organization which evolved into the Pacific Zen Institute (PZI) in Santa Rosa, California, devoted to koan work and the arts.<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio" />
Tarrant's first Buddhist studies, in the early 1970s, were with Tibetan Lamas who visited Australia. He discovered koans (stories sometimes given to Zen practitioners to hasten and refine insight and enlightenment) and, lacking any teachers in the Southern Hemisphere, worked on them by himself for a number of years. Later in the United States he passed his first koans with Korean teacher [[Seung Sahn]]. He studied with [[Robert Baker Aitken]] in Hawaii for 9 years and was Aitken’s first [[dharma heir]]. He also did advanced koan work with [[Koun Yamada]]. He began teaching in 1983. In 1987 he founded the organization that evolved into the Pacific Zen Institute (PZI) in Santa Rosa, California, devoted to koan work and the arts.<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio" />


As reported in ''[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]]'', a Buddhist quarterly, Aitken later "disowned John Tarrant for what Aitken considered credible allegations of sexual indiscretions with students, and also criticized Tarrant's teaching style and conduct as a therapist."<ref>{{cite journal| url= https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/sex-sangha-apparently-we-still-havent-had-enough/ | title=Sex in the Sangha: Apparently, we still haven’t had enough | date=February 21, 2011 |journal= [[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]] }}</ref> Following a meeting of a subset of the Diamond [[Sangha]] Teachers' Circle (DSTC) in Hawaii, eleven teachers signed a letter commenting on the separation of Tarrant from the Diamond Sangha.<ref name="Sydney Zen Centre Newsletter" /> The PZI asserted that the break was also due in part to Tarrant's experimental and unorthodox approach to koan work and differences in the two organization's visions of Western Zen.{{cn}}
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PZI was previously known as the California Diamond Sangha and was affiliated with Robert Baker Aitken's original [[Diamond Sangha]] in Hawaii. According to writer Michelle Spuler,
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{{quote|...in 1999 a decision was made for his organization, the California Diamond Sangha, and its affiliated groups, to formally separate from the [[Diamond Sangha]] and start a new organization, the Pacific Zen Institute.<ref>Spuler, xiv; 6</ref>}}
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That transition happened, in part, due to accusations by the Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle. In the March – February 2000 Sydney Zen Centre newsletter, the Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle publicized an [http://sweepingzen.com/john-tarrant-bio/ open letter]<ref>http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/DOCS/szc-newsletter-feb-mar-2000.pdf</ref> to John Tarrant with their concerns regarding “numerous, unsolicited complaints of misconduct” which they say they had received about him in the preceding three years. The letter was signed by Tarrant's former teacher Robert Baker Aitken, among others.<ref>http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/DOCS/szc-newsletter-feb-mar-2000.pdf</ref> The PZI asserted that the break was also due in part to Tarrant's experimental and unorthodox approach to Koan work and differences in the two organization's visions of Western Zen.


John Tarrant's reputation as a writer and poet grew with contributions to many publications including [[The Paris Review]], [[Threepenny Review]] and the books, Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry and What Book? Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop. Tarrant's own books include The Light Inside the Dark: Zen Soul & The Spiritual Life (HarperCollins)—a map of the spiritual journey including the dark bits—and Bring Me the Rhinoceros—& Other Zen Koans To Bring You Joy (Harmony), which is a sampler of koans and a western approach to them.<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio" />
Tarrant's reputation as a writer and poet grew with contributions to many publications including [[The Paris Review]], [[Threepenny Review]] and the books, Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry and What Book? Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop. Tarrant's own books include The Light Inside the Dark: Zen Soul & The Spiritual Life (HarperCollins)—a map of the spiritual journey including the dark bits—and Bring Me the Rhinoceros—& Other Zen Koans To Bring You Joy (Harmony), which is a sampler of koans and a western approach to them.<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio" />


Although his training was originally in what was essentially still the medieval koan system, Tarrant has spent many years exploring how koans are pertinent to people living in the modern world. He holds koan seminars where people of all levels of experience are welcomed and a collaborative culture is encouraged. Pacific Zen Institute’s program of Koan small groups and salons allow people to study koans together in an ongoing way. He teaches koans as doorways available to anyone, not only for advanced practitioners.<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio" />
Although his training was originally in what was essentially still the medieval koan system, Tarrant has spent many years exploring how koans are pertinent to people living in the modern world. He holds koan seminars where people of all levels of experience are welcomed and a collaborative culture is encouraged. Pacific Zen Institute’s program of Koan small groups and salons allow people to study koans together in an ongoing way. He teaches koans as doorways available to anyone, not only for advanced practitioners.<ref name="John-Tarrant-Bio" />
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PZI’s projects include creating new English translations of some of the elements of the sutra collection as well the evolution of musical settings of many parts of the chanted liturgy. Working with the Zen teacher and translator, Joan Sutherland, and Richie Domingue, then leader of the Zydeco Band “Gator Beat”, Tarrant collaborated in developing what is probably the first sung Zen liturgy in an American idiom.
PZI’s projects include creating new English translations of some of the elements of the sutra collection as well the evolution of musical settings of many parts of the chanted liturgy. Working with the Zen teacher and translator, Joan Sutherland, and Richie Domingue, then leader of the Zydeco Band “Gator Beat”, Tarrant collaborated in developing what is probably the first sung Zen liturgy in an American idiom.


Among Tarrant’s successors and collaborators through Pacific Zen Institute include the Zen master Joan Sutherland, head of the "Open Source" Zen network, Susan Murphy, a film maker and Zen master based in Sydney, Australia, David Weinstein in Northern California, and [[James Ishmael Ford]], founder and senior teacher of the "Boundless Way Zen" network.<ref name="ford"/>
Among Tarrant’s successors and collaborators through Pacific Zen Institute include the Zen master Joan Sutherland, head of the "Open Source" Zen network, Susan Murphy, a film maker and Zen master based in Sydney, Australia, David Weinstein in Northern California, and [[James Ishmael Ford]], founder and senior teacher of the "Boundless Way Zen" network.{{sfn|Ford|2006|pp=178–179}}


As part of his interest in meditation in action Tarrant has taught in alternative energy corporations and medical and health care organizations. He worked with the startup of Dr. Andrew Weil’s Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Tarrant designed and taught the part of the curriculum in which the art of medicine was approached as being based in the arts of attention including working with the executive team at Duke Integrative Medicine with Dr. Tracy Gaudet.
As part of his interest in meditation in action Tarrant has taught in alternative energy corporations and medical and health care organizations. He worked with the startup of Dr. Andrew Weil’s Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Tarrant designed and taught the part of the curriculum in which the art of medicine was approached as being based in the arts of attention including working with the executive team at Duke Integrative Medicine with Dr. Tracy Gaudet.


==John Tarrant lineage==
==Tarrant lineage==
John Tarrant has appointed several teachers, some of whom have also appointed teachers:<ref name="Yasutani-lineage">[http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/HaradaYasutani.html Sanbo Kyodan: Harada-Yasutani School of Zen Buddhism and its Teachers]</ref>
Tarrant has appointed several teachers, some of whom have also appointed teachers:<ref name="Yasutani-lineage">[http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/HaradaYasutani.html Sanbo Kyodan: Harada-Yasutani School of Zen Buddhism and its Teachers]</ref>
#Atwill, Allison, Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS">{{cite web| url=http://www.pacificzen.org/teachers-2/all-teachers/ | title=PZI Affiliates: PZI Teachers |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref>
#Atwill, Allison, Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS">{{cite web| url=http://www.pacificzen.org/teachers-2/all-teachers/ | title=PZI Affiliates: PZI Teachers |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}</ref>
# Barzaghi, Subhana Gyo Shin, Myo-Un-An Roshi (b. 1954). Also received Transmission from Robert Aitken.
# Barzaghi, Subhana Gyo Shin, Myo-Un-An Roshi (born 1954); also received Transmission from Robert Aitken
## Burke, Sexton Roshi (b. 1944-)
## Burke, Sexton Roshi (born 1944)
## Coote, Gillian Jitsu Mu Roshi (b. 1944)
## Coote, Gillian Jitsu Mu Roshi (born 1944)
## Davison, Ellen. Assistant teacher
## Davison, Ellen, assistant teacher
## Gluek, Maggie Seiryu Roshi.
## Gluek, Maggie Seiryu Roshi
## Maloney, Paul Roshi (b. 1939-)
## Maloney, Paul Roshi (born 1939)
## Marett, Allan. Apprentice Teacher
## Marett, Allan, apprentice Teacher
## Rankin, Wayne. Apprentice Teacher
## Rankin, Wayne, apprentice Teacher
# Bolleter, Ross Roshi (b. 1946-). Also appointed by Robert Aitken.
# Bolleter, Ross Roshi (born 1946); also appointed by Robert Aitken
#Boughton, Rachel, Roshi.<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
#Boughton, Rachel, Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
# [[James Ishmael Ford]] (b. 1948). Also a Soto teacher appointed by [[Jiyu Kennett]] Roshi.
# [[James Ishmael Ford]] (born 1948); also a Soto teacher appointed by [[Jiyu Kennett]] Roshi
## [[Melissa Myozen Blacker|Blacker, Melissa Keido Myozen Roshi]] (b. 1954).
## [[Melissa Myozen Blacker|Blacker, Melissa Keido Myozen Roshi]] (born 1954)
#Joseph, Jon, Roshi.<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
#Joseph, Jon, Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
# Grant, Steven, Roshi.<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/> (b. 1962- )
# Grant, Steven, Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/> (born 1962)
#Gaudry, Guy, Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
#Gaudry, Guy, Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
## Ross, Lanny Sevan Keido Sei'an Sensei (b. 1951). Also holds the Dharma Transmission in the [[Philip Kapleau]] lineage
## Ross, Lanny Sevan Keido Sei'an Sensei (born 1951); also holds the Dharma Transmission in the [[Philip Kapleau]] lineage
# Mansfield-Howlett, Rachel, Roshi, at Santa Rosa City Zen, US.
# Mansfield-Howlett, Rachel, Roshi, at Santa Rosa City Zen, US
# Murphy, Susan Myo Sei Ryu'un An Roshi (b. 1950-). Also received Transmission from Ross Bolleter.
# Murphy, Susan Myo Sei Ryu'un An Roshi (born 1950); also received Transmission from Ross Bolleter
# Saint, Deborah,<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/> Sensei.
# Saint, Deborah,<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/> Sensei
# [[Joan Iten Sutherland|Sutherland, Joan Roshi]] (b. 1954).<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
# [[Joan Iten Sutherland|Sutherland, Joan Roshi]] (born 1954)<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
## Bender, Sarah Masland Sensei (b. 1948).
## Bender, Sarah Masland Sensei (born 1948)
## Palmer, Andrew Sensei (b. 1971).
## Palmer, Andrew Sensei (born 1971)
## Nathanson, Tenney Sensei (b. 1946)
## Nathanson, Tenney Sensei (born 1946)
# Terragno, Danièl Ki-Nay (b. 1947-) Roshi.
# Terragno, Danièl Ki-Nay (born 1947), Roshi
## Parekh, Antoinette Kenjo Shin (b. 1959) Apprentice teacher.
## Parekh, Antoinette Kenjo Shin (born 1959), apprentice teacher
# Twentyman, Craig. Independent teacher
# Twentyman, Craig, Independent teacher
# Weinstein, David Onryu Ko'un, (b. 1949-) Roshi.<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>
# Weinstein, David Onryu Ko'un, (born 1949) Roshi<ref name="PZI_TEACHERS"/>


==See also==
==See also==
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==Sources==
==Sources==
*{{cite book| last =Ford| first =James Ishmael| authorlink =James Ishmael Ford| coauthors =| title =Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen| publisher =Wisdom Publications| year =2006| location =| pages =| url =https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame| doi =| id =| isbn =0-86171-509-8| url-access =registration}}
*{{cite book | ref=harv | last =Ford| first =James Ishmael| authorlink =James Ishmael Ford| coauthors =| title =Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen| publisher =Wisdom Publications| year =2006| location =| pages =| url =https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame| doi =| id =| isbn =0-86171-509-8| url-access =registration}}
*{{cite book| last =Spuler| first =Michelle| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Developments in Australian Buddhism: Facets of the Diamond| publisher =Routledge| year =2003| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49952207&referer=brief_results| doi =| id = | isbn = 0-7007-1582-7}}
*{{cite book | ref=harv | last =Spuler| first =Michelle| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Developments in Australian Buddhism: Facets of the Diamond| publisher =Routledge| year =2003| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49952207&referer=brief_results| doi =| id = | isbn = 0-7007-1582-7}}
*{{cite web| url=http://sweepingzen.com/john-tarrant-bio/ | title=John Tarrant Biography |publisher=Sweeping Zen }}
*{{cite web| url=http://sweepingzen.com/john-tarrant-bio/ | title=John Tarrant Biography |publisher=Sweeping Zen }}
*{{cite web| url=http://pacificzen.org/teachers-2/john-tarrant/ | title=John Tarrant DIRECTOR OF PACIFIC ZEN INSTITUTE |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}
*{{cite web| url=http://pacificzen.org/teachers-2/john-tarrant/ | title=John Tarrant DIRECTOR OF PACIFIC ZEN INSTITUTE |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}
*{{cite book| last =Tarrant| first =John |authorlink= John Tarrant (Zen Buddhist) |title= The design of enlightenment in koan Zen |year=1987 |url= http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3282860| id =3282860 }}
*{{cite book| last =Tarrant| first =John |authorlink= |title= The design of enlightenment in koan Zen |year=1987 |url= http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3282860| id =3282860 }}
*{{cite web| url=http://www.desertlotuszen.org/ | title=PZI Affiliates: Desert Lotus Zen |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}
*{{cite web| url=http://www.desertlotuszen.org/ | title=PZI Affiliates: Desert Lotus Zen |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}
*{{cite web| url=http://www.oaklandzen.org/ | title=PZI Affiliates: Rockridge Meditation Community |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}
*{{cite web| url=http://www.oaklandzen.org/ | title=PZI Affiliates: Rockridge Meditation Community |publisher=Pacific Zen Institute }}

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The Pacific Zen Institute (PZI), is a Zen Buddhist practice center in Santa Rosa, California. Established in 1999, it has several affiliate centers in the lineage of John Tarrant, a dharma heir of Robert Baker Aitken, and formerly of the Sanbo Kyodan school of Zen.[1]

History

PZI was previously known as the California Diamond Sangha and was affiliated with Robert Baker Aitken's original Diamond Sangha in Hawaii. According to writer Michelle Spuler:[2]

...in 1999 a decision was made for his organization, the California Diamond Sangha, and its affiliated groups, to formally separate from the Diamond Sangha and start a new organization, the Pacific Zen Institute.

That transition happened, in part, due to accusations by the Diamond Sangha Teachers' Circle. In the March–February 2000 issue of the Sydney Zen Centre newsletter, the Diamond Sangha Teachers' Circle publicized an open letter to Tarrant with their concerns regarding "numerous, unsolicited complaints of misconduct", which they said they had received about him in the preceding three years. The letter was signed by Tarrant's former teacher Aitken and ten other teachers.[3]

Students and teachers at PZI work with Zen koan as the primary tool for transforming the mind and finding freedom. According to the PZI website:

Zen koans are a key part of what we do in PZI, although there is no requirement that anyone work with koans to practice with PZI. For a long time PZI has been exploring different ways of working with koans to expand the ways that koans can be helpful.[4]

The Pacific Zen Institute offers multi-day retreats in several California locations including Santa Rosa, California, and Bolinas, California as well as one-day workshops in the San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Oakland and Berkeley areas.[5]

Affiliates

Tarrant biography

James Ishmael Ford says of Tarrant,

He is known for pushing the boundaries of Zen institutions, introducing and dropping liturgical experiments—such as allowing Zen sutras to be set to Cajun tunes or passing out grapes during the service—just to see what happens. Today the Pacific Zen Institute is marked by its willingness to innovate and creatively explore the range of Zen disciplines.[1]

John Tarrant[12] (born 1949) is a Western Zen teacher who explores koans as a way to discover freedom and unexpected openings.[4] Tarrant is the founder and director of the Pacific Zen Institute (PZI). PZI has large centers in California, Arizona, and Canada as well as "small groups" in many states throughout America. Tarrant teaches and writes about the transformation of consciousness through the use of the Zen koan and trains koan meditation teachers. Tarrant grew up in the City of Launceston on Bass Strait.

Tarrant was born in Australia and came from an old Tasmanian family. He was influenced early in his life by English literature, especially poetry, the Latin Mass, the Tasmanian bush, and Australian Aboriginal culture. Tarrant worked at many jobs, ranging from laboring in an open-pit mine, to commercial fishing the Great Barrier Reef. Eventually he also worked as a lobbyist for the Australian Aboriginal land rights movement. Tarrant attended the University of Tasmania and then the Australian National University,[13] where he earned a degree in Human Sciences and English Literature. He later earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. He wrote his doctoral thesis on "The Design of Enlightenment in Koan Zen"[14] and for twenty years was a Jungian psychotherapist working on dream analysis at the same time as he developed his teaching of koans.

Tarrant's first Buddhist studies, in the early 1970s, were with Tibetan Lamas who visited Australia. He discovered koans (stories sometimes given to Zen practitioners to hasten and refine insight and enlightenment) and, lacking any teachers in the Southern Hemisphere, worked on them by himself for a number of years. Later in the United States he passed his first koans with Korean teacher Seung Sahn. He studied with Robert Baker Aitken in Hawaii for 9 years and was Aitken’s first dharma heir. He also did advanced koan work with Koun Yamada. He began teaching in 1983. In 1987 he founded the organization that evolved into the Pacific Zen Institute (PZI) in Santa Rosa, California, devoted to koan work and the arts.[12]

As reported in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, a Buddhist quarterly, Aitken later "disowned John Tarrant for what Aitken considered credible allegations of sexual indiscretions with students, and also criticized Tarrant's teaching style and conduct as a therapist."[15] Following a meeting of a subset of the Diamond Sangha Teachers' Circle (DSTC) in Hawaii, eleven teachers signed a letter commenting on the separation of Tarrant from the Diamond Sangha.[3] The PZI asserted that the break was also due in part to Tarrant's experimental and unorthodox approach to koan work and differences in the two organization's visions of Western Zen.[citation needed]

Tarrant's reputation as a writer and poet grew with contributions to many publications including The Paris Review, Threepenny Review and the books, Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry and What Book? Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop. Tarrant's own books include The Light Inside the Dark: Zen Soul & The Spiritual Life (HarperCollins)—a map of the spiritual journey including the dark bits—and Bring Me the Rhinoceros—& Other Zen Koans To Bring You Joy (Harmony), which is a sampler of koans and a western approach to them.[12]

Although his training was originally in what was essentially still the medieval koan system, Tarrant has spent many years exploring how koans are pertinent to people living in the modern world. He holds koan seminars where people of all levels of experience are welcomed and a collaborative culture is encouraged. Pacific Zen Institute’s program of Koan small groups and salons allow people to study koans together in an ongoing way. He teaches koans as doorways available to anyone, not only for advanced practitioners.[12]

PZI’s projects include creating new English translations of some of the elements of the sutra collection as well the evolution of musical settings of many parts of the chanted liturgy. Working with the Zen teacher and translator, Joan Sutherland, and Richie Domingue, then leader of the Zydeco Band “Gator Beat”, Tarrant collaborated in developing what is probably the first sung Zen liturgy in an American idiom.

Among Tarrant’s successors and collaborators through Pacific Zen Institute include the Zen master Joan Sutherland, head of the "Open Source" Zen network, Susan Murphy, a film maker and Zen master based in Sydney, Australia, David Weinstein in Northern California, and James Ishmael Ford, founder and senior teacher of the "Boundless Way Zen" network.[1]

As part of his interest in meditation in action Tarrant has taught in alternative energy corporations and medical and health care organizations. He worked with the startup of Dr. Andrew Weil’s Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Tarrant designed and taught the part of the curriculum in which the art of medicine was approached as being based in the arts of attention including working with the executive team at Duke Integrative Medicine with Dr. Tracy Gaudet.

Tarrant lineage

Tarrant has appointed several teachers, some of whom have also appointed teachers:[16]

  1. Atwill, Allison, Roshi[17]
  2. Barzaghi, Subhana Gyo Shin, Myo-Un-An Roshi (born 1954); also received Transmission from Robert Aitken
    1. Burke, Sexton Roshi (born 1944)
    2. Coote, Gillian Jitsu Mu Roshi (born 1944)
    3. Davison, Ellen, assistant teacher
    4. Gluek, Maggie Seiryu Roshi
    5. Maloney, Paul Roshi (born 1939)
    6. Marett, Allan, apprentice Teacher
    7. Rankin, Wayne, apprentice Teacher
  3. Bolleter, Ross Roshi (born 1946); also appointed by Robert Aitken
  4. Boughton, Rachel, Roshi[17]
  5. James Ishmael Ford (born 1948); also a Soto teacher appointed by Jiyu Kennett Roshi
    1. Blacker, Melissa Keido Myozen Roshi (born 1954)
  6. Joseph, Jon, Roshi[17]
  7. Grant, Steven, Roshi[17] (born 1962)
  8. Gaudry, Guy, Roshi[17]
    1. Ross, Lanny Sevan Keido Sei'an Sensei (born 1951); also holds the Dharma Transmission in the Philip Kapleau lineage
  9. Mansfield-Howlett, Rachel, Roshi, at Santa Rosa City Zen, US
  10. Murphy, Susan Myo Sei Ryu'un An Roshi (born 1950); also received Transmission from Ross Bolleter
  11. Saint, Deborah,[17] Sensei
  12. Sutherland, Joan Roshi (born 1954)[17]
    1. Bender, Sarah Masland Sensei (born 1948)
    2. Palmer, Andrew Sensei (born 1971)
    3. Nathanson, Tenney Sensei (born 1946)
  13. Terragno, Danièl Ki-Nay (born 1947), Roshi
    1. Parekh, Antoinette Kenjo Shin (born 1959), apprentice teacher
  14. Twentyman, Craig, Independent teacher
  15. Weinstein, David Onryu Ko'un, (born 1949) Roshi[17]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Ford 2006, pp. 178–179.
  2. ^ Spuler 2003, pp. xiv, 6.
  3. ^ a b McLean, Chris, ed. (February–March 2000). "Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle open letter to John Tarrant". Sydney Zen Centre Newsletter: 4–5. {{cite journal}}: External link in |ref= (help)
  4. ^ a b "PZI Koans". Pacific Zen Institute.
  5. ^ "PZI Retreats". Pacific Zen Institute.
  6. ^ "PZI Affiliates: Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center". Pacific Zen Institute.
  7. ^ "PZI Affiliates: Desert Lotus Zen". Pacific Zen Institute.
  8. ^ "PZI Affiliates: London Zen Center". Pacific Zen Institute.
  9. ^ "PZI Affiliates: Rockridge Meditation Community". Pacific Zen Institute.
  10. ^ "PZI Affiliates: San Francisco Wind-In-Grass". Pacific Zen Institute.
  11. ^ "PZI Affiliates: Santa Barbara Group". Pacific Zen Institute.
  12. ^ a b c d "John Tarrant Biography". Sweeping Zen.
  13. ^ "John Tarrant Director of Pacific Zen Institute". Pacific Zen Institute.
  14. ^ Tarrant, John (1987). The design of enlightenment in koan Zen. 3282860.
  15. ^ "Sex in the Sangha: Apparently, we still haven't had enough". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. February 21, 2011.
  16. ^ Sanbo Kyodan: Harada-Yasutani School of Zen Buddhism and its Teachers
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h "PZI Affiliates: PZI Teachers". Pacific Zen Institute.

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