Ryushin Paul Haller, a

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roshi, is a former abbot of the

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—a position he held from 2003 until February 2012.SFZC Lineage Leaving his homeland of

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in the early 1970s, Haller spent time in Russia,

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and

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. He then went to

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for two years where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk. Coming to California in 1974, he entered

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is the oldest Japanese Buddhist Sōtō Zen monastery in the United States. It is on the border of the Ventana Wilderness and within the Los Padres National Forest, southeast of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The ...

and was later ordained as a priest by

Zentatsu Richard Baker Richard Dudley Baker (born March 30, 1936) is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi), the founder of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the ''Zen Buddhist Center Black Forest'' (Zen-Bu ...

in 1980. He received shiho from Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1993, giving him authority to teach.Ford, 130ClarkeSFZC Since 2000 Haller has also been the teacher of Black Mountain Zen Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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