American Zen Teachers Association
- American Zen Teachers Association
The American Zen Teachers Association was founded in the late 1980s as the Second Generation Zen Teachers Group. It is a peer-group organization of ordained and lay Zen Buddhist teachers, all of whom have received either teaching authorization or dharma transmission from the mostly Asian Zen teachers who brought their practices to America in the second half of the twentieth century, or their heirs. The first meetings of the AZTA were attended by a dozen or so people, reflecting what would be a Western Zen phenomenon of roughly equal numbers of men and women.
Today the AZTA has grown to over one hundred members, fifty or sixty of whom regularly attend its annual meetings. AZTA members serve Buddhist groups ranging from a dozen or so people who meet and practice in members’ homes or area churches to those serving three or four hundred members and who meet and practice in large temples and monasteries.
The AZTA does not claim to be a "credentialing body," although as it counts so many generally recognized Zen teachers in the West, being listed on its website amounts to a kind of endorsement. Nonetheless it should be noted the AZTA officially states "There are qualified Zen Teachers that are not AZTA members."
ee also
*Nonin Chowaney
*Soto Zen Buddhist Association
*Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States
External links
* [http://www.americanzenteachers.org/ Main website]
* [http://www.americanzenteachers.org/list.html American Zen Teachers Association database]
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