Jan Chozen Bays

Jan Chozen Bays
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Harada-Yasutani
Lineage	White Plum Asanga
Dharma name(s)	Chozen
Personal
Born	c. 1945 United States
Senior posting
Title	Roshi
Predecessor	Taizan Maezumi
Religious career
Website	Great Vow Zen Monastery Zen Community of Oregon

Jan Chozen Bays, MD (1945 - ), is a pediatrician and Zen teacher practicing in Oregon. With her husband Laren Hogen Bays, since 1985 she has been a teacher at the Zen Community of Oregon, a Zen center or sangha in Portland, Oregon.^[1] Chozen and Hogen Bays are also co-founders of the Great Vow Zen Monastery of Clatskanie, Oregon, which opened in 2002 and where she is now co-abbot. She was a student of Venerable Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, from 1977 until the time of his death in 1995, and from whom she received dharma transmission in 1983. From 1990 until the present she has continued to deepen and expand her practice with Shodo Harada, a Rinzai Zen teacher.^[2][3][4] She is also interested in interfaith dialogue and currently sits on the Board of World Religious Leaders for the Elijah Interfaith Institute. ^[5]

Gallery

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  with Kaz Tanahashi

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  husband Hogen Bays

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  Hogen, Paul Genki Kahn, and Chozen

See also

• Gyokuko Carlson
• Kyogen Carlson
• List of Rinzai Buddhists
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

1. ^ Haught, Nancy (January 11, 2001). "Karma: Buddhism's most misunderstood concept". Amarillo Globe News. http://www.amarillo.com/stories/011101/bel_karma.shtml. 
2. ^ Before founding Great Vow she was the founder of Larch Mountain Zen Center, also in the Portland area, and prior to that she and Hogen were long time residents of the LA Zen Center, founded by Maezumi Roshi. Chozen is a pediatrician specializing in child abuse, founded a child abuse clinic in Portland (called CARES) and has lectured on the subject throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of several books. Kosho Uchiyama, Thomas Wright, Jisho Cary Warner, Shohaku Okumura (2004). Opening the hand of thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861713575. 
3. ^ Lives of Gratefulness. Lulu Press, Inc.. ISBN 1411632672. 
4. ^ James William Coleman (2002). The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195152417. 
5. ^ The Elijah Interfaith Institute - Buddhist Members of the Board of World Religious Leaders

External links

• Great Vow Zen Monastery
• Zen Community of Oregon
• Jizo Bodhisattva, Modern Healing and Traditional Buddhist Practice

Persondata
Name	Bays, Jan Chozan
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1945
Place of birth	United States
Date of death
Place of death