Edward Espe Brown

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name = Edward Espe Brown

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Edward Espe Brown is an American Zen teacher and author. He resides in Fairfax, Marin County, California.cite web |url= http://www.sfzc.org/tassajara/leaders.php#eeb |title= Zen Retreat Leaders |work= Tassajara Zen Mountain Center |quote= ]

Ordained as a Zen priest by Shunryu Suzuki,cite web |url= http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/20164/Edward_Espe_Brown/index.aspx |title= Edward Espe Brown |work= HarperCollins authors |quote= ] who gave him the name Jusan Kainei ("Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea"), Ed Brown has led meditation retreats and classescite web |url= http://www.sbmg.org/teachers.htm |title= Visiting teachers: Edward Espe Brown |author= Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group. |quote= ] throughout the United States and in other countries. He is one of the founders of Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, California.cite web |url= http://www.beliefnet.com/story/17/story_1742_1.html |title= A Potato Chip Meditation |author= Edward Espe Brown |work= Beliefnet |publisher= Reprinted with permission from "Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings" |quote= ]

Edward Espe Brown is the subject of the documentary film, "How to Cook Your Life," by Doris Dörrie.cite web |url= http://www.reuters.com/article/reviewsNews/idUSN0230940220070702 |title= Zen documentary is appetizing fare |author= Kirk Honeycutt |work= Reuters, Hollywood Reporter |date= 2 July 2007 |quote= ] [imdb title|0943512|How to Cook Your Life. German title: Wie man sein Leben kocht.]

Books

* "The Tassajara Bread Book." Shambhala Publications. Written at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.:* 1970 first edition: ISBN 0-87773-025-3, ISBN 978-0877730255.:* 1995 25th anniversary edition: ISBN 1-57062-089-X, ISBN 978-1570620898.
* "Tassajara Cooking." Shambhala Publications. ISBN 0-87773-344-9, ISBN 978-0877733447.
* "The Tassajara Recipe Book." Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-580-8, ISBN 978-1570625800.
* "Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings: Recipes and Reflections." Riverhead Books. ISBN 1-57322-673-4, ISBN 978-1573226738.
* "The Greens Cookbook," with Deborah Madison. Random House Broadway imprint. ISBN 0-76790-823-6, ISBN 978-0767908238.
* "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen." Lectures by Shunryu Suzuki (ed.) HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06095-754-9, ISBN 978-0060957544.

ee also

*Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.peacefulseasangha.com/ Edward Espe Brown website, Peaceful Sea Sangha.]