Enkyo Pat O'Hara

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name = Enkyō Pat O'Hara


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denomination = Zen Buddhism
school = Soto and Rinzai
Zen Peacemaker Circle
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title = Roshi
workplace = Tisch School of the Arts
Village Zendo
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successor = Barbara Joshin O’Hara [http://www.villagezendo.org/sections/albums/joshin_transmission/joshin2.htm]
Jules Shuzen Harris [http://www.villagezendo.org/sections/sangha/shuzen_sensei.htm]
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Enkyō Pat O'Hara, a Zen roshi with transmission in both the Soto and Rinzai lines, is the abbot of the of Village Zendo in New York City (formerly located in her apartment).Gregory, 41] She serves as co-spiritual director of the Zen Peacemaker Order [http://www.zenpeacemakers.org/about/bios/enkyo_bio.htm] along with Tetsugen Bernard Glassman. She is also a former professor of interactive media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She holds a doctorate in Media ecology. A socially engaged Buddhist, she is a member of the White Plum Asanga and manages the Buddhist AIDS Network.

Much of Enkyo’s activism is in the world of HIV/AIDS, from teaching meditation to HIV-positive practitioners to working on prevention strategies among those at risk, and serving as Chairperson of the Board of the National AIDS Interfaith Network. As a lesbianWilson, 102-103] , she articulates a Zen Buddhist approach to issues of difference around sexuality, race, class, and health. O'Hara was ordained a Soto priest by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in 1995 and received shiho from Bernard Glassman in 1996. In June 2004 Glassman gave O'Hara inka. [http://www.zenpeacemakers.org/about/bios/enkyo_bio.htm]

ee also

*Buddhism in the United States
*Homosexuality and Buddhism
*Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

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