Maurine Stuart

Maurine Stuart
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Rinzai
Other name(s)	Ma Roshi Mother Roshi
Personal
Born	March 3, 1922(1922-03-03) Saskatchewan, Canada
Died	February 6, 1990(1990-02-06) (aged 67)
Senior posting
Title	Roshi
Religious career
Teacher	Soen Nakagawa Eido Tai Shimano Haku'un Yasutani

Maurine Stuart (March 3, 1922—February 26, 1990), a.k.a. Ma Roshi or Mother Roshi, was a Rinzai Zen roshi who was granted her teaching title during an informal ceremony in 1982 held by her teacher Soen Nakagawa. She was one of the first female Zen masters to teach in the United States, and in 1979 became president and spiritual director of the Cambridge Buddhist Association. Nakagawa, who had given Dharma transmission previously to five individuals (all male), granted Stuart the title in defiance of convention. While she had accepted the roshi title, she never declared to be a Dharma heir or lineage holder. The title was conferred upon her independent of her previous Zen practice and 1977 ordination as a Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano.^[1]

Biography

Maurine Stuart was born in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1922. In 1949 she moved to Paris, France to study music under Nadia Boulanger, and while there she developed her interest in Zen Buddhism. In 1966 she joined the Zen Studies Society in New York, now led by Eido Tai Shimano. She also practiced under Haku'un Yasutani for some time during this period. In 1970 she had moved to Newton, Massachusetts and opened the Chestnut Hill Zendo—joining the Cambridge Buddhist Association not long after. She was ordained as a priest by Shimano in 1977. She is featured in "Zen in America: Five Teachers and the Search for American Buddhism" by Helen Tworkov. Tworkov reports that Stuart left the Shimano lineage in 1977 because of his mistreatment of women. In 1979 she became president and spiritual director of the Cambridge Buddhist Association. She died of liver cancer in 1990 and left behind no successors.^[2][3]

Bibliography

• Stuart, Maurine; Sherry Chayat (1996). Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Random House. ISBN 1570620946. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34545428&referer=brief_results. 

See also

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

Notes

1. ^ Luminous Passage, 11
2. ^ Journeys East, 298
3. ^ Zen Master Who?, 109-110

References

• Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861715098. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70174891&referer=one_hit. 

• Oldmeadow, Harry (2004). Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions. World Wisdom, Inc.. ISBN 0941532577. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54843891&referer=one_hit. 

• Prebish, Charles S. (1999). Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. ISBN 0520216970. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39299808&referer=one_hit. 

Further reading

• Tworkov, Helen (1989). Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers. North Point Press. ISBN 0865473544. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19456847&referer=one_hit. 

Persondata
Name	Stuart, Maurine
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	March 3, 1922
Place of birth	Saskatchewan, Canada
Date of death	February 6, 1990
Place of death

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