- Hartford Street Zen Center
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name = Hartford Street Zen Center
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denomination =Soto
founded = 1989
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founder =Issan Dorsey
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abbot =Issan Dorsey Philip Whalen
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address = 57 Hartford Street,San Francisco, California 94114
country =United States
phone = (415) 863-2507
website = [http://www.hszc.org/ www.hszc.org/] The Hartford Street Zen Center, temple name Issan-ji, is aSoto Zen practice center located in theCastro district ofSan Francisco .Issan Dorsey (a former drug addict anddrag queen ) brought the center from its early beginnings as The Gay Buddhist Club of 1980 to the modern-day Hartford Street Zen Center in 1989—being made abbot there by theSan Francisco Zen Center . In 1987 the group had opened the Maitri Hospice for those dying ofAIDS , which Dorsey died of in 1990. It was the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in theUnited States , and today the center owns a building next door which houses the sick and dying. In 1991Philip Whalen , who died in 2002, took over as abbot of the Zen center. [Kraft, 15] [Gach, 231] [Leighton, 239] [Comstock, 19] [Coleman, 165-166]ee also
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Buddhism in the United States
*Homosexuality and Buddhism
*San Francisco Zen Center
*Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States References
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