Atlanta Soto Zen Center

Atlanta Soto Zen Center

Infobox Buddhist temple
name = Atlanta Soto Zen Center


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denomination = Soto Matsuoka line
founded = 1977
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founder = Zenkai Taiun Michael Elliston
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address = 1167 C/D Zonolite Place, Atlanta, GA 30306
country = United States
phone = (404) 532-0040
website = [http://www.aszc.org/ www.aszc.org/] The Atlanta Soto Zen Center (ASZC) is an independent Soto Zen practice center founded in 1977 by Zenkai Taiun Michael Elliston-sensei, a student of the late Soyu Matsuoka. __NOTOC__

Lineage

In the 1970s Matsuoka and Soto Shu in Japan parted ways, and few of his Dharma heirs are seen as legitimate teachers. Taiun Michael Elliston is an exception to this common perception. As one of Matsuoka's senior students, Elliston is generally respected in his field and has himself made attempts at reconnecting with the Soto school. Author James Ishmael Ford writes, "It is possible that within a few years, this one branch, at least, of the Matsuoka line will rejoin the normative Soto tradition." [Ford, 80-81] In August 2007, Shohaku Okumura and Seirin Barbara Kohn have given Dharma transmission to Taiun Michael Elliston to help legitimize Elliston's previous transmission in the sometimes disputed lineage of Soyu Matsuoka. [Silence, please!]

ee also

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

Notes

References

*cite web| last =| first =| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Silence, please! Atlanta gets its first Zen master | work =| publisher =The Atlanta Journal-Constitution| date =2007-08-03| url =http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11ACB7DF772781C0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM| format =| doi =| accessdate = 2008-03-15
*cite book| last =Ford| first =James Ishmael| authorlink =James Ishmael Ford| coauthors =| title =Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen| publisher =Wisdom Publications| date =2006| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70174891&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0861715098


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