Name Gil Fronsdal | School Soto Zen | |
Books The Issue at Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice |
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Gil Fronsdal (born 1954) has been a practicing Buddhist of the Soto Zen and Vipassana sects since 1975, and is currently teaching the practice of Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having been taught by the Vipassana practitioner Jack Kornfield, Fronsdal is part of the Vipassana teachers' collective at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985. In 1995, he received Dharma transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center.
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He is the guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) of Redwood City, California. He has a PhD in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University. His many dharma talks available on line contain basic information on meditation and Buddhism, as well as subtle concepts of Buddhism explained at the level of the lay person.
