Religion Zen Buddhism Titles Roshi Website www.zencenter.org/ Successor Merle Kodo Boyd | Name Wendy Nakao Lineage White Plum Asanga School Sanbo Kyodan | |
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Based in Zen Center of Los Angeles | ||
Predecessor Tetsugen Bernard Glassman | ||
Wendy egyoku nakao 16 days of activism against gender violence 2012
Wendy Egyoku Nakao is the abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles. She moved into the center in 1978 and later received Dharma transmission and inka from Bernard Glassman. She assumed her abbotship in 1999. According to James Ishmael Ford, "Under her leadership, the center has expanded its mission to be family-friendly and socially active, creating an important experiment in the development of Western Zen." Nakao has also conferred Dharma transmission to the first ever African-American woman, Merle Kodo Boyd. Nakao is a member of the American Zen Teachers Association.[1]
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