Bernie Glassman
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Bernie Glassman (January 18, 1939 – November 4, 2018) was an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in 1980. In 1996, he co-founded the Zen Peacemaker Order with his late wife Sandra Jishu Holmes. Glassman was a Dharma successor of the late Taizan Maezumi-roshi, and gave inka and Dharma transmission to several people.
Bernie Glassman | |
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Title | Roshi |
Personal | |
Born | Bernard Glassman (1939-01-18)January 18, 1939 |
Died | November 4, 2018(2018-11-04) (aged 79) Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Religion | Buddhist |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Eve Marko |
School | Zen Peacemaker Order |
Lineage | White Plum Asanga |
Education | Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute University of California, Los Angeles |
Other names | Bernie Glassman |
Senior posting | |
Predecessor | Taizan Maezumi |
Successor | Joan Halifax Father Robert Kennedy Wendy Egyoku Nakao Pat Enkyo O'Hara Lou Nordstrom Don Singer Grover Genro Gauntt Anne Seisen Saunders Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña Barbara Salaam Wegmueller Roland Yakushi Wegmueller |
Website | zenpeacemakers.org |
Glassman was known as a pioneer of social enterprise, socially engaged Buddhism and "Bearing Witness Retreats" at Auschwitz and on the streets with homeless people.[1]
According to author James Ishmael Ford, in 2006 he
...transferred his leadership of the White Plum Asanga to his Dharma brother Merzel Roshi and has formally "disrobed," renouncing priesthood in favor of serving as a lay teacher.