About the teachers
Dōshō Port Rōshi began practicing Zen in 1977 and has studied widely, including at Bukkokuji with Harada Tangen Rōshi. He received authorization to teach Zen from Dainin Katagiri Rōshi in 1989, and inka shōmei from James Myōun Ford Rōshi in the Harada-Yasutani lineage in 2015.
Dōshō’s translation and commentary, The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans, is now available. Click here for more on the Record of Empty Hall. He is also the author of Keep Me In Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri. You can read more from Dōshō at his blog, Wild Fox Zen: Living the Dream.
Dōshō’s translation and commentary, The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans, is now available. Click here for more on the Record of Empty Hall. He is also the author of Keep Me In Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri. You can read more from Dōshō at his blog, Wild Fox Zen: Living the Dream.
During an intensive search for purpose and meaning, Tetsugan Sensei came to meditation through Iyengar yoga practice in the mid-90s, and has been a Zen practitioner for over 25 years. She received the precepts in 2001 and is an ordained Zen priest and spiritual director. She received authorization to teach Zen from James Myōun Ford Rōshi and Dōshō Rōshi.
She also studied and practiced the Nyōhō-e style of Japanese Buddhist rakusu and kesa sewing with Tomoe Katagiri (Katagiri Rōshi's widow), and teaches it to others.
Licensed as a clinical social worker, Tetsugan has also trained in the practices of Morita therapy and Naikan (known as Japanese Psychology) through the ToDo Institute in Vermont.
She also studied and practiced the Nyōhō-e style of Japanese Buddhist rakusu and kesa sewing with Tomoe Katagiri (Katagiri Rōshi's widow), and teaches it to others.
Licensed as a clinical social worker, Tetsugan has also trained in the practices of Morita therapy and Naikan (known as Japanese Psychology) through the ToDo Institute in Vermont.
Ed Goshin Lube began studying Zen with Katagiri Rōshi in the mid 80s, received the precepts from Shohaku Okumura Rōshi, and received denkai (the first step of the transmission process) from Dosho Rōshi with whom he's studied for many years. He is the assistant teacher on the Vine of Obstacles.
For more about Dainin Katagiri Rōshi, one of the founding teachers in Western Zen, see this: