This is a list of active members of AZTA and where they teach.
Please be aware that not every authorized Zen teacher is a member of AZTA.
The table is sorted by Last Name
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For US use two letter abbreviation when searching (filtering) by State.
| Last Name | First Name | Center |
City |
State | Country | Lineage | Zen Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vardi | Eran | Wyckoff | NJ | USA | White Plum (Maezumi) | White Plum Asangha | |
| Richardson | Alan Sanhyō | Worcester | MA | USA | Boundless Way Zen Temple | Boundless Way Zen | |
| Rynick | David DaeAn | Worcester | MA | USA | Korean Rinzai | Single Flower Lineage | |
| Blacker | Melissa Myozen | Worcester | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Kaplan | Jill Kakushin | Woodside | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki lineage | |
| Merrill | Misha Shungen | Woodside | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Guzy | Patricia Shingetsu | Woodland Hills | CA | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Sangha | |
| Field | Gendo Allyn | White River Junction | VT | USA | Rinzai Zen | Joshu Sasaki | |
| Kennedy | Robert | White Plains | NY | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Philips | Douglas | West Cornwall | CT | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Jaeckel | Dokuro | Watertown | MA | USA | Rinzai Zen | Zen Studies Society, Rinzai-ji | |
| Ponce-Barger | Inryu Bobbi | Washington | DC | USA | Soto | Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | |
| Reed | Caitriona | Warner Springs | CA | USA | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing | |
| Gage | John Jiyu | Vista | CA | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Cain | Christopher | Vashon | WA | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Godfrey | Eshin John | Vancouver | BC | Canada | LinChi | Rinzai-ji of Myoshin-ji | |
| Mocine | Mary | Vallejo | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki-roshi lineage | |
| Cortes | Helen | Tulsa | OK | USA | Harada-Yasutani | Harada-Yasutani | |
| Dorsey | Dan | Tucson | AZ | USA | Sanbo Kyodan | Soto/Rinzai blend | |
| Henderson | Taigen | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Kapleau line | ||
| Pineda | Nenates | Toronto | OT | Canada | Sanbo Kyodan | ||
| Weik | Jay | Toledo | OH | USA | Harada Yasutani/Soto Zen | ||
| Chayat | Shinge Roko | Syracuse | NY | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Bland | Tony | Starkville | MS | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Rummé | Daigaku | St. Louis | MO | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Ragir | Byakuren Judith | St Paul | MN | USA | Soto Zen | Katagiri-roshi lineage | |
| Stark | Myogen Kathryn | Sonoma | CA | USA | Soto Zen; Suzuki Roshi lineage | ||
| Bailes | John Kotatsu Roko | Somerville | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Graef | Sunyana | Shelburne | VT | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Emerson | Dōjin Sarah | Sebastopol | CA | USA | Soto Zen Suzuki lineage | ||
| Warner | Jisho | Sebastopol | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Fortin | Chris | Sebastopol | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Terragno | Daniel | Sebastapol | CA | USA | Diamond Sangha | ||
| Duffy | Jack | Seattle | WA | USA | Diamond Sangha | ||
| Feng | Anita | Seattle | WA | USA | Korean Zen | Golden Wind | |
| Marinello | Genjo | Seattle | WA | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Kwong | Jakusho | Santa Rosa | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Mansfield-Howlett | Rachel | Santa Rosa | CA | USA | Rinzai | ||
| Tarrant | John | Santa Rosa | CA | USA | Pacific Zen School | Pacific Zen Institute | |
| Roen | Kodo Noah | Santa Fe | NM | USA | White Plum Asanga | Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order | |
| Halifax | Joan | Santa Fe | NM | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Palevsky | Matthew Kozan | Santa Fe | NM | USA | Soto Zen | Soto Zen | |
| Shukman | Henry | Santa Fe | NM | USA | Sanbo Kyodan | ||
| Roberts | Shinshu | Santa Cruze | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Shunryu Suzuki-roshi lineage | |
| Kinst | Daijaku Judith | Santa Cruze | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki-roshi lineage | |
| Atkinson | Carolyn | Santa Cruz | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Parekh | Neti | Santa Cruz | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki Shunryu | |
| Bush | Ryushin Fugan Eugene | Santa Cruz | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Leighton | Taigen Dan | San Rafael | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Bishop | Mitra | San Marcos | CA | USA | Kapleau line |