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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy | Robert | White Plains | NY | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Terris | Abby | Corvallis | OR | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Asangha | |
| Warner | Jisho | Sebastopol | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Falcone | Anthony | Columbia | MD | USA | Soto and Rinzai | White Plum Lineage | |
| Hedgpeth | Nancy | Cumberland | RI | USA | Korean Chogye | Kwanum Zen School | |
| Yokoyama | Gyokei | Montebello | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Reed | Caitriona | Warner Springs | CA | USA | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing | |
| Gage | John Jiyu | Vista | CA | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Smith | Teishin Layla | Corte Madera | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Ruff | Tenku | Beacon | NY | USA | Soto Zen | Harada / Ban | |
| Kotler | Arnold | Paia | HI | USA | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing | |
| Geiman | Shodhin | Evanston | IL | USA | Kapleau Line | ||
| Morgareidge | Kenneth R. | Denver | CO | USA | Diamond Sangha | ||
| Leyshon | Jean | Arroyo Seco | NM | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Leighton | Taigen Dan | Bolinas | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Althouse | Robert Joshin | Oak Park | IL | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Burk | Domyo | Portland | OR | USA | Dharma Cloud lineage | ||
| Austin | Shosan Victoria | San Francisco | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Graef | Sunyana | Shelburne | VT | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Saunders | Anne Seisen | National City | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Cutts | Jiko Linda Ruth | Muir Beach | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Shunryu Suzuki Lineage | |
| Abels | Gregory Hosho | New York | NY | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Asanga | |
| Bailes | John Kotatsu Roko | Somerville | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Ford | James | Long Beach | CA | USA | Soto Zen/ Harada Yasutani | ||
| Lowe-Charde | Kakumyo | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | Dharma Cloud; Meiho-Manzan lineage | |
| Morris | Mark | Ridgewood | NJ | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Lineage | |
| Kitzes | Bon Soeng Jeffrey | Berkeley | CA | USA | Korean Chogye | Kwanum Zen School | |
| Richardson | Alan Sanhyō | Worcester | MA | USA | Boundless Way Zen Temple | Boundless Way Zen | |
| Schomberg | Koshin | McKenna | WA | USA | Soto Zen | Order of Buddhist Contemplatives | |
| Lombardo | Hae Kwan Stanley | Lawrence | KS | USA | Korean Zen | Kwan Um School | |
| Little | Jintei Harold | Ashland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki-roshi lineage | |
| Shumnan | Jane Genshin | Old Greenwich | CT | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Philips | Douglas | West Cornwall | CT | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Trussell | Larry | Clatskanie | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Voelkel | Mako | Austin | TX | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki Shunryu | |
| Bunce | Renshin | Eureka | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Tu'-Lu'c | Thich | Hayward | CA | USA | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing | |
| Bland | Tony | Starkville | MS | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Schneider | Jane | Northridge | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Mansfield-Howlett | Rachel | Santa Rosa | CA | USA | Rinzai | ||
| Chayat | Shinge Roko | Livingston Manor | NY | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Bishop | Mitra | Ojo Sarco | NM | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Snyder-Oneal | Joen | Minneapolis | MN | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Wolfer | Jikyo Cheryl | Olympia | WA | USA | Soto Zen school, Kasuryu Tetsumei lineage | Order of Ryokan | |
| Nakao | Wendy Egyoku | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Lineage(s) ZEN; WHITE PLUM SANGHA; ZEN PEACEMAKERS | |
| Bays | Chozen | Clatskanie | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Henkel | Kokyo | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki-roshi lineage | |||
| Hondorp | Eishun Anraku | Northhampton Center | MA | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Lineage | |
| Cortes | Helen | Tulsa | OK | USA | Harada-Yasutani | Harada-Yasutani | |
| Rummé | Daigaku | St. Louis | MO | USA | Soto Zen |