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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| Last Name | First Name | Center | City | State | Country |
Lineage |
Zen Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abels | Gregory Hosho | New York | NY | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Asanga | |
| Bailes | John Kotatsu Roko | Somerville | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Austin | Shosan Victoria | San Francisco | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Lowe-Charde | Kakumyo | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | Dharma Cloud; Meiho-Manzan lineage | |
| Saunders | Anne Seisen | National City | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Abels | Jiryu Janet | New York | NY | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Asanga | |
| Rainwater | Sylvan | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | Dharma Cloud | |
| Fletcher | Charles Tenshin | Mountain Center | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Martin | Debra | Blachly | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Antonaccio | Choro Carla | Austin | TX | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Clay | Jyoshin | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | Dharma Cloud Lineage | |
| Kaplan | Jill Kakushin | Woodside | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki lineage | |
| Ragir | Byakuren Judith | St Paul | MN | USA | Soto Zen | Katagiri-roshi lineage | |
| Thach | Andrea | Bellingham | WA | USA | Soto Zen | Shunryu Suzuki/Sojun Weitsman | |
| Fieleke | Michael Shoryu | Newton | MA | USA | Soto Zen | Living Vow Zen | |
| Merrill | Misha Shungen | Woodside | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Munnich | Teijo | Alexander | NC | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Burnett | Nomon Tim | Bellingham | WA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Tenzen | Myozan | San Francisco, | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Soto Zen | |
| Carlson | Gyokuko | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Bennage | P. Dai-En | Pennsdale | PA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Palevsky | Matthew Kozan | Santa Fe | NM | USA | Soto Zen | Soto Zen | |
| Leighton | Taigen Dan | San Rafael | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Shonkwiler | Cornelia Junfu | San Jose | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Syverson | Margaret Bushin Koan | Austin | TX | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki-Roshi | |
| Jones | Meiko | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | Order of Buddhist Contemplatives | |
| 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 | ||
| Morris | Mark | Ridgewood | NJ | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Lineage | |
| Trussell | Larry | Clatskanie | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Schomberg | Koshin | McKenna | WA | USA | Soto Zen | Order of Buddhist Contemplatives | |
| Krahl | Etsudo Patty | Ashland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki Roshi lineage | |
| Whilden | Kathy | Monterey | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Trussell | Larry | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Salzberg | Jogen | Clatskanie | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Winecoff | Shoken | Decorah | IA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Blacker | Melissa Myozen | Worcester | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Forsberg | Ian | Arroyo Seco | NM | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Parekh | Neti | Santa Cruz | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki Shunryu | |
| Brown | Edward | Fairfax | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Kaye | Les | Mountain View | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Cicetti | Raymond | Morristown | NJ | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Cooper | Seiso |
Zen Buddhist Meditation Circle |
Barre | VT | USA | Soto Zen | |
| Eiger | Randall | New York | NY | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Blackman | Bruce Seiryu | Reisterstown | MD | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Sangha | |
| 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 | ||
| Munnich | Teijo | Asheville | NC | USA | Soto Zen |