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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dung | Tran Minh |
Maple Village |
LS Brossard | PQ | Canada | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing |
| Spencer | Rick |
Ermita Zen México (closed) |
Mexico City | CDMX | Mexico | Soto Zen | |
| Conover | Kodo | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen, White Plum Asanga | ||
| Reichert | Tom Dharma-Joy | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Soto/White Plum Asanga | ||
| Stark | Myogen Kathryn | Sonoma | CA | USA | Soto Zen; Suzuki Roshi lineage | ||
| Wolfer | Jikyo Cheryl | Olympia | WA | USA | Soto Zen school, Kasuryu Tetsumei lineage | Order of Ryokan | |
| Geiman | Shodhin | Evanston | IL | USA | Kapleau Line | ||
| Stauffer | Sosetsu Mark | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Bertelsen | Choan (Denko) | 7470 Karup J. | Denmark | Denmark | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Marko | Eve Myonen | Montague | MA | USA | Soto—White Plum Asanga | ||
| Burk | Domyo | Portland | OR | USA | Dharma Cloud lineage | ||
| Cooper | Seiso |
Zen Buddhist Meditation Circle |
Barre | VT | USA | Soto Zen | |
| Dorsey | Dan | Tucson | AZ | USA | Sanbo Kyodan | Soto/Rinzai blend | |
| Palevsky | Matthew Kozan | Santa Fe | NM | USA | Soto Zen | Soto Zen | |
| Tenzen | Myozan | San Francisco, | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Soto Zen | |
| Kowal | Dhara | Rochester | NY | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Bunce | Renshin | Eureka | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Goddard | Vanessa Zuisei | Soto Zen - White Plum Asanga | |||||
| Costenbader | Amy Kisei | Columbus | OH | USA | Soto Zen - White Plum Asanga | White Plum Asanga | |
| Hunsaker | Myoko Sara | Monterey | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Connelly | Ben | Minneapolis | MN | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Brown | Chōbun Nenzen Pamela | Los Gatos | CA | USA | Phoenix Cloud Lineage | ||
| Fortin | Chris | Sebastopol | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| SoZui | TaiShin | San Marcos | CA | USA | Rinzai Zen | Rinzai Zen | |
| Yokoyama | Gyokei | Montebello | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Richardson | Alan Sanhyō | Worcester | MA | USA | Boundless Way Zen Temple | Boundless Way Zen | |
| Bartholomew | Tom Chigen | Redlands | CA | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Asanga | |
| Werner | Bobby Chowa | San Diego | CA | USA | White Plum Asanga | ||
| Ruff | Tenku | Beacon | NY | USA | Soto Zen | Harada / Ban | |
| Trussell | Larry | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Trussell | Larry | Clatskanie | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Martin | Laura | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Fitzgerald | Diane Shoshin | Pembroke | ME | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Griffith | Senshin Katherine | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Soto and Rinzai | White Plum Lineage | |
| Roen | Kodo Noah | Santa Fe | NM | USA | White Plum Asanga | Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order | |
| Bloodgood | Mark Shōgen | Los Osos | CA | USA | Soto | White Plum Asanga | |
| Austin | Shosan Victoria | San Francisco | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Green | Tova | San Francisco | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Parekh | Neti | Santa Cruz | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki Shunryu | |
| Bishop | Mitra | Ojo Sarco | NM | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Collins | Richard | New Orleans | LA | USA | Deshimaru | ||
| Malagodi | Daishin Alfredo | Rome | ITALY | ITALY | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Morris | Mark | Ridgewood | NJ | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Lineage | |
| Martin | Rafe | Rochester | NY | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Cabotaje | Alice | Marblehead | MA | USA | |||
| Kessel | Ken | New York | NY | USA | Korean Chogye | Kwan Um School of Zen | |
| Kessel | Ken | New York | NY | USA | Korean Chogye | Kwan Um School of Zen | |
| McMullen | Ejo | Eugene | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Gallagher | Genjo | Palm Bay | FL | USA | Soto and Rinzai | White Plum Lineage | |
| Cortes | Helen | Tulsa | OK | USA | Harada-Yasutani | Harada-Yasutani |