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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel | Earthlyn | Soto Zen | |||||
| Goddard | Vanessa Zuisei | Soto Zen - White Plum Asanga | |||||
| Dawson | Geoff | North Sydney | ? | Australia | Soto Zen | Ordinary Mind | |
| Howard | Gregg | Brisbane | Queensland | Australia | Soto Zen | Ordinary Mind School | |
| Thomson | Sinclair Shinryu | La Paz | Bolivia | Soto | White Plum Asanga | ||
| Havens | Isshin |
Jisui Zendo - Soto Zen Buddhist Sangha Waters of Compassion (Sanga Águas da Compaixão) |
Porto Alegre | RS | Brazil | Soto Zen | Baika |
| Dung | Tran Minh |
Maple Village |
LS Brossard | PQ | Canada | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing |
| Pineda | Nenates | Toronto | OT | Canada | Sanbo Kyodan | ||
| Low | Albert | Montréal | Québec | Canada | Kapleau line | ||
| Godfrey | Eshin John | Vancouver | BC | Canada | LinChi | Rinzai-ji of Myoshin-ji | |
| Franz | Koun | Halifax | NS | Canada | Soto Zen | ||
| Henderson | Taigen | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Kapleau line | ||
| Bertelsen | Choan (Denko) | 7470 Karup J. | Denmark | Denmark | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Malagodi | Daishin Alfredo | Rome | ITALY | ITALY | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Girolami | Keimyo Doshin Dario | Rome | ? | Italy | Soto Zen | Suzuki-Roshi | |
| Spencer | Rick |
Ermita Zen México (closed) |
Mexico City | CDMX | Mexico | Soto Zen | |
| Wrightson | Amala | Auckland | NZ | New Zealand | Kapleau line | Integral Zen | |
| Child | Simon | London | n/a | UK | Linji-Caodong | Dharma Drum | |
| Birx | Charles | Blacksburg | VA | United States | White Plum (Maezumi) | White Plum | |
| Birx | Ellen Jikai | Blacksburg | VA | United States | Soto Zen | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
| Christensen | Anna | NY | NY | USA | Soto Zen | Ordinary Mind Zen School | |
| Campbell | Chodo | New York | NY | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Habito | Ruben | Dallas | TX | USA | Sambo Kyodan | ||
| Nelson | Julie Seido | Cambridge | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Johnson Rudnick | Wendy | Denver | CO | USA | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing |