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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis | Zenrin | Jacksonville | FL | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Rapaport | Al Fusho | Melbourne | FL | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Gallagher | Genjo | Palm Bay | FL | USA | Soto and Rinzai | White Plum Lineage | |
| Kotler | Arnold | Paia | HI | USA | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing | |
| Kieran | Michael | Honolulu | HI | USA | Harada-Yasutani | Diamond Sangha | |
| Winecoff | Shoken | Decorah | IA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Leighton | Taigen Dan | Chicago | IL | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Althouse | Robert Joshin | Oak Park | IL | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Geiman | Shodhin | Evanston | IL | USA | Kapleau Line | ||
| Haller | Ryushin Paul | Barrington | IL | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Martin | Sojun Diane | Evanston | IL | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Smith | Elihu Genmyo | Champaign | IL | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Asanga/Ordinary Mind | |
| Lawlor | Jack | Evanston | IL | USA | Vietnamese | Order of Interbeing | |
| Russell | Ed | Champaign | IL | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Lineage | |
| Karnegis | Hoko | Bloomington | IN | USA | Soto Zen | Sotoshu | |
| Malagodi | Daishin Alfredo | Rome | ITALY | ITALY | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Roitman | Judy | Lawrence | KS | USA | Kwan Um School of Zen | Kwan Um School of Zen | |
| Lombardo | Hae Kwan Stanley | Lawrence | KS | USA | Korean Zen | Kwan Um School | |
| Gak | Dae | Clay City | KY | USA | Korean Chogye | ||
| Collins | Richard | New Orleans | LA | USA | Deshimaru | ||
| Rynick | David DaeAn | Worcester | MA | USA | Korean Rinzai | Single Flower Lineage | |
| Fieleke | Michael Shoryu | Newton | MA | USA | Soto Zen | Living Vow Zen | |
| Blacker | Melissa Myozen | Worcester | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Hartland | Kate | North Weymouth | MA | USA | Soto Zen, Korean Linji | ||
| Cabotaje | Alice | Marblehead | MA | USA | |||
| Jaeckel | Dokuro | Watertown | MA | USA | Rinzai Zen | Zen Studies Society, Rinzai-ji | |
| Hondorp | Eishun Anraku | Northhampton Center | MA | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Lineage | |
| Bailes | John Kotatsu Roko | Somerville | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Dobisz | Bon Yeon Jane | Cambridge | MA | USA | Korean Chogye | Kwanum Zen School | |
| Nelson | Julie Seido | Cambridge | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Marko | Eve Myonen | Montague | MA | USA | Soto—White Plum Asanga | ||
| Richardson | Alan Sanhyō | Worcester | MA | USA | Boundless Way Zen Temple | Boundless Way Zen | |
| Falcone | Anthony | Columbia | MD | USA | Soto and Rinzai | White Plum Lineage | |
| Blackman | Bruce Seiryu | Reisterstown | MD | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Sangha | |
| Fitzgerald | Diane Shoshin | Pembroke | ME | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Lundquist | Haju | Ann Arbor | MI | USA | Korean Chogye | ||
| Ragir | Byakuren Judith | St Paul | MN | USA | Soto Zen | Katagiri-roshi lineage | |
| Burkett | Zentetsu Tim | Minneapolis | MN | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Snyder-Oneal | Joen | Minneapolis | MN | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Connelly | Ben | Minneapolis | MN | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Rummé | Daigaku | St. Louis | MO | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Bland | Tony | Starkville | MS | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Smith | Teishin Layla | Helena | MT | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Child | Simon | London | n/a | UK | Linji-Caodong | Dharma Drum | |
| Sweger | Teshin Matthew | Pittsboro | NC | USA | Harada-Yasutani / Soto | ||
| Munnich | Teijo | Alexander | NC | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Kjolhede | Sunya | Alexander | NC | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Munnich | Teijo | Charlotte | NC | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Munnich | Teijo | Asheville | NC | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Phelan | Pat | Chapel Hill | NC | USA | Shunryu Suzuki |