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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Patrick Bansho | Portland | OR | USA | Soto | White Plum Asanga | |
| Merrill | Misha Shungen | Woodside | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Kaplan | Jill Kakushin | Woodside | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki lineage | |
| Bland | Tony | Starkville | MS | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Pastor | Thomas | Las Vegas | NV | USA | Korean Zen | Kwan Um School of Zen | |
| Low | Albert | Montréal | Québec | Canada | Kapleau line | ||
| Graef | Sunyana | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Chayat | Shinge Roko | Livingston Manor | NY | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Chayat | Shinge Roko | New York | NY | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Dawson | Geoff | North Sydney | ? | Australia | Soto Zen | Ordinary Mind | |
| Althouse | Robert Joshin | Oak Park | IL | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum | |
| Fletcher | Charles Tenshin | Mountain Center | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Franz | Koun | Halifax | NS | Canada | Soto Zen | ||
| Antonaccio | Choro Carla | Austin | TX | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Nelson | Julie Seido | Cambridge | MA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Ân Giáo | Thích | Lucerne Valley | CA | USA | Lieu Quan lineage | ||
| Henkel | Kokyo | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki-roshi lineage | |||
| Cain | Christopher | Vashon | WA | USA | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Cooper | Seiso | New York | NY | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Cortes | Helen | Tulsa | OK | USA | Harada-Yasutani | Harada-Yasutani | |
| Gallagher | Genjo | Palm Bay | FL | USA | Soto and Rinzai | White Plum Lineage | |
| McMullen | Ejo | Eugene | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| 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 | |
| Cabotaje | Alice | Marblehead | MA | USA | |||
| Martin | Rafe | Rochester | NY | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Morris | Mark | Ridgewood | NJ | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Lineage | |
| Malagodi | Daishin Alfredo | Rome | ITALY | ITALY | Rinzai Zen | ||
| Collins | Richard | New Orleans | LA | USA | Deshimaru | ||
| Bishop | Mitra | Ojo Sarco | NM | USA | Kapleau line | ||
| Parekh | Neti | Santa Cruz | CA | USA | Soto Zen | Suzuki Shunryu | |
| Green | Tova | San Francisco | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Austin | Shosan Victoria | San Francisco | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Bloodgood | Mark Shōgen | Los Osos | CA | USA | Soto | White Plum Asanga | |
| Roen | Kodo Noah | Santa Fe | NM | USA | White Plum Asanga | Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order | |
| Griffith | Senshin Katherine | Los Angeles | CA | USA | Soto and Rinzai | White Plum Lineage | |
| Fitzgerald | Diane Shoshin | Pembroke | ME | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Martin | Laura | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Trussell | Larry | Clatskanie | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Trussell | Larry | Portland | OR | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Ruff | Tenku | Beacon | NY | USA | Soto Zen | Harada / Ban | |
| Bartholomew | Tom Chigen | Redlands | CA | USA | Soto Zen | White Plum Asanga | |
| Yokoyama | Gyokei | Montebello | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Fortin | Chris | Sebastopol | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Brown | Chōbun Nenzen Pamela | Los Gatos | CA | USA | Phoenix Cloud Lineage | ||
| Connelly | Ben | Minneapolis | MN | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Goddard | Vanessa Zuisei | Soto Zen - White Plum Asanga | |||||
| Bunce | Renshin | Eureka | CA | USA | Soto Zen | ||
| Burk | Domyo | Portland | OR | USA | Dharma Cloud lineage | ||
| Marko | Eve Myonen | Montague | MA | USA | Soto—White Plum Asanga |