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    Bernie Glassman
    ReligionBuddhist
    SchoolZen Peacemaker Order
    LineageWhite Plum Asanga
    EducationBrooklyn Polytechnic Institute
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Other namesBernie Glassman
    Dharma namesTetsugen
    Personal
    NationalityAmerican
    BornBernard Glassman
    ()January 18,
    Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    DiedNovember 4, () (aged 79)
    Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
    SpouseEve Marko
    Senior posting
    TitleRoshi
    PredecessorTaizan Maezumi
    SuccessorJoan Halifax
    Father Robert Kennedy
    Wendy Egyoku Nakao
    Pat Enkyo O'Hara
    Lou Nordstrom
    Don Singer
    Grover Genro Gauntt
    Anne Seisen Saunders
    Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña
    Barbara Salaam Wegmueller
    Roland Yakushi Wegmueller
    Religious career
    Website


    Bernie Glassman (January 18, – November 4, ) was an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community o

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    Bernie Glassman

    American Buddhist teacher

    Bernie Glassman (January 18, – November 4, ) was an American Zen Buddhistroshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in In , he co-founded the Zen Peacemaker beställning with his late wife Sandra Jishu Holmes. Glassman was a Dharma successor of the late Taizan Maezumi-roshi, and gave inka and Dharma transmission to several people.

    Glassman was known as a pioneer of social enterprise, socially engaged Buddhism and "Bearing Witness Retreats" at Auschwitz and on the streets with homeless people.[1]

    According to author James Ishmael Ford, in he

    transferred his leadership of the White Plum Asanga to his Dharma brother Merzel Roshi and has formally "disrobed," renouncing priesthood in favor of serving as a lay teacher.

    Biography

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    Bernie Glassman was born to Jewish immigrants in Brighton Beach,[1]Brooklyn, New York in [2] He attended u

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    Bernie Glassman, Roshi

    Zen Master (Roshi) Bernie Glassman passed away on November 4, He was a world-renowned pioneer in the American Zen Movement. He was a spiritual leader, published author, accomplished academic and successful businessman with a PhD in Applied Mathematics. Bernie taught and traveled, giving talks and workshops on spiritual practice, socially responsible business and international peacemaking. He is the founder and Vision Holder of the Zen Peacemaker Order.

    Personal and Education

    Bernie Glassman was born in Brooklyn, New York in His parents were immigrants from Eastern europe and he grew up in a Jewish family with a strong socialist orientation. After graduating from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, he went to work for McDonnell-Douglas in California in as an aeronautical engineer, concentrating on interplanetary flights. He also obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UCLA in Currently Bernie has two grown children and kvartet grandchildren.

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