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|bornin=Biddeford, Maine
|bornin=Biddeford, Maine
|bio=Zentatsu Richard Baker (born March 30, 1936), born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum (Johanneshof) in Germany's Black Forest. As the American Dharma heir to Shunryu Suzuki, Baker assumed abbotship of the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) shortly before Suzuki's death in 1971. He remained abbot there until 1984 . . . Baker was instrumental in helping the San Francisco Zen Center to become one of the most successful Zen institutions in the United States. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentatsu_Richard_Baker Source Accessed Nov 23, 2020])
|bio=Zentatsu Richard Baker (born March 30, 1936), born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum (Johanneshof) in Germany's Black Forest. As the American Dharma heir to Shunryu Suzuki, Baker assumed abbotship of the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) shortly before Suzuki's death in 1971. He remained abbot there until 1984 . . . Baker was instrumental in helping the San Francisco Zen Center to become one of the most successful Zen institutions in the United States. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentatsu_Richard_Baker Source Accessed Nov 23, 2020])
|publications=Baker, Richard. ''Original Mind: The Practice of Zen in the West''. London: Thorsons, 1999.
|affiliation=San Francisco Zen Center
|affiliation=San Francisco Zen Center
|religiousaffiliation=Soto Zen
|religiousaffiliation=Soto Zen

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PersonType Category:Authors of English Works
Category:Ordained (Monks and Nuns)
Category:Zen Buddhist Teachers
FirstName / namefirst Richard
LastName / namelast Baker
namemiddle Dudley
MainNamePhon Richard Baker
SortName Richard Baker
AltNamesOther Zentatsu Richard Baker
bio Zentatsu Richard Baker (born March 30, 1936), born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum (Johanneshof) in Germany's Black Forest. As the American Dharma heir to Shunryu Suzuki, Baker assumed abbotship of the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) shortly before Suzuki's death in 1971. He remained abbot there until 1984 . . . Baker was instrumental in helping the San Francisco Zen Center to become one of the most successful Zen institutions in the United States. (Source Accessed Nov 23, 2020)
YearBirth 1936/03/30
BornIn Biddeford, Maine
affiliation San Francisco Zen Center
religiousaffiliation Soto Zen
StudentOf Shunryu Suzuki
publications Baker, Richard. Original Mind: The Practice of Zen in the West. London: Thorsons, 1999.
IsInGyatsa No
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