website religion birth_place teacher color location nationality title article_title lineage background birth_date image school name
-lsb- http://zmm.mro.org zen mountain monastery -rsb- zen buddhism atlanta , georgia john daido loori black -lsb- -lsb- http://zmm.mro.org zen mountain monastery -rsb- national buddhist prison sangha http://zcnyc.mro.org zen center of new york city -rsb- american sensei geoffrey shugen arnold
 -lsb- https://zmm.mro.org/about/history-of-zmm-and-mro mountains and rivers order -rsb- #ffd 068 20 october 1957 shugen sensei.png sōtō geoffrey shugen arnold
geoffrey shugen arnold

geoffrey shugen arnold is a sensei of the mountains and rivers order -lrb- mro -rrb- founded by john daido loori , from whom shugen received shiho , or dharma transmission , in july 1997 .
as a lineage holder in the sōtō tradition , shugen currently serves as head of mro and abbot of both zen mountain monastery in brooklyn .
and trained as a musician , shugen was introduced to and began practicing zen meditation in 1975 .
he began his formal training at zen mountain monastery in 1984 , and received tokudo , full monastic ordination , in 1988 .
shugen 's teachings have appeared in various buddhist publications , including '' '' , `` the mountain record '' and in `` the best buddhist writing 2005 '' and `` 2009 '' .
his dharma talks are available for sale through the monastery store and as a free podcast at wzen.org .
he is the author of `` o , beautiful end '' , a collection of zen memorial poems , published by dharma communications in 2012 .
in october 2012 , shugen gave denkai , or priestly transmission , to jody hojin kimmel , osho .
