death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor teacher color location title article_title background birth_date school education name
6 november 1996 mount shasta , california , united states keido chisan koho st. leonards-on-sea , sussex , united kingdom daizui haryo young '' head of the order '' eko little macphillamy '' former abbot of shasta abbey '' meian elbert '' '' current abbess of shasta abbey '' daishin morgan '' abbot former of throssel hole abbey '' gyokuko carlson kyogen carlson james head ishmael ford of the order '' seck kim seng suigan yogo black shasta abbey roshi houn jiyu-kennett
 #ffd 068 1 january 1924 sōtō zen buddhism durham university trinity college of music houn jiyu-kennett
houn jiyu-kennett

houn jiyu-kennett -lrb- japanese : 法雲慈友ケネット , january 1 , 1924 -- november 6 , 1996 -rrb- , born peggy teresa nancy kennett , was a british roshi most famous for having been the first female to be sanctioned by the soto school of japan to teach in the west .
