Zen Masters of America by Richard Bryan McDaniel is the first of two books profiling the men and women who have established Zen on this continent. The focus of this volume is deliberately narrow, limited to the pioneers who brought Japanese Zen to America and to those whose stories are, in a sense, complete. Fourteen teachers are profiled. 

Richard Bryan McDaniel taught at the University of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas University before starting a 27-year career in International Development and Fair Trade. He is the creator of the YMCA Peace Medallion. A long time Zen practitioner, he is also the author of Zen Masters of China, Zen Masters of Japan, and Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America.

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