Enkyo Pat O'Hara

Enkyō Pat O'Hara is a Soto priest and teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage of Zen Buddhism.[3] She is abbot and founder of the Village Zendo in New York City.[4][5][6] She serves as co-spiritual director of the Zen Peacemaker Order along with Tetsugen Bernard Glassman.[7] She is also a former professor of interactive media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She holds a doctorate in Media ecology. A socially engaged Buddhist, she is a member of the White Plum Asanga and manages the Buddhist AIDS Network.[3]

Enkyō Pat O'Hara
TitleRoshi
Personal
ReligionZen Buddhism
SchoolSōtō and Rinzai
Zen Peacemaker Circle
LineageWhite Plum Asanga
Senior posting
Based inTisch School of the Arts
Village Zendo
PredecessorTetsugen Bernard Glassman
SuccessorBarbara Joshin O’Hara[1]
Jules Shuzen Harris[2]

Randall Ryotan Eiger
Sinlcair Shinryu Thomson
Catherine Anraku Hondorp
Julie Myoko Terestman
Websitewww.villagezendo.org

Biography

In high school, O'Hara read R. H. Blyth’s translations of haiku, Buddhist sutras, and the writings of D. T. Suzuki.[4] This began her studies in Zen which led to her spending a summer at Zen Mountain Monastery in her late thirties.

O'Hara studied with John Daido Loori but differences with her teacher led her to begin studying with Taizan Maezumi, who himself was Loori's teacher.[4]

O'Hara was ordained a Soto priest by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in 1995 and received shiho from Bernard Glassman in 1997.[4][8] In June 2004 Glassman gave O'Hara inka.[8]

Activism

Much of Enkyo's activism is in the world of HIV/AIDS, from teaching meditation to HIV-positive practitioners to working on prevention strategies among those at risk, and serving as Chairperson of the Board of the National AIDS Interfaith Network. Enkyo, who is a lesbian,[6] has articulated a Zen Buddhist approach to issues dealing with sexuality, race, class, and health.

Bibliography
  • O'Hara, Pat Enkyu (2014). Most Intimate: A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1590309742.
gollark: But they *do* run in the background, to some extent.
gollark: I have an addon called "tab suspender" which lets me manually unload tabs to save RAM and let me have hundreds without problems.
gollark: Hmm, I only have about 310 tabs open.
gollark: This is very irritating. My internet connection is dropping packets all over the place, and randomly disconnecting entirely. I blame BT.
gollark: I feel like a lot of the time people tend to buy NVMe disks because "faster" even though they're not massively beneficial most of the time.

See also

References
  1. "Barbara Joshin O'Hara". Village Zendo. Archived from the original on May 13, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  2. "Jules Shuzen Harris, Sensei". Village Zendo. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  3. Skinner Keller, Rosemary; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Marie Cantlon (2006). The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press. p. 1096. ISBN 0-253-34685-1. OCLC 61711172.
  4. Boyle, Richard P. (April 24, 2015). "You Yourself Are Oatmeal". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  5. Gregory, Peter N. (2007). Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences. Wisdom Publications. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-86171-539-8.
  6. Wilson, Jeff (2000). The Buddhist Guide to New York. Macmillan. pp. 102–103. ISBN 0-312-26715-0. OCLC 44089480.
  7. "O'Hara, Pat Enkyo". Sweeping Zen. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  8. "ZPO Founding Teachers-USA". Zen Peacemaker Order. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
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