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    James Ishmael Ford (Zeno Myoun, Roshi) is an American Zen Buddhist priest and a retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He was born in Oakland, California...
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    Bernard Glassman. She assumed her abbotship in 1999. According to James Ishmael Ford, "Under her leadership, the center expanded its mission to be family-friendly...
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  • D. Ford (c. 1930-2001), American clergyman James Ishmael Ford (born 1948), American Zen Buddhist priest and Unitarian Universalist minister James R. Ford...
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    in Marin County, California, where he lives. According to author James Ishmael Ford, "Reb Anderson is one of the most prominent of contemporary Western...
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    Auschwitz and on the streets with homeless people. According to author James Ishmael Ford, in 2006 he ...transferred his leadership of the White Plum Asanga...
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    understood the need for women to have a role model. According to author James Ishmael Ford, Hartman was "... seen as a quiet and yet compelling leader exercising...
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    been adapted by Seung Sahn to the needs of Westerners. According to James Ishmael Ford, the Kwan Um School of Zen is the largest Zen school in the Western...
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  • members of the Zen community. Author and ordained Buddhist priest James Ishmael Ford writes of her, "Perhaps the most prominent of apparently self-declared...
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  • Durst – author, educator, former president of the Unification Church James Ishmael Ford – Zen Buddhist priest and Unitarian Universalist minister Ray Frank...
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  • like free-floating clouds or flowing water." According to author James Ishmael Ford, "In Japan, one receives unsui ordination at the beginning of formal...
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