Tenshin Reb Anderson

About The Author

Reb Anderson Roshi moved to San Francisco in 1967 to study Zen Buddhism with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who ordained him as a priest in 1970. Since then, he has continued to practice at the San Francisco Zen Center, where he served as abbot from 1986 to 1995 and is now a senior dharma teacher. Anderson Roshi lectures and leads retreats around the world, and is the author of Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains and Being Upright. He lives with his family and friends at Green Dragon Temple, Green Gulch Farm, near Muir Beach, in Northern California.

Books by Tenshin Reb Anderson

Zen's Chinese Heritage

The Masters and Their Teachings

By Andy Ferguson
Foreword by Tenshin Reb Anderson and Steven Heine
Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of the r...
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Dogen's Extensive Record

A Translation of the Eihei Koroku

By Eihei Dogen
Contributions by John Daido Loori and Steven Heine / Edited by Taigen Dan Leighton / Foreword by Tenshin Reb Anderson / Translated by Shohaku Okumura
Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to...
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