Jan Chozen Bays

Jan Chozen Bays
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Harada-Yasutani
Lineage	White Plum Asanga
Dharma names	Chozen
Personal
Born	c. 1945 United States
Spouse	Hogen Bays
Senior posting
Title	Roshi
Predecessor	Taizan Maezumi
Religious career
Website	Great Vow Zen Monastery Zen Community of Oregon

Jan Chozen Bays, MD (born 1945), is a pediatrician and Zen teacher practicing in Oregon.

With her husband Laren Hogen Bays, since 1985 she has been a teacher at the Zen Community of Oregon, a Zen center or sangha in Portland, Oregon. Chozen and Hogen Bays are also co-founders of the Great Vow Zen Monastery of Clatskanie, Oregon, which opened in 2002 and where she is now co-abbot. She was a student of Venerable Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, from 1977 until the time of his death in 1995, and from whom she received dharma transmission in 1983. From 1990 until the present she has continued to deepen and expand her practice with Shodo Harada, a Rinzai Zen teacher. She is also interested in interfaith dialogue and currently sits on the Board of World Religious Leaders for the Elijah Interfaith Institute.

with Kaz Tanahashi

husband Hogen Bays

Hogen, Paul Genki Kahn, and Chozen

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