Shohaku Okumura
| Shōhaku Okumura | |
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| Religion | Zen Buddhism |
| School | Sōtō |
| Education | Komazawa University |
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| Nationality | Japanese |
| Born |
June 22, 1948 Osaka, Japan |
| Spouse | Yūko Okumura |
| Children | Yōko and Masaki |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Sanshin Zen Community |
| Title | Priest |
| Predecessor | Kosho Uchiyama |
| Successor | Chikō Corona, Shōtai de la Rosa, Denshō Quintero, Shōju Mahler, Shōryu Bradley, Shōdō Spring, Hōkō Karnegis, and Eidō Reinhart |
Shōhaku Okumura (奥村 正博, b. 1948) is a Japanese Soto Zen priest and the founder and guiding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community (Sanshinji) located in Bloomington, Indiana, where he and his family currently live. From 1997 until 2010, Okumura also served as Director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco, California, which is an administrative office of the Soto school of Japan (formerly located in Los Angeles California under the name North American Soto School in Los Angeles).
Shōhaku Okumura was born in Osaka, Japan in 1948. He received his education at Komazawa University in Tokyo, Japan, where he studied Zen Buddhism. On December 8, 1970, Okumura was ordained at Antaiji by his teacher Kosho Uchiyama, where he practiced until Uchiyama retired in 1975. He then traveled to the United States, where he co-founded Valley Zendo in Massachusetts and continued Uchiyama's style of zazen practice there until 1981. In that year, he returned to Japan and began translating the writings of Uchiyama and Eihei Dogen from Japanese into English. Prior to founding the Sanshin Zen Community, in 1996, he was a teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1993-1996 and at the Kyoto Soto Zen Center, in Japan.
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