Reb Anderson
Reb Anderson | |
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Anderson in 2007 | |
| Title | Zen Master |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Harold Anderson 1943 (age 82–83) Mississippi, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Soto Zen |
| Lineage | Shunryu Suzuki |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | San Francisco Zen Center Green Gulch Farm Zen Center |
| Predecessor | Zentatsu Richard Baker |
| Successor | Ananda Claude Dalenberg, Zengyu Paul Discoe, Sobun Katherine Thanas, Chikudo Jerome Petersen, Jiko Linda Cutts, Jakujo Gary McNabb, Furyu Nancy Schroeder, Myo Lahey, Taigen Dan Leighton, Meiya Wender, Leslie James, Setsuan Gaelyn Godwin, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, Taiyo Lipscomb, Kōkyō Henkel, Gentaku Susan O'Connell, Korin Nyuyu Charlie Porkorny, Shingan Thiemo Blank |
| Website | www.rebanderson.org |
Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson (born 1943) is an American Zen Buddhist teacher in the Sōtō Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a senior dharma teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center and at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, California, where he lived for many years. According to author James Ishmael Ford, "Reb Anderson is one of the most prominent of contemporary Western Zen teachers."