At 105, a Zen master blends East with a bit of L.A
 The Zen master would not stop talking.
, he helped carve out a new incarnation of Zen Buddhism here, mixing traditional meditation practice with teachings tailored
his students: “I will not die until Zen is born in America.”
my dad found Buddhism in the late 1980s at a Zen center in Albuquerque — one of two doZen centers
head crowded with lots of thoughts. He says Zen practice, with its daily practice of meditation, allowed
Sendai, had sent him to Sapporo to study Zen, timing it so he would arrive at the temple
of Buddhist texts. In 1962, two Zen students in California wrote to a large monastery in Japan
as much as his students wanted to learn about Japanese Zen. He took road trips, hiked the Grand Canyon
to Sanfield, Roshi told his followers that if Zen was going to flourish, it was going to have
a one-on-one teaching known as sanZen, Roshi asked Sanfield: “When you’