Danan Henry

Danan Henry
Religion Harada-Yasutani
Education University of California, Berkeley
Personal
Born 1939 (age 76–77)
Senior posting
Based in Zen Center of Denver
Title Roshi
Predecessor Philip Kapleau
Robert Baker Aitken
Religious career
Website www.zencenterofdenver.org/

Michael Danan Henry (born 1939) is an American Roshi in the Harada-Yasutani tradition ("Sanbo Kyodan", a Zen sect derived from both the Rinzai and Sōtō traditions of Japanese Zen), practicing in the Diamond Sangha lineage of Robert Baker Aitken. The founding teacher of the Zen Center of Denver, Henry received Dharma transmission from Philip Kapleau Roshi in 1989 and was subsequently recognized as a Diamond Sangha master by Robert Baker Aitken.[1][2][3]

Danan Roshi created and implemented the Monastery Without Walls training program; the Lotus in the Flame Lay Order; and the "Every Minute Zen" mindfulness practice as abbot and spiritual director of the Zen Center of Denver.

On September 12, 2010, Danan Roshi gave Dharma transmission and appointment of abbacy to Karin Kempe, Ken Morgareidge, and Peggy Sheehan, and retired soon after as abbot of the Zen Center of Denver.

Danan Roshi has since been serving as the teacher of the Old Bones Sangha, a group of senior students who meet periodically for sesshin.

On June 30, 2016, Danan Roshi conferred full Dharma transmission to Rafe Martin in a ceremony at the Rochester Zen Center.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Honolulu Diamond Sangha 2010.
  2. ↑ Ford 2006, p. 159.
  3. ↑ Prebish 1999, p. 19.

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