Nyogen Senzaki died on the 7th of May, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. He was a central figure introducing Zen to North America. Not much is known about Senzaki’s early years. He was born sometime in the late nineteenth century in Siberia. His mother was Japanese, his father either Chinese or Russian. Orphaned early on, he was taken in by a Japanese priest and adopted by a shipwright named Senzaki. He was later taken under wing by a Soto... Read more