Cheri Huber
TitleWriter
Teacher
Personal
Bornc. 1944 (age 79–80)
ReligionBuddhism
SchoolSōtō
LineageUnknown
Senior posting
Based inZen Monastery Peace Center
Websitecherihuber.com

Cheri Huber (born c. 1944) is an American meditation teacher in the Sōtō School of Zen Buddhism tradition.[1]

Biography

Huber is the founder and guiding teacher of Zen Monastery Peace Center located in Murphys, California,[2] which was constructed in 1993. The plot of land was purchased in 1987, with 320 acres (1.3 km2). She was raised in the San Francisco Bay area and claims to have studied Zen under Jay DuPont.[3] Writer Anna Kaplan says that Huber had once desired to live in a cabin in the woods in isolation of the world, but was encouraged by another teacher to teach Zen.[4] The name of this teacher is not named. She founded her first Zen center in 1983 in Mountain View, California, which has since moved to Palo Alto under the name Palo Alto Zen Center.[5][6][7] In 1997, Huber founded Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service.[2]

There have been some questions raised about her authority to teach Zen from some members of the Zen community. Author and ordained Buddhist priest James Ishmael Ford writes of her, "Perhaps the most prominent of apparently self-declared teachers is the widely read author and meditation teacher Cheri Huber. Huber may have studied briefly with Jay DuPont...but it is not clear that she was authorized to teach by him or anyone else as a Zen teacher."[3]

Bibliography

As co-author

Audio

DVD

See also

References

  1. ^ "Finding My Religion / Buddhist writer and teacher Cheri Huber says we all have plenty of reasons to give thanks". SF Gate. 20 November 2006. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  2. ^ a b "From Cheri Huber". Living Compassion. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. pp. 79. ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
  4. ^ "Murphys retreat lets seekers get away from it all". The Record (Stockton). Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  5. ^ Brady, Mark (2003). The Wisdom of Listening. Wisdom Publications. p. 304. ISBN 0-86171-355-9.
  6. ^ Kaplan, Anna (16 December 2006). "Murphys retreat lets seekers get away from it all". Recordnet. Retrieved 12 February 2008.
  7. ^ Miller, David Ian (20 November 2006). "Finding My Religion". SF Gate. Retrieved 12 February 2008.

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