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Jan 18, 1939 Brooklyn, New York, United States Died on 04 Nov 2018 (aged 79)
American Buddhist monk
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About Bernie Glassman
- Bernie Glassman (January 18, 1939 – November 4, 2018) was an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in 1980.
- In 1996, he co-founded the Zen Peacemaker Order with his late wife Sandra Jishu Holmes.
- Glassman was a Dharma successor of the late Taizan Maezumi-roshi, and gave inka and Dharma transmission to several people. Glassman was known as a pioneer of social enterprise, socially engaged Buddhism and "Bearing Witness Retreats" at Auschwitz and on the streets.According to author James Ishmael Ford, in 2006 he ...transferred his leadership of the White Plum Asanga to his Dharma brother Merzel Roshi and has formally "disrobed," renouncing priesthood in favor of serving as a lay teacher.
