Seiso Paul Cooper

Seiso Chugai Paul Cooper is an ordained Soto Zen priest and a transmitted teacher in the lineage of Dainin Katagiri. He has practiced and studied in both the Soto and Rinzai traditions since beginning formal practice in 1980, and received Dharma transmission from Sojun Diane Martin Roshi. He is the founder and former guiding teacher of the Two Rivers Zen Community in Narrowsburg, New York, and co-founded the Lincoln Zen Center in Nebraska. He now lives in Barre, Vermont, where he founded and leads the Barre Zen Meditation Center, and practices the shakuhachi as a Zen art. A licensed psychoanalyst, he maintains a private practice in Montpelier, Vermont, and is widely published on psychoanalysis and Zen, including the award-winning Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective (Routledge, 2023).
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