Cheri Huber

Cheri Huber
School Sōtō
Lineage Unknown
Personal
Born c. 1944
Senior posting
Based in Zen Monastery Peace Center
Title Writer
Teacher
Religious career
Website cherihuber.com

Cheri Huber (born c. 1944) is an American meditation teacher. Although she is not officially affiliated with or sanctioned to teach by the Sōtō School of Zen Buddhism, she claims association with that 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 likely studied Zen for some time 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 indicated. 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 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. 2006-11-20. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "From Cheri Huber". Living Compassion. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
  3. 1 2 Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. p. 79. ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
  4. "Murphys retreat lets seekers get away from it all". The Record (Stockton). Retrieved May 13, 2013.
  5. Brady, Mark (2003). The Wisdom of Listening. Wisdom Publications. p. 304. ISBN 0-86171-355-9.
  6. Kaplan, Anna (2006-12-16). "Murphys retreat lets seekers get away from it all". Recordnet. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
  7. Miller, David Ian (2006-11-20). "Finding My Religion". SF Gate. Retrieved 2008-02-12.

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