Lion's Roar

SHINZEN YOUNG

I SOMETIMES SAY: “I’m a Jewish-American Buddhist teacher who got turned on to comparative mysticism by an Irish-Catholic priest and who has developed a Burmese-Japanese fusion practice inspired by the spirit of quantified science.”

I was born in 1944 in Los Angeles. My interest in Asia began at the age

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