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•  Shunryu Suzuki

  Shunryu Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆) (May 18, 1904 - December 4, 1971) was a Sōtō Zen roshi (priest) who popularized Zen Buddhism in the United States, particularly around San Francisco. Born in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan, Suzuki was occasionally mistaken for the Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki, to which Suzuki would reply, "No, he's the big Suzuki, I'm the little Suzuki."

  

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•  Alan Watts

  Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness.

  

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•  Naropa University

  Naropa University is a private American liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. Naropa describes itself as Buddhist-inspired, ecumenical and nonsectarian rather than Buddhist. Naropa promotes non-traditional activities like meditation to supplement traditional learning approaches.

  

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•  D. T. Suzuki

  Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木大拙貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, October 18, 1870 – July 12, 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature.

  

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•  Nyogen Senzaki

  Nyogen Senzaki (千崎 如幻, 1876-May 7, 1958) was a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents of Zen Buddhism in the United States.

  

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•  Buddhism in the United States

  Buddhism is a prominent religion and cultural concept in the United States accounting for 0.7% of the US population, making it the fourth largest belief-set behind Christianity, Judaism and Nonreligious, according to a 2007 Pew Research Center survey. Many American Buddhists are Asian Americans as well as a large number of converts.. The U.S.

  

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•  Providence Zen Center

  Providence Zen Center (PZC) is the international headquarters for the Kwan Um School of Zen (KUSZ), the first Zen center established by Seung Sahn in the United States in October 1972. The PZC offers residential training where students and teachers live together under one roof, which was one of the hallmarks of Seung Sahn's philosophy concerning Zen practice in his organization.

  

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•  Kwan Um School of Zen

  The Kwan Um School of Zen (관음선종회) (KUSZ) is an international school of Zen centers and groups, founded in 1983 by Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim. The school's international head temple is located at the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island, which was founded in 1972 shortly after Seung Sahn first came to the United States (then in Providence).

  

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•  Kunzang Palyul Choling

  Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC) is a center for Buddhist study and practice in the Nyingma tradition. Founded as the Center for Discovery and New Life in 1985, and then given to His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and renamed by him in 1987, KPC was Penor Rinpoche's first Dharma Center in the US.

  

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•  Buddhist Churches of America

  The Buddhist Churches of America is the United States branch of the Honpa Hongan-ji (also known as Nishi-Honganji) sub-sect of Jōdo Shinshū ("True Pure Land School") Buddhism. Jodo Shinshu is also popularly known as Shin Buddhism. The B.C.A. is one of several overseas kyodan ("districts") belonging to the Nishi ("Western") Hongwan-ji. The other kyodan are South America, Hawaiʻi, Canada, and Europe.

  

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•  Yosemite National Park

  Yosemite National Park is a national park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of 761,266 acres (308,073 ha) and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain. Yosemite is visited by over 3.5 million people each year, many of whom only spend time in the seven square miles (18 km) of Yosemite Valley.

  

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•  Gabber

  Gabber, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" is an Amsterdam slang word that means "buddy" or "friend". Although in the late 1980s a house variant from Detroit first reached Amsterdam, it was the producers and DJs from Rotterdam who evolved it into a harder house variant which is today know as "Gabber" style. The specific sound of Rotterdam was also created as a reaction to the house scene of Amsterdam which was seen as more "snobby and pretentious".

  

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•  Bob & Mary Schindler

  

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•  Al Ba'ith

  

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•  Breakin' 2

  

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