The teachers at the Hidden Valley Zen Center
Mitra Bishop Roshi
MITRA BISHOP ROSHI, senior teacher at HVZC, is also the founder of Mountain Gate-Sanmonji in northern NM. She first encountered the practice of Buddhism while living in Asia and began practicing Zen in 1974 while living in Turkey, commuting to the Rochester Zen Center for sesshin. Later she moved to Rochester to do full time training at the Rochester Zen Center with Roshi Philip Kapleau.
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SOZUI SCHUBERT SENSEI, was born in Hildesheim, Germany, in 1965 and after receiving a Master’s degree in architecture in Munich, she went to Japan in search of an authentic Zen master. She found her teacher in Harada Shodo-roshi, abbot of Sogen-ji Monastery in Okayama, Japan, and after a short return to Germany she returned to Sogen-ji for full time training and remained there for the next 20 years.
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