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Interviews & email & Letters & Memoirs and a few articles based on interviews or research
With, from, about folks on Suzuki Roshi and their practice and lives. Most folks herein were students of Suzuki but not all. The criteria for inclusion in this section is that one was around the ZC during the Suzuki era or has some knowledge of it or some sort of connection to it. My goal is to get a broad history of that time and place and those folks that centered around Shunryu Suzuki. Here, little by little, I plan to post interviews, conversations, memories recorded in letters, email, phone notes, and on tape of Suzuki-roshi and his times by students, friends, and relatives in Japan and America conducted and gathered by me and others through the years. I have thousands of pages on disc and paper and some untranscribed tapes at any given time and keep getting new material and will be adding from all that to this section after editing quickly.. Some will be long and others are short, some more carefully edited than others. Corrections solicited. Donations and any assistance accepted. - DC

Donald Allen - Grove Press editor of new American poets.(RIP)
Steve Allen - Issan's heir
Frank Anderton - Oklahoma lawyer writer.
Annapurna Broffman (Georganne Coffee) - flamboyant young hippie (RIP)
Eric Arnow - now (07 )in Thailand
Art Atkinson--Transcript of a 1994 tape I received from this down to earth school teacher and Zennie.
Anna Beck - with Nancy Roscoe
Robert Beck - with former wife Anna and their son Adam. Prior owners of Tassajara. (RIP)
Miriam Bobkoff, Impressions of passing through ZC in '65.
Doug Bradle in Alabama
Jeff Broadbent, global cooler
Dwite Brown, from Zen to Jesus.
Ed Brown, excerpts from Tomato Blessings, Radish Teachings. Extensive.
Kamala Cesar Buckner, dancer.
Milton Clapp - bipolar Buddhist
Darlene Cohen, Zen priest and therapist in pain management.
Kathy Cook, pioneer student and mother.
Ananda (Claude) Dalenberg - Zen pioneer.
Arthur Deikman, writer, psychiatry professor.
Paul Disco - SR disciple, builder
Margot Patterson Doss, journalist, advisor to Shunryu Suzuki.(RIP)
Jack Elias, Suzuki & Trungpa student
Jake Fishman, artist and Zennie.
Jerry Fuller, a great guy gone beyond. (RIP)
Michael Gilmore, artist, card reader.

Alan Ginsberg,--I plan to find this tape and get the date of the interview (maybe six months before he died.) (RIP)

Della Goertz, A brief chat with one of Suzuki's first students, still living next door to the SFZC Page St. Building. - October, 1994
Eva Goldschied, an old-timer still practicing at Sonoma Mt. Zen Center.
Daya Goldschlag--Back when she was still Dianne. One of Suzuki's "granddaughters."
Mark Gripman, born in the CIA.
Robert Halpern, Suzuki and Trungpa student.
Larry Hansen - in the NW and Japan.
Blanche & Lou Hartman, former abbess and her Han Shan hubby.
Dave Haselwood, an early publisher of beat writers who studied with Suzuki in 63 and 64.

Lynn Hennelly (Hesselbart)-now a farmer

Silas Hoadley, close Suzuki disciple.

Niels Holm, the eccentric Danish carpenter, sailor, and philosopher.

Niels Holm II, long and a ride.
Irene Horowitz, old-time Suzuki student.
Roy Iwaki, architect, artist, builder.

Ardis Jackson, early ZC mom, student

Molly Jones, now an author, continuing her path in Hawaii.

Les Kay, Suzuki disciple interviewed for zenandbusiness.com

Fran Keller, artist, nurse, Buddhist.

Durand Kiefer, the old commander and early Los Altos student. (RIP)

Ken Knabb of BOPSecrets

Arnie Kotler, Buddhist publisher.

Maggie Kress, former nurse, gallery owner, now a Tibetan Buddhist.

Rowena Pattee Kryder, artist.

Jakusho Bill Kwong-roshi, Abbot of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center; one of Suzuki-roshi's earliest students.
Joanne Kyger, poet and long time Buddhist
Stuart Lachs, '67 student at Tass and city.
Lew Lancaster, UCB prof, digital archiving
Bill Lane, man of Zen, books, astrology. (RIP)
Mark & Yvonne Lewis, humor and insight.
Charles MacDermed, philosopher, artist.
Dennis Marshall, Yorkshire editor emails.
Clarke Mason, early Tass, iron worker, lover.
Toni McCarty, student and family practitioner.
Elsie Mitchell, founder of the Cambridge Buddhist Association - an article.
Daniel Abdal-Havy Moore - Zen Recollections from a post Beat poet, thespian, Muslim.
Tony Patchell - Zen dreams
Grahame Petchey, Suzuki's 1st US priest
Pauline Petchey, 1st priest wife, student.
Yvonne Rand - SR secretary & caretaker
Lew Richmond, SR disciple, teacher, musician
Sue Roberts, A therapist now, she remembers back.
Audrey Robinson (Walter) - stoneworker
Paul Rosenblum, scholar, cabinet maker, Baker dharma heir and more.
Jean E. Ross--Surpassing the Clouds
An article on one of Suzuki-roshi's earliest and strongest students, a real Buddhist trailblazer. (RIP)
Elizabeth Sawyer, fellow trouble-maker, still a good friend and neighbor
Peter & Jane Schneider, 1st ZC historian, LA Zen
Paul Shippee, Civil Engineer, Actor, Suzuki and Trungpa student
Bill Shurtleff, soy man.
David Silva, Monterey firefighter to therapist.
Bill Smith, carpenter, Los Altos student
Huston Smith, authority on world religions.
Jeanie Stearns, memories of early ZC
Barton Stone, Rememb of Suzuki by a peace activist
J*anet S*turg*eon, Suzuki & Tatsugami student.
Seiyo Tsuji, a Japanese/American friend of Shunryu Suzuki in America.
Jack Van Allen, Buddhist artist.
Betty Warren, one of the first of Suzuki's students, the third of the "loyal ladies," the trio of Betty, Jean, and Della. (RIP)
Steve Weintraub - priest and therapist.
Sojun Mel Weitsman--Two 1995 interviews with one of Suzuki-roshi's disciples, now (May,1999) abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center.
Philip Whalen - Beat poet, Zen priest.(RIP)
Stan White - priest of the Taos Zendo.
Margot Wilkie - octogenarian former NY actress and early explorer into Buddhism et al. (RIP)

Rick Wicks - SFZC Stories

JJ Wilson - scholar, Phil's wife, keen observer

Phillip Wilson - early Suzuki disciple

Liz Wolf-Spada - Suzuki student Christian

Reuven Ben Yuhmin - gardener of Tass who's been in Taiwan since the early 70's.

Shunryu on Shunryu - interviews with, CV, lectures by Shunryu Suzuki on his life

Yasumasa Amada of the Takakusayamakai, the High Grass Mt. Group.

Genichi Amano--Shunryu Suzuki's godfather at Rinsoin after the war.

Tomoe Katagiri, widow of Dainin Katagiri.

Taro Kato, the son of one of Shunryu Suzuki's best friends and their trip to Manchuria.

Kazumitsu and Emi Kato, He's the 1st asst. priest to Suzuki in America - and more.

Taizan Maezumi, founder of LAZC. (RIP)

Kojun Noiri, revered Soto priest

Koshin Ogui, Jodo Shinshu priest

Nanao Sakaki, godfather of Japanese Hippies

Eido Shimano Roshi

Hoitsu Suzuki--Eldest son and dharma heir of Shunryu Suzuki.
Oldest interview - 1971 and/or '72
1994 interview at Rinso-in by DC
1995 summary of discussions by Fred Harriman

Mitsu Suzuki--Widow of Shunryu Suzuki.
Interviews by DC in US, Sept.93, Feb.96.
Interview by DC, April '94 in Japan.
Interview on her life by Kazuaki Tanahashi
On her life with Suzuki-roshi by Tanahashi
More from Japan, April '94 by DC

Otohiro Suzuki, Shunryu Suzuki's youngest son
Yasuko (Suzuki) Oishi Comes to Visit
April 1994 interview with Suzuki Roshi's eldest daughter.
Fred Harriman on the Suzuki family
Three Members of the Takakusayamakai (Yasumasa Amada, Yasuo Suetsune, Sadayoshi Asaoka), Hoitsu Suzuki, and Mitsu Suzuki. Interviewed by DC in Yaizu, Japan, April, 1994.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, artist and scholar in US.
Masaji Yamada, a sponsor of Rinsoin. Interviewed and translated by Kyoto Furuhashi.
Letter from Mr. Yamada to DC-translated by Shizuko Takatsuka
Ryuho Yamada, wildman open-hearted monk. (RIP)

Masao Yamamura
A young neighbor of Shunryu Suzuki's in Japan.

As they say in scholarly papers, these interviews are NOT FOR CITATION without checking with me. There are various types of errors and misunderstandings in them that have not been fixed unless so noted.

Eternal thanks to Liz Tuomi who has transcribed many interviews herein for me and to others such as Richard Speel and Layla Bockhorst who did this work in the past. Is there anyone I'm forgetting? - DC 4/13/04