Podcasts with or about interviewees are listed below (🔊). Many more with others are on the Podcasts page.
Interviews In America
- Robert Aitken (RIP) — Diamond Sangha founder
- Don Allen (RIP) — Grove Press editor of new American poets
- Steve Allen — Issan's heir
- Jonathan Altman — Zen & Tibetan Buddhism
- Peg Anderson — early Los Altos, tea ceremony w/Stocker
- Frank Anderton — Oklahoma lawyer writer
- Anonymous-1 — artist, nurse, Buddhist
- Anonymous-2 — flower
- Anonymous-3 — fellow trouble-maker
- Ann & Jim Armstrong — memories, psychic reading
- Eric Arnow — now (07) in Thailand 🔊
- Tim Aston (RIP) — early student
- Art Atkinson — Transcript of a 1994 tape I received from this down to earth school teacher and Zennie
- A. Beck — with Nancy Roscoe
- Robert Beck (RIP) — with former wife Anna and their son Adam, prior owners of Tassajara 🔊
- Lucy (Bennett) Calhoun — Suzuki, Baker, Ashland Farm
- Ken Berman — young hippie Suzuki student 🔊
- Miriam Bobkoff (RIP) — Passing through ZC in '65
- Catrina Boni — widow of photographer Bob
- Craig Boyan — student of Shunryu Suzuki, devotee of Meher Baba
- Doug Bradle — in Alabama
- Jeff Broadbent — global cooler 🔊 🔊 🔊 🔊
- Dwite Brown — from Zen to Jesus 🔊
- Edward Brown — excerpts from Tomato Blessings, Radish Teachings. Extensive. 🔊 🔊 🔊
- Ron Browning — disciple, Japan
- Tim Buckley (RIP) — Suzuki, Harry Roberts, AmerIndians
- Sterling Bunnell (RIP) — therapist, ecologist
- Del Carlson (RIP) — artist
- Kamala (Cesar) Buckner — dancer 🔊
- Milton Clapp — bipolar Buddhist
- (Georganne Coffee) Annapurna Broffman (RIP) — flamboyant young hippie
- Darlene Cohen (RIP) — Zen priest and therapist in pain management
- Katharine Cook — pioneer student and mother
- Donn D — runner, artist, baker
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg (RIP) — Zen pioneer
- Arthur Deikman (RIP) — writer, psychiatry professor
- Peter DiGesu — artist, Trungpa student too
- Paul Discoe — SR disciple, builder 🔊 🔊
- Ruthie D — Paul D's first wife
- Mike Dixon — early student, artist 🔊
- Margot Doss (RIP) — journalist, advisor to Shunryu Suzuki
- Jack Elias — Suzuki & Trungpa student 🔊
- Rick Fields (RIP) — writer and practitioner
- Jake Fishman — artist and Zennie 🔊
- Tim Ford — carpenter 🔊
- Dana Fraser — translator, author
- Jerry Fuller (RIP) — a great guy gone beyond
- Meg Gawler — Zen, tea, and Vipassana
- Gordon Geist — lives in Norway, worked with Suzuki lectures
- Mike Gilmore (RIP) — artist, card reader
- Allen Ginsberg (RIP) — I plan to find this tape and get the date of the interview (maybe six months before he died)
- Della Goertz (RIP) — 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 (Dianne) Goldschlag — Back when she was still Dianne. One of Suzuki's "granddaughters." 🔊
- Mark Gripman — born in the CIA
- Bob Mipalm Halpern — Suzuki and Trungpa student 🔊 🔊
- Larry Hansen — in the NW and Japan 🔊
- Blanche (RIP) & Lou Hartman (RIP) — former abbess and her Han Shan hubby
- Joko Dave Haselwood (RIP) — early publisher of beat writers who studied with Suzuki in 63 and 64
- Pat Herreshoff — early, steady, older woman student
- Lynn (Hesselbart) Hennelly — now a farmer
- Silas Hoadley (RIP) — close Suzuki disciple 🔊
- Sandy Hollister — Suzuki student, Gengo and Yoshie's 🔊
- Niels Holm (RIP) — eccentric Danish carpenter, sailor, and philosopher
- Irene Horowitz — old-time Suzuki student
- (Cheryl Hughs) Diana Hart — the sangha more than the guru
- Swanzie Sue Isaacson — Suzuki to Adi Da
- Roy Iwake (RIP) — architect, artist, builder
- Ardis Jackson — early ZC mom, student
- Toni (Johansen) McCarty — student and family practitioner 🔊 🔊
- Molly Jones — now an author, continuing her path in Hawaii
- Les Kaye — Suzuki disciple interviewed for zenandbusiness.com 🔊
- Durand Kiefer (RIP) — the old commander and early Los Altos student
- Ken Knabb — of BOPSecrets 🔊
- Arnie Kotler — Buddhist publisher 🔊
- Margaret Kress (RIP) — former nurse, gallery owner, now a Tibetan Buddhist
- Jakusho Bill Kwong — Abbot of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center; one of Suzuki-roshi's earliest students
- Joanne Kyger (RIP) — poet and long time Buddhist
- Stuart Lachs — 67 student at Tassajara and city 🔊
- Lew Lancaster — UCB prof, digital archiving
- Bill Lane (RIP) — man of Zen, books, astrology
- Tara Treasurefield (Pat Lang) (RIP)
- Mark & Yvonne Lewis — humor and insight 🔊
- Dot (Luce) Kostriken — Carmel housewife 🔊
- Daigan David Lueck (RIP) — soldier, actor, priest
- Charles MacDermed (RIP) — philosopher, artist
- Dennis Marshall — Yorkshire editor emails 🔊 🔊
- John Clarke Mason — early Tassajara, iron worker, lover
- Tracy McCallum — from Sokoji to Port Angeles 🔊
- Pat McFarlin — artist
- Dale McKenzie — Zen bio, lawyer with Mt. Source
- Pat McMahon — from Reed to Landscaping 🔊
- Elsie Mitchell (RIP) — founder of the Cambridge Buddhist Association - an article
- Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore (RIP) — Zen Recollections from a post Beat poet, thespian, Muslim
- Carolyn Morton — art institute to ZC 🔊
- Jim Morton in Japan since '73 🔊
- Rick Morton — woodworker, artist 🔊
- David Padwa (RIP) — polymath 🔊
- Loring Palmer (RIP) — SR, Trungpa, Andrew student 🔊
- Tony Patchell — Zen dreams 🔊 🔊
- Rowena (Pattee) Kryder (Leary) (RIP) — artist
- Grahame Petchey (RIP) — Suzuki's 1st US priest
- Pauline Petchey — 1st priest wife, student
- Jerome Peterson (RIP) — early Suzuki student
- Rene Pettit — yoga, LSD etc, Zen
- Louise (Pryor) Welch — first jisha/anja
- Brit Pyland — Suzuki student, keen observer 🔊
- Narcissus Robert Quagliata — stained glass artist 🔊
- Yvonne Rand (RIP) — SR secretary & caretaker 🔊
- Norm Randolph — Suzuki student, Katagiri disciple 🔊
- Chick Reeder — Golfer from Mississippi
- Lew Richmond — SR disciple, teacher, musician 🔊 🔊
- Sue Roberts — a therapist now
- Paul Rosenblum — scholar, cabinet maker, Baker dharma heir and more 🔊 🔊
- Jean Ross (RIP) — An article on one of Suzuki-roshi's earliest and strongest students, a real Buddhist trailblazer 🔊 🔊
- Loly Rosset (RIP) — Eido, Soen, Suzuki, Germany
- Dennis Samson — vintner, teaching seniors zazen 🔊
- Ken Sawyer — Zen priest and sawyer
- Henry Schaeffer (RIP) — Suzuki & Trungpa student
- Peter (RIP) & Jane Schneider — 1st ZC historian, LA Zen 🔊
- Peter Schneider (RIP) interviewing Betty Warren (RIP), Della Goertz (RIP) and Bill Kwong — in 1969 🔊 🔊 🔊
- Josh Schrei — spent the first 10 years of his life at the Rochester Zen Center
- 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 (RIP) — authority on world religions
- Layla (Smith) Bockhorst (RIP) — Marin teacher 🔊
- Gary Snyder — poet, environmentalist, Buddhist
- Jeanie Stearns — memories of early ZC
- John Steiner — peace activist, inner and outer 🔊 🔊
- Will Stocker — early Los Altos, built zendo, with Anderson
- Barton Stone — Remembrances of Suzuki by a peace activist 🔊 🔊
- Teah Strozer — Zen teacher, musician
- Albert (Mickey) Stunkard (RIP) — doctor and Zen teacher
- Janet Sturgeon — Suzuki & Tatsugami student
- Katherine Thanas (RIP) — once artist, founder Santa Cruz ZC
- Steve Tipton — sociologist, theologian 🔊
- Jack Tjeerdsma (RIP) — banker, manager, mediator
- Ed Tripp — draft resister 🔊
- Seiyo Tsuji — a Japanese/American friend of Shunryu Suzuki in America
- Jack Van Allen (RIP) — Buddhist artist
- Audrey (Walter) Robinson (RIP) — stoneworker
- Bob Walter (RIP) — Suzuki, Katagiri, Soen, Kerouac, more
- Betty Warren (RIP) — one of the first of Suzuki's students, the third of the "loyal ladies," the trio of Betty, Jean, and Della 🔊
- Bob Watkins (RIP) — 1st Tassajara work leader 🔊
- Judith Weaver — from Japanese Rinzai to SFZC 🔊
- 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 (RIP) — Beat poet, Zen priest
- Stanley White (RIP) — priest of the Taos Zendo
- Rick Wicks' SFZC Stories sent from Sweden 🔊
- Margot Wilkie (RIP) — octogenarian former NY actress and early explorer into Buddhism
- JJ Wilson — scholar, Phil's wife, keen observer 🔊 🔊
- Phillip Wilson (RIP) — early Suzuki disciple
- Liz (Wolf) Spada — Suzuki student Christian 🔊
- Tom Wright — Uchiyama student, translator
- Reuven (Roovane) Ben Yuhmin (Robert Front) Upasama — gardener of Tassajara, been in Taiwan since the early 70's 🔊 🔊
Shunryu Suzuki — interviews with, CV, lectures by Shunryu Suzuki on his life
- Shunryu Suzuki (RIP) 🔊 🔊
Interviews with Japanese in Japan and the US
- Yasumasa Amada — of the Takakusayamakai, the High Grass Mt. Group
- Three Members of the Takakusayamakai — (Yasumasa Amada, Yasuo Suetsune, Sadayoshi Asaoka), Hoitsu Suzuki, and Mitsu Suzuki — Interviewed by DC in Yaizu, Japan, April 1994
- Genichi Amano — Shunryu Suzuki's godfather at Rinsoin after the war ***
- Fred Harriman — on the Suzuki family 🔊
- Tomoe Katagiri — widow of Dainin Katagiri
- Kazumitsu and Emi Kato — 1st assistant priest to Suzuki in America and wife
- Taro Kato — son of one of Shunryu Suzuki's best friends and their trip to Manchuria
- Haruyoshi Kusada — senior Jodo Shinshu priest
- Taizan Maezumi (RIP) — founder of LAZC
- Toshiaki Nakahara — friend of Otohiro Suzuki
- Hakusan Kojun Noiri (RIP) — revered Soto priest ***
- Koshin Ogui — Jodo Shinshu priest
- Nanao Sakaki (RIP) — godfather of Japanese Hippies
- Eido Tai Shimano (RIP)
- Aiko (Suzuki) Uchiyama — Shunryu's little sister
- Hoitsu Suzuki — Eldest son and dharma heir of Shunryu Suzuki
- Mitsu Suzuki (RIP) — Widow of Shunryu Suzuki
- Otohiro Suzuki — Shunryu Suzuki's youngest son
- Yasuko (Suzuki) Oishi — April 1994 interview with Suzuki Roshi's eldest daughter
- Kazuaki Tanahashi — artist and scholar in US 🔊
- Fumiyo Uchiyama — physicist and Sokoji sitter
- Masaji Yamada
- Ryuho Yamada (RIP) — wildman open-hearted monk
- Masao Yamamura — A young neighbor of Shunryu Suzuki's in Japan
*** = Interviews conducted in 1971 and 72 by Peter and Jane Schneider, Karl and Fumiko Bielefeldt, with the later two translating. I'm now (8-13-11) checking to make sure all of those interviews are on cuke. They were re-assessed with comments added by Fred Harriman in the late nineties. - dc