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David Schneider

TENSHO DAVID SCHNEIDER began Zen practice in 1970 and was ordained as a Zen priest in 1977. He held the position of acharya (senior teacher) in the Shambhala International community from 1996 to 2019. He is coeditor with Kazuaki Tanahashi of Essential Zen , and author of Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen . He lives in Cologne, Germany.