Ryushin Paul Haller, a Soto Zen roshi, is the current co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center—a position he shares with Myogen Steve Stücky and has held since 2003. Leaving his homeland of Belfast in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, Haller spent time in Russia, Afghanistan and Japan. He then went to Thailand for two years and became a Buddhist monk for six months. Coming to California in 1974, he entered Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and was...
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Date of birth:
- 1947 (age 62 years)
