Issan Dorsey information

Issan Dorsey
Issan Dorsey
Title	Roshi
Personal
Born	Tommy Dorsey Jr.; March 7, 1933; Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Died	September 6, 1990 (aged 57); San Francisco, California, U.S.
Religion	Buddhism
School	Sōtō
Senior posting
Teacher	Shunryu Suzuki; Zentatsu Richard Baker
Based in	Hartford Street Zen Center
Successor	Steven Allen

Issan Dorsey (March 7, 1933 — September 6, 1990), born Tommy Dorsey Jr., was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher, Dharma heir of Zentatsu Richard Baker and onetime abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center (HSZC) located in the Castro district of San Francisco, California. Earlier in his life, he had worked as a prostitute and a drag queen, and had struggled at times with drug addiction. He died of complications from AIDS in 1990.

He established the Maitri Hospice at HSZC for students and friends dying of AIDS during the spread of the epidemic in the 1980s—the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in the United States. Numbers of his students and colleagues have observed that Dorsey was the embodiment of a bodhisattva.^[1]

^ Whitney, Kobai Scott (March 1998). "The Lone Mountain Path: The Example of Issan Dorsey". Shambhala Sun. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2008-03-02.

[whitney-1] Whitney, Kobai Scott (March 1998). "The Lone Mountain Path: The Example of Issan Dorsey". Shambhala Sun. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2008-03-02.

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