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Dōgen
was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen Kigen (), Eihei Dōgen (), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (), and Busshō Dentō Kokushi ().
D. T. Suzuki
Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)

Peter Matthiessen
American novelist (1927–2014)
Raicho Hiratsuka
Japanese anarchist feminist (1886–1971)
Shunryu Suzuki
Japanese Buddhist missionary (1904–1971)
Taisen Deshimaru
Japanese Zen Master (1914–1982)
Janwillem van de Wetering
Dutch writer (1931–2008)
Philip Kapleau
Zen Buddhist teacher (1912–2004)

Natalie Goldberg
American writer
Joan Halifax
American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist
Heinrich Dumoulin
German missionary (1905–1995)
Scott Shaw
American actor
Eugen Herrigel
German philosopher (1884–1955)
Brad Warner
American musician and Buddhist priest
Kōshō Uchiyama
Japanese buddhist monk (1912–1998)
Gudō Wafu Nishijima
Japanese Buddhist priest (1919–2014)

Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
American Buddhist monk
Jakushitsu Genkō
Japanese monk and poet
Taizan Maezumi
Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1931–1995)
Joko Beck
US American Zen Teacher (1917–2011)

Ama Samy
Indian Zen master and Jesuit priest
Robert Baker Aitken
Zen teacher, political activist (1917–2010)
Zenkei Shibayama
Japanese Buddhist monk (1894-1974)
Shohaku Okumura
Japanese Buddhist monk

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
German diplomat and psychotherapist (1896–1988)
Kazuaki Tanahashi
Japanese calligrapher (born 1933)
Toni Packer
American writer
David Chadwick
Zen Buddhist writer, Shunryu Suzuki biographer

Claude AnShin Thomas
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Reb Anderson
Zen teacher
Soen Nakagawa
Japanese Buddhist monk
Shōdō Harada
Japanese Rinzai priest and writer
Shin'ichi Hisamatsu
Japanese philosopher
Shigeto Oshida
Japanese Zen Buddhist and Catholic monk