Shōhaku Okumura

Shōhaku Okumura
Shōhaku Okumura in 2006
Title	Priest
Personal life
Born	(1948-06-22) June 22, 1948 Osaka, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Spouse	Yūko Okumura
Children	Yōko and Masaki
Education	Komazawa University
Religious life
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Sōtō
Senior posting
Based in	Sanshin Zen Community
Predecessor	Kosho Uchiyama
Successor	Hōkō Karnegis
Students Shōryū Bradley, Dōryu Cappelli, Kōshin Cherin, Chikō Corona, Gyōetsu Epifanìa, Hōkō Karnegis, Shōju Mahler, Denshō Quintero, Shōtai de la Rosa, Eidō Reinhart

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Shōhaku Okumura (奥村正博, born June 22, 1948) is a Japanese Sōtō Zen priest and the founder and abbot of the Sanshin Zen Community located in Bloomington, Indiana, where he and his family currently live. From 1997 until 2010, Okumura also served as director of the Sōtō Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco, California, which is an administrative office of the Sōtō school of Japan.