Fischer, Norman, 1946-

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Name (Latin)
Fischer, Norman, 1946-
Date of birth
1946-11-09
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 40928611
Wikidata: Q8073522
Library of congress: n 88121236
BGU10: 000345377
Sources of Information
  • His The devices, 1987:t.p. (Norman Fischer) about the author (b. in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1946; dir., Green Gulch Zen Ctr., San Francisco)
  • His Like a walk through a park, c1980:t.p. (Norman Fischer)
  • Opening to you, 2001:CIP t.p. (Norman Fischer)
  • Boorstein, Sylvia. Solid ground, 2011:eCIP t.p. (Norman Fischer)
  • Info. from pub., Jan. 14, 2011:(Norman Fischer, b. Nov. 9, 1946)
  • Training in compaassion, 2013
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Wikipedia description:

Zoketsu Norman Fischer is an American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988. Fischer served as co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1995–2000, after which he founded the Everyday Zen Foundation in 2000, a network of Buddhist practice group and related projects in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Fischer has published more than twenty-five books of poetry and non-fiction, as well as numerous poems, essays and articles in Buddhist magazines and poetry journals.

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