Charlotte Joko Beck

Charlotte Joko Beck is a renowned Zen teacher, co-founder of the Ordinary Mind Zen School and former head of the San Diego Zen Center. In the 1960s, while living in San Diego, she began her Zen practice with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. Later she went on to train with Hakuun Yasutani Roshi and Soen Nakagawa Roshi. In 1983 she became the 3rd Dharma heir of Hakuyu Maezumi Roshi of the Zen Center of Los …