Isshō Fujita

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Isshō Fujita (藤田 一照, Fujita Isshō, b. 18 April 1954) was born in Niihama, Ehime, Japan and was head teacher at Valley Zendo, a Sōtō Zen practice center in Charlemont, Massachusetts, USA.^[1] Fujita had done studies in child psychology at Tokyo University Graduate School, but abandoned them and became a Zen monk. At the age of twenty-nine, on 8 December, Fujita was ordained a Zen priest, along with Ryōdō Yamashita, by Kōhō Watanabe at Antai-ji temple.

In 1987, Fujita assumed the role of abbot at Valley Zendo, where he lived until his return to Japan in 2005.

2010 - 2018, he was the Director of the Soto Zen International Center.

• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

• J'Lit | Authors : Issho Fujita | Books from Japan (in English)
• Buddhism 3.0: A Philosophical Investigation (Studies in Japanese Philosophy) : Isshō Fujita, Hitoshi Nagai, Ryōdō Yamashita ISBN 979-8782386412

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