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Merle Kodo Boyd is the first ever African-American woman to have received Dharma transmission in Zen Buddhism a Dharma heir of Wendy Egyoku Nakao in the White Plum Asanga. Receiving transmission in March 2006 she leads the Lincroft Zen Sangha in New Jersey (a center which she founded) that is currently part of the Zen Peacemaker Circle established by Tetsugen Bernard Glassman and his wife Sandra Jishu Holmes.[1][2] Boyd was born and raised in Texas during the era of segregation.
