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Zentatsu Richard Baker (born March 30 1936) born Richard Dudley Baker is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi) the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum (Johanneshof) in Germany’s Black Forest. As the American Dharma heir to Shunryu Suzuki Baker assumed abbottship of the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) shortly before Suzuki’s death in 1971.
