Cynthia Kear

Lineage claims

Teachers and predecessors

• Surei Darlene Cohenwikipedia lineage chart predecessor · source asserted unverified

Students and successors

• Kosei Cynthia Zieglerwikipedia lineage chart predecessor · source asserted unverified
• Betsy Sei Ka Grohwikipedia lineage chart predecessor · source asserted unverified
• Tom Ryuki Hawkinswikipedia lineage chart predecessor · source asserted unverified
• Koshin Steven Tierneywikipedia lineage chart predecessor · source asserted unverified
• Craig Kodo Edelblutwikipedia lineage chart predecessor · source asserted unverified

Relationship labels preserve the meaning used by each source; they are not automatically equivalent to Dharma transmission.

Communities and resources

Affiliations listed by sources

• Great Spirit Sanghalisted center · Great Spirit Sangha San Francisco, CA cynthiakear.com Cynthia Kear studied with Darlene Cohen who ordained her in 2008 and gave her Dharma Transmission in 2010. She is Guiding Teacher for Great Spirit Sangha in San Francisco, Guiding Teacher for Women of the Way Sangha and senior teacher for the Meditation and Recovery Sangha (affiliated with both SFZC and Hartford Street Zen Center. Additionally, and simultaneously, she worked in the field of clinical education most recently serving as Executive Director to a national collaboration dedicated to ameliorating the opioid epidemic. She retired from this position in June 2022. Cynthia, in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, practices as a Monk in the Marketplace.

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