Rafe Martin
Dharma Name: Jnan
Title: Roshi
Preferred Name: Rafe
Organization: Endless Path Zendo
Lineage: Kapleau
Rafe Jnan Martin, teacher at Endless Path Zendo, began formal Zen practice in 1970. A disciple of Philip Kapleau, after Kapleau Roshi's retirement he practiced with Robert Aitken Roshi. In 2002 Rafe began working with Danan Henry Roshi, founding teacher of the Zen Center of Denver, a Kapleau Dharma Heir and a Diamond Dharma Master. Rafe received lay ordination in 2009, inka (recognition of completion of the Diamond Sangha koan curriculum) and permission to teach in 2011, and Dharma transmission as an independent teacher and heir of Danan Roshi in 2016. An award-winning author and storyteller with an emphasis on mythic traditions, he is dedicated to presenting Zen in a lay, non-residential, non-institutional setting.
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