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Zen Master Ji Haeng

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Zen Master Ji Haeng
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Thomas Pastor in 2023
BornThomas Pastor
March 27, 1946
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🎓 Alma materKwan Um School of Zen
Berklee College of Music
💼 Occupation
Zen Master, musician
Known forZen Center of Las Vegas (founder)

Thomas Pastor, also known as Zen Master Ji Haeng,[1] (born March 27, 1946) is an American Zen Master, musician, and founder of the Zen Center of Las Vegas.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Music career

Pastor, an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, is a multi-instrumentalist.[2][3][5][6] His musical abilities encompass a range of instruments, including the piccolo, flute, alto flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, as well as soprano, alto, tenor, baritone saxophones, and the Japanese shakuhachi flute.[2][3][6] He has performed professionally alongside recording and show business luminaries such as Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Patti La Belle, and Sammy Davis Jr.[5][6] [9] He contributed to the music community in Las Vegas by serving as the Secretary Treasurer of the Musician's Union of Las Vegas, Local 369, for twenty-three years, [10][11] and was featured in the book A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album as “Tom Pastor.”[12]

Zen training and career

Pastor began his formal study in the Kwan Um School of Zen in the late 1980s at the Dharma Zen Center in Los Angeles.[13][14][3][5][6] He became a Dharma Teacher in 1994.[15] Pastor was the last United States student to receive inka directly from Zen Master Seung Sahn on April 6, 2002.[13][2][3][5][6][16][17]

In addition to his role as Abbot of the Zen Center in Las Vegas, Nevada,[18][19][16][20] Ji Haeng also served as Guiding Teacher of the Isthmus Zen Community in Madison, Wisconsin for fifteen years.[13][2][3][5][16] He also served as Guiding Teacher at the No Mind Zen Center in Vancouver, British Columbia and Prairyerth Zen Center in Topeka, Kansas.[4][5][6][16]

Pastor taught an Introduction to Zen Buddhism course at the University of Nevada until his retirement from that position.[3][16] He initiated a zen meditation program at the Federal Prison Camp, Nellis, which achieved the highest participation rate of any religious program at the facility.[2][3][5][16] The prison was subsequently closed in 2006.[2][3][5][16]

On April 5, 2014, Zen Master Wu Kwang granted formal Dharma transmission to Thomas Pastor,[2] thereby establishing him as a lineage holder in the Kwan Um School of Zen.[13][3][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Las Vegas Zen center helps attendees clear their minds and focus on the present". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Zen Master Ji Haeng". 2 August 2016.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 "Teaching Library". Kwan Um School of Zen. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Zen Master Ji Haeng leads a chant while playing the Moktak on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2016, at the Chaiya Meditation Monastery where the Zen Center is currently housed in Las Vegas. (Rachel Aston/Las Veg …". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "Zen Master Ji Haeng (Thom Pastor)".
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 "Guiding Teachers | Isthmus Zen Community of Madison, Wisconsin". isthmuszencommunity.org. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  7. ↑ "The Zen Center of Las Vegas faces an uncertain future – Las Vegas Weekly". Lasvegas Weekly. 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  8. ↑ "Zen in Las Vegas – Las Vegas Sun Newspaper". lasvegassun.com. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  9. ↑ Langdon, Joseph (January 2, 2013). ""We Just Had to Ask"". Desert Companion (37): |page= 44 – 45 – via Nevada Public Radio.
  10. ↑ Potters, Merilyn (1996-04-02). "Stress, jobs, traffic – for local Zen followers, it's mind over things that don't matter – Las Vegas Sun Newspaper". lasvegassun.com. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  11. ↑ Follett, Antoinette (October 2002). ""Paying Attention To Small Things"". International Musician. 100 (10): 24.
  12. ↑ Kahn, Ashley (2002). A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, foreword by Elvin Jones (1st ed.). USA: Viking Penguin. pp. |p. 157. Search this book on
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Zen Master Ji Haeng".
  14. ↑ "Our Teachers". Kwan Um School of Zen. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  15. ↑ "Methow Zen Group : Northwest Dharma Association". northwestdharma.org. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 "Zen Master Ji Haeng – Zen Center of Las Vegas". Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  17. ↑ Pastor, Thomas. Kessel, Ken, ed. "Transmission Ceremony for Zen Master Ji Haeng" (PDF). Primary Point. Kwan Um School of Zen. 31 (2): |pp.=12–13. Unknown parameter |orig-date= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ "The Garden of Flowers and Weeds – MonkfishMonkfish". Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  19. ↑ "Winter Kyol Che 2016 January 4th – April 1st". Providence Zen Center. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  20. ↑ "Columnist Susan Snyder: Meditation is worth a thought – Las Vegas Sun Newspaper". lasvegassun.com. 2002-12-20. Retrieved 2023-07-27.


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