Gil Fronsdal is a dual-lineage teacher with full transmission in both Sōtō Zen (from Sojun Mel Weitsman of Berkeley Zen Center) and Theravada vipassana. A Stanford-trained Buddhist scholar, his English translation of the Dhammapada (Shambhala, 2005) is widely used in academic and dharma settings. He founded the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City and the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz; his Audio Dharma archive is one of the largest free dharma collections online.
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Gil Fronsdal
Theravada·Theravada (Burmese-Indian vipassana) · Sōtō Zen (dharma transmission from Mel Weitsman)
Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City, CaliforniaBorn1954, Norway
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LanguagesEnglish · Pali
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