In 1980, they lived in Japan for a year and a half on a Japan / U. S. cultural exchange fellowship where they studied Buddhism with Zen Master Daien Tanaka.

Of all the disciplines that I studied, practiced, learned, Zen was the essential one.

He was brought up as a Catholic, studied Zen / Taoism for 6 years, and in 2005 returned to a non-denominational Christian church.

Gere first studied Zen Buddhism under Kyozan Joshu Sasaki.

After having studied Zen for five or six years, Gere traveled to Nepal in 1978 with the Brazilian painter, Sylvia Martins where he met many Tibetan monks and lamas.

Haushofer may have been a short-term student of Gurdjieff, that he had studied Zen Buddhism, and that he had been initiated at the hands of Tibetan lamas, although these notions are debated.

Suzuki studied at Komazawa University, the Sōtō Zen university in Tokyo.

Here Shunryu studied a very different kind of Zen, one that promoted the attainment of satori through the concentration on koans through zazen.

When Tokimune died, Bukko said he had been a bodhisattva, looked at people's welfare, betrayed no signs of joy or anger and studied Zen so that he reached enlightenment.

She was raised in the San Francisco Bay area and likely studied Zen for some time under Jay DuPont.

Huber may have studied briefly with Jay DuPont ... but it is not clear that she was authorized to teach by him or anyone else as a Zen teacher.

Before ever having tested his hand as a military commander, Seosan was a first-rate Seon ( Zen ) master and the author of a number of important religious texts, the most important of which is probably his " Seongaguigam ( 禪家龜鑑 )", a guide to Seon practice which is studied by Korean monks even today.

It was also a reflection of the influence of Zen Buddhism, which Cage studied since the late 1940s.

Van de Wetering studied Zen under the guidance of Oda Sessō, together with Walter Nowick, at Daitoku-ji.

Steve Jobs, the now deceased CEO of Apple, wanted to travel to Eihei-ji to study Sōtō Zen, but was dissuaded by his teacher Kobun Chino Otogawa in Los Altos, California who had studied for three years there.

Shōkoku-ji, the Zen temple where Sesshū studied painting under Shūbun

There, Sesshū studied Zen under Shunrin Suto (（ 春林 ）), a famous Zen master, and painting under Tenshō Shūbun, the most highly regarded Japanese painter of the time.

During his career, Smith not only studied, but practiced Vedanta ( studying under Swami Satprakashananda, founder of the St. Louis Vedanta Center ), Zen Buddhism ( studying under Goto Zuigan ), and Sufi Islam for more than ten years each.

He studied Rinzai Zen, attaining the title of roshi.

Zen monks such as Shunjo studied in China and the copybooks that he brought with him are regarded to be highly influential for the karayō tradition of the time, expressing a clear kaisho style.

While in Korea, Blyth began to learn Japanese and Chinese, and studied Zen under the master Hanayama Taigi of Myōshin-ji Keijo Betsuin ( Seoul ).

The next year Nyogen went to Kamakura to Engaku-ji where he studied Zen under Rinzai master Soyen Shaku.

He has measured the skinfolds ( the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades ) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the `` mealie-meal '' eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory.

He likely would have studied under masters such as Peter Abelard, Gilbert of Poitiers and Thierry of Chartres.

Arthur Aikin studied chemistry under Joseph Priestley in the New College at Hackney, and gave attention to the practical applications of the science.

When they reached adulthood, Aedesia accompanied her sons to Athens where they studied under Proclus.

The most famous pupil of Ammonius Saccas was Plotinus who studied under Ammonius for eleven years.

Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.

From 1763 to 1767, he studied geology under Jean-Étienne Guettard.

After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel.

Adalbert was a well-educated man, having studied for about ten years ( 970-80 ) in Magdeburg under Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg.

There he studied under some of the finest Jewish educators of the time: Chanoch Albeck, Ismar Elbogen, Julius Guttmann, and Leo Baeck.

He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino ( assisting on the Library of St. Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice ) and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo.

He studied under a number of teachers, developing his insight into the problem of suffering.

From 1899 to 1903, Bartók studied piano under István Thomán, a former student of Franz Liszt, and composition under János Koessler at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest.

Hummel studied under Haydn as well ; he was a friend to Beethoven and Schubert.

Several phenomena studied in the context of nanotechnology come under the purview of condensed matter physics.

John Dewey studied under Peirce at Johns Hopkins and, from 1916 onwards, Dewey's writings repeatedly mention Peirce with deference.

An Augustinian, he had studied theology in Paris under St. Thomas of Aquinas to become one of the most authoritative thinkers of his time, and tutor to French king Philip IV the Fair, ( 1268-29 November 1314 ).

Twelve students who studied under St. Finnian became known as the Twelve Apostles of Ireland ; Columba was one of them.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.