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Rafe Martin


Name:    Rafe Martin
Dharma Name:    Jnan
Title:    Sensei
Preferred Name:    Rafe
Organization:    Endless Path Zendo
Lineage:    Kapleau
Rafe Martin, teacher at Endless Path Zendo, began formal Zen practice in 1970. A disciple of Philip Kapleau, after Kapleau Roshi's retirement he practiced for a time 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 Sangha teacher. Rafe received full lay ordination in 2009, inka (recognition of completion of the Diamond Sangha koan curriculum) and permission to teach in 2012, and Dharma transmission, becoming an 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. www.endlesspathzendo.org