# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kyozan-joshu-sasaki
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:33:57.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kyozan-joshu-sasaki"
name: "Kyozan Joshu Sasaki"
slug: "kyozan-joshu-sasaki"
description: "Kyozan Joshu Sasaki , Roshi was a Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher who lived in Los Angeles, United States since 1962. He sought to tailor his teachings to westerners, opening dozens of centres, and founding serving as head abbot of the Mount Baldy Zen Center, near Mount Baldy in California, and of the Rinzai-Ji order of affiliated Zen centers. Sasaki Roshi was one of the most influential but also controversial Zen masters in America, \"coercing hundreds of [students] into having sexual contact with him\" since at least the early 1970s, including using threats of expulsion."
tagline: "Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher (1907-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Gilliland_%26_Joshu_Sasaki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1907-04-01"
deathDate: "2014-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.86
  momentum:             11.62159576652418
  historical:           7.520774666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "佐佐木承周"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BE%C3%B3%C5%A1%C3%BA_Sasaki"
    title: "Džóšú Sasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyozan_Joshu_Sasaki"
    title: "Kyozan Joshu Sasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyozan_Joshu_Sasaki"
    title: "Kyozan Joshu Sasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyozan_Joshu_Sasaki"
    title: "Kyozan Joshu Sasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyozan_Joshu_Sasaki"
    title: "Kyozan Joshu Sasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyozan_J%C5%8Dsh%C5%AB_Sasaki"
    title: "Kyozan Jōshū Sasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyozan_Joshu_Sasaki"
    title: "Kyozan Joshu Sasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%98%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%8F%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%83_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Кјозан Џошу Сасаки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q717973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump