André Ryūjō Meissner

André Ryūjō Meissner is a French Sōtō Zen monk in the Deshimaru lineage^[1]. He was a direct disciple of Taisen Deshimaru — the Kōsen Sangha shihō roster expressly frames the September 1993 transmission to him as "in the name of Master Deshimaru", placing him among the founding generation of Deshimaru's Paris-era ordainees^[1].

In September 1993 he was one of three of Deshimaru's direct disciples — alongside Bárbara Kōsen Richaudeau and Édouard Shinryū Bacgrabski — to receive shihō from Stéphane Kōsen Thibaut, conferred per the official Kōsen Sangha roster: "In September 1993, Master Kosen Thibaut gave the shiho in the name of Master Deshimaru to some of his master's disciples: Barbara Kosen Richaudeau, André Ryujo Meissner, and Édouard Shinryu Bacgrabski."^[1] He has subsequently continued as a teacher within the AZI / Kosen-Sangha sesshin circuit^[1].