Reiseki

Jean-Pierre Reiseki Romain (b. 1956) is a French Sōtō Zen monk and dharma heir of Roland Yuno Rech, senior teacher at the Dōjō Zen de Paris^[1][2]. He discovered zazen in 1981 at La Gendronnière in the lifetime of Taisen Deshimaru himself, received the bodhisattva precepts in 1984 from Étienne Mokushō Zeisler, and was ordained a monk in 1994 by Philippe Reiryū Coupey — making him one of the few living teachers in continuous practice from the founding generation of the AZI through three of Deshimaru's principal heirs^[2][3].

In the summer of 2022 Romain received shihō from Roland Yuno Rech at La Gendronnière, formally joining the Yuno Rech line of successors^[1][2]. He gives teisho regularly at the Dōjō Zen de Paris, where he is a member of the teaching council, and in 2019 he founded the École Internationale de Sumi-e in Paris, paralleling Beppe Mokuza Signoritti's ink-painting work in Italy and bringing brush-and-zazen practice to a wider Parisian public^[2][3].