Maria Teresa Shōgetsu Avila
Maria Teresa Shōgetsu Avila
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Maria Teresa Shōgetsu Avila is a Sōtō Zen nun in the Deshimaru–Zeisler lineage, ordained as a monastic in 1994 by Stéphane Kōsen Thibaut and now one of three teachers to whom Yvon Myōken Bec conferred dharma transmission in 2016, recognised by the canonical Mokushō Zen House Budapest record as one of the formal continuing successors of "the Deshimaru–Zeisler lineage"[1][2].
Shōgetsu is based at the Geneva Zen dōjō, where she serves as shusso (head practitioner) for sesshin, and is the founding teacher of Kannonji, a meditation centre with a strong dimension of social engagement[2]. From this Genevese base she has extended her teaching to Latin America, accompanying the inauguration of the Senkuji temple in the Ecuadorian Amazon in 2018–2019 — a project built jointly by the Hungarian and Latin-American sanghas of Mokushō Zen House — and leading sesshin and teisho there in subsequent years[1]. Her work in Spanish, French, and English-speaking communities makes her one of the principal carriers of the Zeisler line into Hispanophone Zen.
Alongside Vuillemin (Geneva), Nedelcu (Bucharest), and Kálmán (Budapest), Shōgetsu is one of the four 2007–2016 shihō recipients on whom the continuing institutional life of the Mokushō Zen House network rests[1].
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Master Record Sources
- biographyMokusho Zen House Budapest — Our Story (Étienne Mokushō Zeisler & the Eastern European mission)
In 2016 monk Myoken gave Dharma transmission to three disciples in the Deshimaru-Zeisler lineage: Maria Teresa Shogetsu Avila, Ionut Koshin Nedelcu and László Toryu Kálmán. … 2018–2019 Senkuji temple in Ecuador is built and opened by Hungarian and Chilean disciples.
- biographyWikipedia - Zen Lineage Charts
Maria Teresa Shogetsu Avila — Zen Buddhist nun and teacher in the Deshimaru-Zeisler lineage, ordained in 1994 by Master Kosen, practises at the Geneva Zen dojo and serves as shusso, founder of Kannonji.