Peter Coyote

Peter has been around the SFZC for decades. He has his own group now. He was ordained as a priest and received transmission from Lew Richmond. Check him out at Peter Coyote dot com - teaching, books, acting, etc

Zen in the Vernacular2024 - Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is - a new book by Peter Coyote. Amazon link.

Cuke Podcast with Peter 🔊
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Edward Conze’s The Psychology of Mass Propaganda with an afterword by Peter Coyote.

10-16-2017 - Peter's comment on the SFZC ban on Edward Brown teachings there

6-12-17 - Sixteen minute audio of interview with Peter on his path from theater to Zen

5-06-15 - Pacific Sun Interview with Peter Coyote by Steve Helig in Marin County, California. - thanks Katrinka

5-02-15 - Peter's new book: The Rainman's Third Cure: an Irregular Education

12-14-12 - Peter Coyote on Democracy Now

8-20-11 - Congratulations to Peter Coyote who was ordained as a Soto Zen priest today by Lew Richmond, head teacher of the Vimala Sangha


Peter Coyote dot com

Peter's Facebook Page

Peter's Wikipedia page

IMDB Bio

IMDB main page


Coyote, Peter Sleeping Where I Fall, Counterpoint Press, 1999.

Go to excerpt about the Human Be-in mentioning Shunryu Suzuki


Amazon link for audio book of Peter reading Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Peter Coyote dot com page for this audio book

Peter sends a Memorial Eko for Shunryu Suzuki


Peter reads Zen Flesh, Zen Bones


INQUIRY INTO THE GREAT MATTER
A HISTORY OF ZEN BUDDHISM
A FILM Produced and Directed by James Zito
Narration by Peter Coyote


Lay Ordination report

SWEEPING ZEN INTERVIEW, JUNE 2008

Shambhala Sun interview with Peter Nov. 1998

A Conversation with Gary Snyder & Peter Coyote from 1999 Poetry Flash


Where the Counterculture Prevails - Peter Coyote on YouTube


Peter's blurbs for

Taigen Dan Leighton's Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression . Revised Edition. Formerly published as Bodhisattva Archetypes: Classic Buddhist Guides to Awakening and Their Modern Expression. - (Wisdom Publications,2003)

"Such a useful book. Mr. Leighton clarifies and explains aspects of Buddhism which are often mysterious to the uninformed. The concept of the Bodhisattva--one who postpones personal salvation to serve others--is the perfect antidote to today's spiritual materialism where "enlightened selfishness" has been enshrined as dogma for the greedy. This book is useful as a fine axe."

--Peter Coyote, actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall

Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan

"The results of Chadwick's cultural collision with Japan are funny, insightful, revelatory and intriguing as hell. Don't let the fantastic cover fool you - this is a ripe book that goes to the core. The irreverence was also a friggin relief." -- Peter Coyote, actor and writer, in The Whole Earth Review

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