David Chadwick (writer)
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David Chadwick (born 1945) grew up in Texas and moved to California to study Zen as a student of Shunryu Suzuki in 1966. Chadwick was ordained as a Buddhist priest in 1971, shortly before Suzuki's death. He assisted in the operation of the San Francisco Zen Center for a number of years.
Chadwick has two children and has married and remarried. He has written several books and continues to "dabble in Buddhism and related matters".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Among his works is Crooked Cucumber, the biography of Shunryu Suzuki.
Works
- Chadwick, David (1994). Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan. Republished by Shambhala Publications (2007). Template:ISBN. Originally Penguin Arkana.
- Chadwick, David (1999). Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki. Broadway Books. Template:ISBN. Ebook, audiobook, Shambhala Publications
- Chadwick, David (2007). Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shambhala Publications (2007) Template:ISBN. audiobook. Originally To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki. (2001) Broadway Books
- Chadwick, David (2019). To Find the Girl from Perth. Cuke Press. Originally (2008) Speir Publishing
- Chadwick, David (2019) (text), Atkeison, Andrew (illustrations). Color Dreams for To Find the Girl from Perth. Cuke Press. Originally (2009) Speir Publishing
- Chadwick, David (2019) The, the Book. Cuke Press. Template:ISBN Originally Chadwick, Chavid (2011). The. Speir Publishing
- Chadwick, David (2011). Afterword to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind 40th Anniversary Issue. Shambhala Publications. Template:ISBN
- Chadwick, David (2020) Afterword to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind 50th Anniversary Issue. Shambhala Publications. Template:ISBN
- Chadwick, David (2018) Forward, Editor. A Brief History of Tassajara: From Native American Sweat Lodges to Pioneering Zen Monastery. Cuke Press
- Shunryu, Suzuki; Chadwick, David (editor) (2021). Zen Is Right Now: More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki. Shambhala Publications. Template:ISBN
- Chadwick, David (2025). Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West—The First Year, 1967. Monkfish Book Publishing. Template:ISBN
References
External links
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- ZMBM dot net - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind site
- Defuser Music dot com - DC's songs
- Hub for DC nonZense URLs such as the one below
- (To Find the) Girl From Perth dot com - DC's illustrated novel with songs
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