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Jan Chozen Bays was born on 9 August, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American Buddhist abess. Discover Jan Chozen Bays's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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79 years old |
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Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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United States
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Jan Chozen Bays Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Jan Chozen Bays's Husband?
Her husband is Hogen Bays
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Jan Chozen Bays Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jan Chozen Bays worth at the age of 79 years old? Jan Chozen Bays’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from United States. We have estimated Jan Chozen Bays's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Jan Chozen Bays (born August 9, 1945), is a Zen teacher, author, mindful eating educator, and pediatrician specializing in work with abused children.
Jan Chozen Bays was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 9, 1945.
She grew up in East Greenbush, New York and spent two years in Korea.
She received her undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College and earned her medical degree at the University of California at San Diego, specializing in pediatrics.
Bays began practicing Zen in a group that included Charlotte Joko Beck, Anne Seisen Saunders, and Jerry Shishin Wick in San Diego.
She eventually moved to the Zen Center of Los Angeles to study with the Japanese Zen teacher Taizan Maezumi Roshi.
She had an extramarital affair with him, which she admitted, which devastated his wife and children.
She served as the physician at the Zen Center’s community medical clinic.
She was a student of Maezumi from 1977 until his death in 1995.
In the 1980s and 1990s, she conducted the medical examinations of thousands of infants and children who had been abused or killed and regularly appeared in court as an expert witness.
She received dharma transmission from him in 1983 becoming his 4th dharma heir and, after Joko Beck, the second woman.
With her husband Laren Hogen Bays, since 1985 she has been a teacher at the Zen Community of Oregon, a Zen center or sangha in Portland, Oregon.
In 1987, she helped to found Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Services (CARES) Northwest, now one of the oldest and largest child abuse assessment centers in the United States.
From 1990 until the present she has trained with Shodo Harada, a Rinzai Zen teacher.
Chozen and Hogen Bays are also co-founders and co-abbots of Great Vow Zen Monastery of Clatskanie, Oregon, which opened in 2002.
In 2011, Bays founded Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, Oregon.
Bays is a pediatrician and nationally recognized expert on child abuse.
