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John Daido Loori was born on 14 June, 1930 in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S., is an American Buddhist writer (1931–2009). Discover John Daido Loori's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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John Daido Loori (June 14, 1931 – October 9, 2009) was a Zen Buddhist rōshi who served as the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order and CEO of Dharma Communications.
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1947 to 1952.
Later, after studying at Rutgers, he worked as a chemist in the food industry and led the American Civil Liberties Union in Orange and Sullivan Counties in New York.
As an adult he distanced himself from Catholicism and explored a variety of other religions.
Then, in 1971, he attended a workshop given by the photographer Minor White.
Loori came to study photography under White until his death and also learned meditation from him.
In 1972 Daido Loori began his formal Zen practice, studying in New York under Soen Nakagawa and then in California under Taizan Maezumi, Roshi.
He has also held various other shows and workshops on photography, including positions at Naropa University starting in 1974 and the Synechia Arts Center located in Middletown, New York; his works have been published by Aperture and Time-Life.
His book, Hearing with the Eye: Photographs from Point Lobos, features Loori's abstract nature photography interwoven with commentary on Teachings of the Insentient by Eihei Dogen.
Loori founded Dharma Communications as a way to communicate the dharma of the Mountains and Rivers Order.
Dharma Communications publishes a Buddhist quarterly titled the Mountain Record, various audio-visual materials, and has also published several books by Daido Loori.
According to Charles S. Prebish, Dharma Communications is "one of the most efficient and successful publishers of Buddhist materials on the continent, and a place where practitioners can learn how to cultivate both mindfulness and compassion in front of a computer."
In 1980 Loori purchased 230 acre in New York which today serves as the site for Zen Mountain Monastery.
In 1983 he was made a Zen priest by Maezumi and in 1986 was given Shiho (or, dharma transmission) by him.
Daido Loori received Shiho (dharma transmission) from Taizan Maezumi in 1986 and also received a Dendo Kyoshi certificate formally from the Soto school of Japan in 1994.
In addition to his role as a Zen Buddhist priest, Loori was an exhibited photographer and author of more than twenty books and was an avid naturalist.
In 1997, he received dharma transmission in the Harada-Yasutani and Inzan lineages of Rinzai Zen as well.
In 1997, he received dharma transmission in the Harada-Yasutani and Inzan lineages of Rinzai Zen as well.
According to author Richard Hughes, this made Loori "one of three Western dharma-holders in both the Soto and Rinzai schools."
Loori was a professional nature photographer, having once exhibited his work at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York.
In October 2009, he stepped down as abbot citing health issues.
Days later, Zen Mountain Monastery announced that his death was imminent.
On October 9, 2009, at 7:30 a.m. he died of lung cancer in Mount Tremper, New York.
John Daido Loori was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised Roman Catholic.
As a child Loori loved photographing things, once using his family's bathroom as a makeshift dark room.