Renowned teacher Philip Kapleau wrote 'Three Pillars.'
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0507LQ45VBK_news.shtml(May 7, 2004) — Philip Kapleau, founder of the Rochester Zen Center, who in the 1950s traded an American commuter train for a monastery in Japan, died Thursday afternoon, surrounded by friends and family at the center on Arnold Park.
He was 91 and had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for many years.
Born in 1912, and a native of a working-class section of New Haven, Conn., he has long been regarded as one of the foremost teachers of Zen Buddhism in the Western world.
After World War II, Mr. Kapleau worked as a court reporter at the military tribunals in Germany and Japan, a racking experience that later drove him onto a spiritual path.
His 1965 book, The Three Pillars of Zen, introduced many Americans to Zen Buddhism, a traditional Japanese religious practice of disciplined meditation and self-examination. It is still considered a seminal text.
He wrote many other books.
It's a great loss.
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