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Roshi Ellen Jikai Birx
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Contact Info
- New River Zen Community  
- 1360 Sandy Cir
- Blacksburg, VA 24060
- United States
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Biographical Info
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Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi is a Zen teacher and dharma successor of Robert Jinsen Kennedy, SJ, Roshi in the White Plum lineage. She holds a PhD in psychiatric nursing from the University of Texas at Austin and is professor emerita, Radford University, Radford, VA. She is co-founder of New River Zen Community in Blacksburg, VA and author of three books including Selfless Love (Wisdom, 2014) and Embracing the Inconceivable: Interspiritual Practice of Zen and Christianity (Orbis, 2020).