About Jiryu Mark

Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Ordained a priest in 2002 and serving as shuso in 2008, he has lived full-time in temples and monasteries in the U.S. and Japan since the age of twenty, 1996. To learn more about Jiryu, and to contact him, click here.

The Shores of Zen website offers some of his talks, classes, writings, and projects. It also showcases the excellent Dharma Folk tunes of Ben Gustin.